Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Sunderland: result and report
League One · Sunday 29 December 2019
Result
Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Sunderland
League One · Sunday 29 December 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Sunderland: match report
Doncaster Rovers were beaten by Sunderland 1-2 in the League One on Sunday 29 December 2019. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Lynden Gooch opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Doncaster Rovers's goal came from Jon Taylor (40'). Sunderland scored through Lynden Gooch (6') and Chris Maguire (61').
Discipline: Doncaster Rovers received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Doncaster Rovers were 14th on 28 points from 19 and Sunderland 15th on 28 points from 20. Doncaster Rovers went on to finish that season 9th with 54 points, and Sunderland 8th with 59.
Doncaster Rovers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sunderland in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Chris Maguire of Sunderland (8.9), ahead of Jon Taylor (7.8).
Going into the match Doncaster Rovers's last five read W-D-L-D-L and Sunderland's D-D-L-L-D.
Key events
- 6'Goal · Lynden Gooch
- 34'Yellow card · J. Lynch
- 40'Goal · Jon Taylor
- 55'Yellow card · Lynden Gooch
- 61'Goal · Chris Maguire
- 70'Yellow card · A. Öztürk
- 74'Yellow card · Cameron John
- 90+1'Yellow card · Chris Maguire
Team news
Doncaster Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Seny Dieng, Brad Halliday, Tom Anderson, Joe Wright, Cameron John, Ben Whiteman, Madger Gomes, Kieran Sadlier, James Coppinger, Jon Taylor, Niall Ennis
Sunderland line-up (3-4-3)
Jon McLaughlin, Jordan Willis, Alim Öztürk, Joel Lynch, Luke O'Nien, George Dobson, Max Power, Denver Hume, Chris Maguire, Charlie Wyke, Lynden Gooch