Swansea City 2-1 Sunderland: result and report

Championship · Saturday 8 October 2022

Result

Swansea City 2-1 Sunderland

Championship · Saturday 8 October 2022, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Swansea City · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Swansea City 2-1 Sunderland: match report

Swansea City beat Sunderland 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 8 October 2022. The half-time score was 2-0.

Oliver Cooper opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Swansea City's goals came from Oliver Cooper (13') and Harry Darling (45+1'). Sunderland scored through Jack Clarke (51').

Discipline: Swansea City received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Swansea City were 6th on 18 points from 12 and Sunderland 8th on 17 points from 12. Swansea City went on to finish that season 10th with 66 points, and Sunderland 6th with 72.

Swansea City lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Sunderland in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Harry Darling of Swansea City (8.3), ahead of Ben Cabango (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Swansea City wins, 5 draws and 1 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Oliver CooperSwansea City · 1-0
  • 16'Yellow card · Dan NeilSunderland
  • 23'Yellow card · Corry EvansSunderland
  • 45+1'Goal · Harry DarlingSwansea City · 2-0
  • 51'Goal · Jack ClarkeSunderland · 2-1
  • 54'Yellow card · E. EmbletonSunderland
  • 54'Yellow card · Jay FultonSwansea City
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Joel LatibeaudiereSwansea City
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Jack ClarkeSunderland
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Lynden GoochSunderland

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Swansea City 4, draws 5, Sunderland 1.

Team news

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

Steven Benda, Nathan Wood, Harry Darling, Ben Cabango, Joel Latibeaudiere, Matt Grimes, Jay Fulton, Ryan Manning, Luke Cundle, Oliver Cooper, Joël Piroe

Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Anthony Patterson, Lynden Gooch, Luke O'Nien, Danny Batth, Aji Alese, Patrick Roberts, Dan Neil, Josef Dvornik, Jack Clarke, Elliot Embleton, Alex Pritchard