Watford 2-2 Sunderland: result and report

Championship · Saturday 17 September 2022

Result

Watford 2-2 Sunderland

Championship · Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Watford · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Watford 2-2 Sunderland: match report

Watford drew with Sunderland 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 17 September 2022. The half-time score was 1-1.

Keinan Davis opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Watford's goals came from Keinan Davis (34') and an own goal by Luke O'Nien (62'). Sunderland scored through Aji Alese (45') and J. Bennette (87').

Discipline: Watford received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Watford were 10th on 13 points from 9 and Sunderland 6th on 14 points from 9. Watford went on to finish that season 11th with 63 points, and Sunderland 6th with 72.

Watford lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Sunderland in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Aji Alese of Sunderland (7.8), level with Jewison Bennette (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Watford wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Goal · Keinan DavisWatford · 1-0
  • 45'Goal · Aji AleseSunderland · 1-1
  • 59'Yellow card · P. RobertsSunderland
  • 61'Yellow card · Corry EvansSunderland
  • 62'Own goal · Luke O'NienWatford · 2-1
  • 87'Goal · J. BennetteSunderland · 2-2
  • 88'Yellow card · J. BennetteSunderland
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Jay MateteSunderland

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Watford 3, draws 0, Sunderland 1.

Team news

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Watford line-up (3-4-1-2)

Daniel Bachmann, Craig Cathcart, William Troost-Ekong, Kortney Hause, João Pedro, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Edo Kayembe, Hassane Kamara, Ken Sema, Keinan Davis, Yáser Asprilla

Sunderland line-up (3-4-2-1)

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