Sunderland 0-3 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 31 August 2008

Result

Sunderland 0-3 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 31 August 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Sunderland 0-3 Manchester City: match report

Sunderland were beaten by Manchester City 0-3 in the Premier League on Sunday 31 August 2008. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Stephen Ireland opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Sunderland did not score. Manchester City scored through Stephen Ireland (45+1'), Shaun Wright-Phillips (50') and Shaun Wright-Phillips (58').

Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sunderland were 15th on 3 points from 2 and Manchester City 13th on 3 points from 2. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 36 points, and Manchester City 10th with 50.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 0 draws and 7 for Manchester City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 31'Yellow card · Micah RichardsManchester City
  • 33'Yellow card · Vincent KompanyManchester City
  • 45+1'Goal · Stephen IrelandManchester City · 0-1
  • 50'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 0-2
  • 58'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 0-3
  • 59'Yellow card · Phil BardsleySunderland
  • 65'Yellow card · David HealySunderland
  • 74'Yellow card · Kieran RichardsonSunderland

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Sunderland 1, draws 0, Manchester City 7.

Team news

Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Craig Gordon, Phil Bardsley, Nyron Nosworthy, Kieran Richardson, Danny Collins, Pascal Chimbonda, Steed Malbranque, Grant Leadbitter, Andy Reid, Djibril Cissé, El-Hadji Diouf

Manchester City expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

Joe Hart, Vedran Ćorluka, Martin Petrov, Michael Johnson, Gelson Fernandes, Benjamin Mwaruwari, Elano, Richard Dunne, Sun Jihai