Hull City 1-4 Sunderland: result and report

Hull City 1-4 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 20 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Hull City were beaten by Sunderland 1-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 20 December 2008. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Steed Malbranque opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Hull City's goal came from Nicholas Jonathan Barmby (19'). Sunderland scored through Steed Malbranque (10'), an own goal by Kamil Zayatte (78'), Kenwyne Jones (84') and Djibril Cissé (90').

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

Going into the game Hull City were 6th on 27 points from 17 and Sunderland 18th on 18 points from 17. Hull City went on to finish that season 17th with 35 points, and Sunderland 16th with 36.

Hull City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sunderland in a 4-4-2.

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