Bristol City 2-3 Sunderland: result and report

Championship · Saturday 6 August 2022

Result

Bristol City 2-3 Sunderland

Championship · Saturday 6 August 2022, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Bristol City · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Bristol City 2-3 Sunderland: match report

Bristol City were beaten by Sunderland 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 6 August 2022. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Ellis Simms opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Bristol City's goals came from Andreas Weimann (10') and Chris Martin (51'). Sunderland scored through Ellis Simms (4'), Ellis Simms (53') and Ross Stewart (72').

Discipline: Bristol City received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

Bristol City went on to finish that season 14th with 59 points, and Sunderland 6th with 72.

Bristol City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Sunderland in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ellis Simms of Sunderland (8.8), ahead of Alex Pritchard (8.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Bristol City win, 1 draw and 0 for Sunderland.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Yellow card · Corry EvansSunderland
  • 4'Goal · Ellis SimmsSunderland · 0-1
  • 10'Goal · Andreas WeimannBristol City · 1-1
  • 20'Yellow card · D. CirkinSunderland
  • 27'Yellow card · Joe WilliamsBristol City
  • 51'Goal · Chris MartinBristol City · 2-1
  • 53'Goal · Ellis SimmsSunderland · 2-2
  • 55'Yellow card · Mark SykesBristol City
  • 72'Goal · Ross StewartSunderland · 2-3

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Bristol City 1, draws 1, Sunderland 0.

Team news

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Bristol City line-up (3-5-2)

Daniel Bentley, Zak Vyner, Kal Naismith, Rob Atkinson, Mark Sykes, Han-Noah Massengo, Joe Williams, Jay Dasilva, Alex Scott, Andreas Weimann, Chris Martin

Sunderland line-up (3-4-1-2)

Anthony Patterson, Dan Ballard, Danny Batth, Dennis Cirkin, Lynden Gooch, Josef Dvornik, Dan Neil, Jack Clarke, Alex Pritchard, Ellis Simms, Ross Stewart