Queens Park Rangers 2-3 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 21 December 2011

Result

Queens Park Rangers 2-3 Sunderland

Premier League · Wednesday 21 December 2011, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Queens Park Rangers · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Queens Park Rangers 2-3 Sunderland: match report

Queens Park Rangers lost to Sunderland 2-3 in the Premier League on Wednesday 21 December 2011. The half-time score was 0-1.

Nicklas Bendtner opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from Heidar Helguson (63') and Jamie Mackie (67'). Sunderland scored through Nicklas Bendtner (19'), Stéphane Sessègnon (53') and Wes Brown (89').

Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 15th on 16 points from 16 and Sunderland 17th on 14 points from 16. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 17th with 37 points, and Sunderland 13th with 45.

Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Sunderland in a 4-4-1-1.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · Nicklas BendtnerSunderland · 0-1
  • 53'Goal · Stéphane SessègnonSunderland · 0-2
  • 63'Goal · Heidar HelgusonQueens Park Rangers · 1-2
  • 67'Goal · Jamie MackieQueens Park Rangers · 2-2
  • 68'Yellow card · Stéphane SessègnonSunderland
  • 80'Yellow card · Luke YoungQueens Park Rangers
  • 85'Yellow card · L. CattermoleSunderland
  • 89'Goal · Wes BrownSunderland · 2-3
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Alejandro FaurlinQueens Park Rangers

Team news

Unavailable

Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-4-1-1)

Paddy Kenny, Danny Gabbidon, Armand Traore, Matthew Connolly, Luke Young, Alejandro Faurlin, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jamie Mackie, Heidar Helguson, Shaun Derry, Joey Barton

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

Keiren Westwood, Phil Bardsley, Wes Brown, Kieran Richardson, John O'Shea, Titus Bramble, Lee Cattermole, Sebastian Larsson, Stéphane Sessègnon, Nicklas Bendtner, David Vaughan