Sunderland 2-1 Wigan Athletic: result and report

Sunderland 2-1 Wigan Athletic

Championship · Saturday 15 October 2022, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Sunderland beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 15 October 2022. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Charlie Wyke opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Sunderland's goals came from E. Embleton (54') and D. Cirkin (72'). Wigan Athletic scored through Charlie Wyke (44').

Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sunderland were 14th on 17 points from 13 and Wigan Athletic 10th on 19 points from 13. Sunderland went on to finish that season 6th with 72 points, and Wigan Athletic 23rd with 45.

Sunderland lined up in a 3-4-3 and Wigan Athletic in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Dennis Cirkin of Sunderland (8.5), ahead of Alex Pritchard (7.8).

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

Going into the match Sunderland's last five read L-D-D-D-W and Wigan Athletic's W-L-L-W-L.