Sunderland 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 11 November 2023

Result

Sunderland 3-1 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 11 November 2023, 12:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

Sunderland · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Sunderland 3-1 Birmingham City: match report

Sunderland defeated Birmingham City 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 11 November 2023. The half-time score was 1-1.

Jobe Bellingham opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Jobe Bellingham (17'), an own goal by Dion Sanderson (57') and Adil Aouchiche (76'). Birmingham City scored through Koji Miyoshi (30').

Discipline: Sunderland received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sunderland were 8th on 23 points from 15 and Birmingham City 15th on 19 points from 15. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Birmingham City 22nd with 50.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Anthony Patterson of Sunderland (8.1), level with Jack Clarke (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Sunderland wins, 3 draws and 3 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Jobe BellinghamSunderland · 1-0
  • 18'Yellow card · Ethan LairdBirmingham City
  • 30'Goal · Koji MiyoshiBirmingham City · 1-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Patrick RobertsSunderland
  • 45+4'Yellow card · Trai HumeSunderland
  • 46'Yellow card · Jordan JamesBirmingham City
  • 57'Own goal · Dion SandersonSunderland · 2-1
  • 76'Goal · Adil AouchicheSunderland · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sunderland 4, draws 3, Birmingham City 3.

Team news

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

Anthony Patterson, Niall Huggins, Jenson Seelt, Nectarios Triantis, Trai Hume, Pierre Ekwah, Patrick Roberts, Dan Neil, Jobe Bellingham, Jack Clarke, Nazariy Rusyn

Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)

John Ruddy, Ethan Laird, Dion Sanderson, Emanuel Aiwu, Cody Drameh, Jordan James, Ivan Šunjić, Koji Miyoshi, Oliver Burke, Juninho Bacuna, Jay Stansfield