Bristol Rovers 0-2 Sunderland: result and report

League One · Saturday 23 February 2019

Result

Bristol Rovers 0-2 Sunderland

League One · Saturday 23 February 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Bristol Rovers · Sunderland · League One predictions

Bristol Rovers 0-2 Sunderland: match report

Bristol Rovers lost to Sunderland 0-2 in the League One on Saturday 23 February 2019. The half-time score was 0-1.

Luke O'Nien opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Bristol Rovers did not score. Sunderland scored through Luke O'Nien (25') and Aiden McGeady (55').

Discipline: Bristol Rovers received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bristol Rovers were 19th on 34 points from 32 and Sunderland 3rd on 62 points from 32. Bristol Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 54 points, and Sunderland 4th with 89.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Bristol Rovers wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sunderland.

Going into the match Bristol Rovers's last five read D-D-W-D-L and Sunderland's W-D-D-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Yellow card · Luke O'NienSunderland
  • 25'Goal · Luke O'NienSunderland · 0-1
  • 49'Yellow card · Reece JamesSunderland
  • 55'Goal · Aiden McGeadySunderland · 0-2
  • 70'Yellow card · Jimmy DunneSunderland

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Bristol Rovers 0, draws 0, Sunderland 1.

Team news

Bristol Rovers line-up

Jack Bonham, James Clarke, Tareiq Holmes-Dennis, Abumere Tafadzwa Ogogo, Tom Lockyer, Tony Craig, Alex Rodman, Ollie Clarke, Gavin Reilly, Jonson Clarke-Harris, Liam Sercombe

Sunderland line-up

Jon McLaughlin, Luke O'Nien, Reece James, Lee Cattermole, Jimmy Dunne, Tom Flanagan, Duncan Watmore, Grant Leadbitter, Will Grigg, George Honeyman, Aiden McGeady