Bristol City 2-1 Sunderland: result and report

Championship · Friday 18 April 2025

Result

Bristol City 2-1 Sunderland

Championship · Friday 18 April 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Bristol City · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Bristol City 2-1 Sunderland: match report

Bristol City won against Sunderland 2-1 in the Championship on Friday 18 April 2025. The half-time score was 0-1.

Eliezer Mayenda opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Bristol City's goals came from Rob Dickie (55') and Ross McCrorie (76'). Sunderland scored through Eliezer Mayenda (31').

Discipline: Bristol City received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Bristol City were 5th on 64 points from 42 and Sunderland 4th on 76 points from 42. Bristol City went on to finish that season 6th with 68 points, and Sunderland 4th with 82.

Bristol City lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Sunderland in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ross McCrorie of Bristol City (8.8), ahead of Jason Knight (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Bristol City wins, 4 draws and 1 for Sunderland.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Red card · Trai HumeSunderland
  • 31'Goal · Eliezer MayendaSunderland · 0-1
  • 48'Yellow card · Cameron PringBristol City
  • 55'Goal · Rob DickieBristol City · 1-1
  • 66'Yellow card · Anthony PattersonSunderland
  • 76'Goal · Ross McCrorieBristol City · 2-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Leo HjeldeSunderland
  • 89'Yellow card · Joe AndersonSunderland

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Bristol City 2, draws 4, Sunderland 1.

Team news

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Bristol City line-up (3-4-2-1)

Max O'Leary, George Tanner, Rob Dickie, Zak Vyner, Ross McCrorie, Joe Williams, Jason Knight, Cameron Pring, Max Bird, George Earthy, Nahki Wells

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

Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Chris Mepham, Luke O'Nien, Leo Hjelde, Dan Neil, Enzo Le Fée, Patrick Roberts, Chris Rigg, Tommy Watson, Eliezer Mayenda Dossou