Everton 2-0 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 27 January 2010

Result

Everton 2-0 Sunderland

Premier League · Wednesday 27 January 2010, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Everton 2-0 Sunderland: match report

Everton defeated Sunderland 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday 27 January 2010. The half-time score was 2-0.

Tim Cahill opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Everton's goals came from Tim Cahill (7') and L. Donovan (19'). Sunderland did not score.

Discipline: Everton received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Everton were 10th on 26 points from 21 and Sunderland 13th on 23 points from 21. Everton went on to finish that season 8th with 61 points, and Sunderland 13th with 44.

Everton lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sunderland in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 Everton wins, 2 draws and 0 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Tim CahillEverton · 1-0
  • 19'Goal · L. DonovanEverton · 2-0
  • 48'Yellow card · Boudewijn ZendenSunderland

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Everton 8, draws 2, Sunderland 0.

Team news

Everton expected line-up (4-4-2)

Tim Howard, Leighton Baines, Lucas Neill, Tony Hibbert, Joseph Yobo, Steven Pienaar, Marouane Fellaini, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Tim Cahill, Louis Saha, Johnny Heitinga

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

Craig Gordon, George McCartney, Nyron Nosworthy, Kieran Richardson, John Mensah, Lorik Cana, Matthew Kilgallon, Boudewijn Zenden, Jordan Henderson, Lee Cattermole, Darren Bent