Newcastle United 3-2 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 23 October 2005

Result

Newcastle United 3-2 Sunderland

Premier League · Sunday 23 October 2005, 12:30 UTC · half-time 2-2

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Newcastle United 3-2 Sunderland: match report

Newcastle United defeated Sunderland 3-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 23 October 2005. It was 2-2 at half-time.

Shola Ameobi opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Newcastle United's goals came from Shola Ameobi (34'), Shola Ameobi (37') and Emre Belözoglu (63'). Sunderland scored through Liam Lawrence (35') and Stephen Elliott (41').

Discipline: Newcastle United received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Newcastle United were 13th on 9 points from 9 and Sunderland 19th on 5 points from 9. Newcastle United went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Newcastle United wins, 2 draws and 1 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Yellow card · Dean WhiteheadSunderland
  • 22'Yellow card · Tommy MillerSunderland
  • 34'Goal · Shola AmeobiNewcastle United · 1-0
  • 35'Goal · Liam LawrenceSunderland · 1-1
  • 37'Goal · Shola AmeobiNewcastle United · 2-1
  • 41'Goal · Stephen ElliottSunderland · 2-2
  • 63'Goal · Emre BelözogluNewcastle United · 3-2

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Newcastle United 3, draws 2, Sunderland 1.

Team news

Newcastle United line-up

Shay Given, Stephen Carr, Jean-Alain Boumsong Somkong, Peter Ramage, Steven Taylor, Charles N'Zogbia, Shola Ameobi, N. Solano, Emre Belözoğlu, Alan Shearer, Scott Parker

Sunderland line-up

Gary Breen, Steven Caldwell, Nyron Nosworthy, Justin Hoyte, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Stephen Elliott, Andy Gray, Kelvin Davis, Andy Welsh, Tommy Miller