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Norwich vs Sunderland

Premier League · Round 6 · Mon 26 Sep 2011, 20:00

Norwich
21 Full time
Sunderland

Norwich beat Sunderland 2–1 on 26 September 2011 (Premier League 2011-2012, Round 6). Goals – Norwich: Leon Barnett 31', Steve Morison 48'; Sunderland: Kieran Richardson 86'. In 8 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Norwich have won 4, Sunderland 2 and 2 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. 31' Leon Barnett Norwich · assist Elliott Bennett 1–0
  2. Half time · 1–0
  3. 48' Steve Morison Norwich · assist Marc Tierney 2–0
  4. 86' Kieran Richardson Sunderland · assist Dong-Won Ji 2–1
  5. Full time · 2–1

Lineups

Norwich

  1. 1 John Ruddy
  2. 20 Leon Barnett
  3. 17 Elliott Bennett
  4. 15 David Fox
  5. 14 Wesley Hoolahan
  6. 4 Bradley Johnson
  7. 2 Russell Martin
  8. 5 Steve Morison
  9. 25 Kyle Naughton
  10. 12 Anthony Pilkington
  11. 23 Marc Tierney

Substitutes used

Unused

Ritchie De Laet, Chris Martin, Declan Rudd, Andrew Surman

Sunderland

  1. 22 Simon Mignolet
  2. 52 Nicklas Bendtner
  3. 19 Titus Bramble
  4. 5 Wes Brown
  5. 27 Ahmed Elmohamady
  6. 8 Craig Gardner
  7. 7 Sebastian Larsson
  8. 16 John O'Shea
  9. 11 Kieran Richardson
  10. 28 Stephane Sessegnon
  11. 15 David Vaughan

Substitutes used

Unused

Lee Cattermole, Jack Colback, James McClean, Michael Turner, Keiren Westwood

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
4Norwich wins2Draws2Sunderland wins

8 meetings · goals Norwich 10–10 Sunderland

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2011-2012

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
12 Norwich 38 12 11 15 −14 47
13 Sunderland 38 11 12 15 −1 45

Top scorers 2011-2012

All scorers

Norwich

  1. Grant Holt 15
  2. Steve Morison 9
  3. Anthony Pilkington 8

Sunderland

  1. Nicklas Bendtner 8
  2. Sebastian Larsson 7
  3. Stephane Sessegnon 7