Sunderland 1-0 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 1 January 2012
Result
Sunderland 1-0 Manchester City
Premier League · Sunday 1 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Sunderland 1-0 Manchester City: match report
Sunderland won against Manchester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 1 January 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Ji Dong-Won of Sunderland in the 90th minute.
Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sunderland were 15th on 18 points from 18 and Manchester City 1st on 45 points from 18. Sunderland went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Manchester City 1st with 89.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 1 draw and 8 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read D-W-L-W-L and Manchester City's D-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 8'Yellow card · N. de Jong
- 66'Yellow card · Sebastian Larsson
- 90+3'Goal · Ji Dong-Won
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)
Simon Mignolet, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Lee Cattermole, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Jack Colback, James McClean, Stéphane Sessègnon, Nicklas Bendtner, David Vaughan
Manchester City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Shay Given, Micah Richards, Joleon Lescott, Wayne Bridge, Nigel de Jong, Gareth Barry, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Stephen Ireland, Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Alberto Tevez