Sunderland 3-1 Stoke City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 4 October 2014
Result
Sunderland 3-1 Stoke City
Premier League · Saturday 4 October 2014, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Sunderland 3-1 Stoke City: match report
Sunderland beat Stoke City 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 October 2014. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Connor Wickham opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Connor Wickham (4'), Steven Fletcher (23') and Steven Fletcher (79'). Stoke City scored through Charlie Adam (15').
Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Stoke City received 6 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 15th on 5 points from 6 and Stoke City 11th on 8 points from 6. Sunderland went on to finish that season 17th with 38 points, and Stoke City 9th with 53.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Stoke City in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Sunderland wins, 3 draws and 3 for Stoke City.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read D-D-D-L-D and Stoke City's W-D-L-W-D.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Connor Wickham
- 15'Goal · Charlie Adam
- 23'Goal · Steven Fletcher
- 27'Yellow card · Muniesa
- 62'Yellow card · Oussama Assaidi
- 62'Yellow card · Oussama Assaidi
- 64'Yellow card · Billy Jones
- 66'Yellow card · Phil Bardsley
- 67'Yellow card · Patrick van Aanholt
- 70'Yellow card · Steven Fletcher
- 79'Goal · Steven Fletcher
- 90'Yellow card · Bojan Krkic
- 90+1'Yellow card · Bojan Krkic
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Vito Mannone, John O'Shea, Santiago Vergini, Patrick van Aanholt, Wes Brown, Jack Rodwell, Lee Cattermole, Sebastian Larsson, Will Buckley, Connor Wickham, Adam Johnson
Stoke City line-up (4-4-2)
Asmir Begović, Phil Bardsley, Ryan Shawcross, Marc Wilson, Marc Muniesa, Steven Nzonzi, Glenn Whelan, Marko Arnautovic, Charlie Adam, Victor Moses, Peter Crouch