Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 Sunderland: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2005
Result
Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 Sunderland
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 Sunderland: match report
Tottenham Hotspur beat Sunderland 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 December 2005. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Dean Whitehead opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Mido (37'), Robbie Keane (51') and Michael Carrick (77'). Sunderland scored through Dean Whitehead (16') and Anthony Le Tallec (60').
Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 6th on 24 points from 14 and Sunderland 20th on 5 points from 15. Tottenham Hotspur went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sunderland.
Going into the match Tottenham Hotspur's last five read W-D-L-D-D and Sunderland's L-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Dean Whitehead
- 30'Yellow card · Gary Breen
- 37'Goal · Mido
- 51'Goal · Robbie Keane
- 60'Goal · Anthony Le Tallec
- 77'Goal · Michael Carrick
- 88'Yellow card · Nyron Nosworthy
Head-to-head
Team news
Tottenham Hotspur line-up
Paul Robinson, Paul Stalteri, Young-Pyo Lee, Michael Dawson, Ledley King, Michael Carrick, Jermaine Jenas, Edgar Davids, Teemu Tainio, R. Keane, Mido
Sunderland line-up
Ben Alnwick, Gary Breen, Steven Caldwell, Nyron Nosworthy, Danny Collins, Justin Hoyte, Dean Whitehead, Martin Woods, Jon Stead, Chris Brown, Christian Bassila