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Sunderland vs Chelsea

Premier League · Round 16 · Sat 8 Dec 2012, 15:00

Sunderland
13 Full time
Chelsea

Chelsea won 3–1 away at Sunderland on 8 December 2012 (Premier League 2012-2013, Round 16). Goals – Sunderland: Adam Johnson 66'; Chelsea: Fernando Torres 11', 45+3' (pen), Juan Manuel Mata 49'. In 30 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Sunderland have won 7, Chelsea 21 and 2 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. 11' Fernando Torres Chelsea · assist Eden Hazard 0–1
  2. 45+3' Fernando Torres Chelsea · Penalty 0–2
  3. Half time · 0–2
  4. 49' Juan Manuel Mata Chelsea 0–3
  5. 66' Adam Johnson Sunderland · assist James McClean 1–3
  6. Full time · 1–3

Lineups

Sunderland

  1. 22 Simon Mignolet
  2. 2 Phillip Bardsley
  3. 24 Carlos Cuellar
  4. 8 Craig Gardner
  5. 21 Adam Johnson
  6. 7 Sebastian Larsson
  7. 23 James McClean
  8. 16 John O'Shea
  9. 3 Danny Rose
  10. 28 Stephane Sessegnon
  11. 10 Connor Wickham

Substitutes used

Unused

Titus Bramble, Fraizer Campbell, Matthew Kilgallon, David Vaughan, Keiren Westwood

Chelsea

  1. 1 Petr Cech
  2. 24 Gary Cahill
  3. 3 Ashley Cole
  4. 4 David Luiz
  5. 17 Eden Hazard
  6. 2 Branislav Ivanovic
  7. 10 Juan Manuel Mata
  8. 13 Victor Moses
  9. 7 Ramires
  10. 6 Oriol Romeu
  11. 9 Fernando Torres

Substitutes used

Unused

Cesar Azpilicueta, Paulo Ferreira, Marko Marin, Ross Turnbull

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
7Sunderland wins2Draws21Chelsea wins

30 meetings · goals Sunderland 35–69 Chelsea

Previous meetings

14 Jan 2012 Chelsea1–0FT · 15:00Sunderland
10 Sep 2011 Sunderland1–2FT · 15:00Chelsea
1 Feb 2011 Sunderland2–4FT · 19:45Chelsea
14 Nov 2010 Chelsea0–3FT · 16:10Sunderland
16 Jan 2010 Chelsea7–2FT · 15:00Sunderland

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2012-2013

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
3 Chelsea 38 22 9 7 +36 75
17 Sunderland 38 9 12 17 −13 39

Top scorers 2012-2013

All scorers

Sunderland

  1. Steven Fletcher 11
  2. Stephane Sessegnon 7
  3. Craig Gardner 6

Chelsea

  1. Frank Lampard 15
  2. Demba Ba 15
  3. Juan Manuel Mata 12