Season 2026-27

Sunderland vs Chelsea

Premier League · Round 16 · Wed 14 Dec 2016, 19:45

Sunderland
01 Full time
Chelsea

Chelsea won 1–0 away at Sunderland on 14 December 2016 (Premier League 2016-2017, Round 16). Goals – Chelsea: Cesc Fabregas 40'. In 30 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Sunderland have won 7, Chelsea 21 and 2 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. 40' Cesc Fabregas Chelsea · assist Willian 0–1
  2. Half time · 0–1
  3. Full time · 0–1

Lineups

Sunderland

  1. 13 Jordan Pickford
  2. 23 Lamine Kone
  3. 16 John O'Shea (c)
  4. 5 Papy Djilobodji
  5. 2 Billy Jones
  6. 4 Jason Denayer
  7. 3 Patrick van Aanholt
  8. 44 Adnan Januzaj
  9. 18 Jermain Defoe
  10. 9 Fabio Borini
  11. 27 Jan Kirchhoff

Substitutes used

Unused

Joel Asoro, George Honeyman, Josh Maja, Vito Mannone

Chelsea

  1. 13 Thibaut Courtois
  2. 28 Cesar Azpilicueta
  3. 30 David Luiz
  4. 24 Gary Cahill (c)
  5. 15 Victor Moses
  6. 7 N'Golo Kante
  7. 4 Cesc Fabregas
  8. 3 Marcos Alonso
  9. 22 Willian
  10. 19 Diego Costa
  11. 11 Pedro

Substitutes used

Unused

Michy Batshuayi, Asmir Begovic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Kurt Zouma

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

7 May 2016 Sunderland3–2FT · 15:00Chelsea
19 Dec 2015 Chelsea3–1FT · 15:00Sunderland
24 May 2015 Chelsea3–1FT · 15:00Sunderland
29 Nov 2014 Sunderland0–0FT · 17:30Chelsea
19 Apr 2014 Chelsea1–2FT · 17:30Sunderland

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2016-2017

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
1 Chelsea 38 30 3 5 +52 93
20 Sunderland 38 6 6 26 −40 24

Top scorers 2016-2017

All scorers

Sunderland

  1. Jermain Defoe 15
  2. Victor Anichebe 3
  3. Fabio Borini 2

Chelsea

  1. Diego Costa 20
  2. Eden Hazard 16
  3. Pedro 9