FA Cup Β· ENG Β· Round 3

Arsenal
3 - 1 Full time
Sunderland

Lineups

Arsenal4-2-3-1
PC33Cech
HB24Bellerin
GP5Paulista
LK6Koscielny
KG3Gibbs
AO15Oxlade-Chamberlain
CC21↓67'Chambers
JC28βš½β†“81'Campbell
AI14↓67'Iwobi
TW14Walcott
OG12⚽Giroud
JP13Pickford
DY24Yedlin
SC22Coates
JO16↓65'O'Shea
PV3van Aanholt
LC6↓57'Cattermole
OT20Toivonen
DW41Watmore
JL17⚽Lens
DG19Graham
SF26↓76'Fletcher
Sunderland4-2-3-1

Arsenal substitutes

16 Aaron Ramsey βš½β†‘67'
8 Mikel Arteta ↑67'
54 Jeff Reine-Adelaide ↑81'
59 Chris Willock
2 Mathieu Debuchy
49 Matt Macey
18 Nacho Monreal

Sunderland substitutes

21 Yann M'Vila ↑57'
2 Billy Jones ↑65'
28 Charalampos Mavrias ↑76'
9 Fabio Borini
18 Jermain Defoe
31 Thomas Beadling
25 Vito Mannone

Match events

16'Jeremain Lens 0 - 1⚽
26'Joel Campbell 1 - 1⚽
Second half
57'↑ Yann M'Vila ↓ Lee Cattermole⇄
65'↑ Billy Jones ↓ John O'Shea⇄
67'↑ Aaron Ramsey ↓ Alex Iwobi⇄
67'↑ Mikel Arteta ↓ Calum Chambers⇄
72'Aaron Ramsey 2 - 1⚽
76'↑ Charalampos Mavrias ↓ Steven Fletcher⇄
76'Olivier Giroud 3 - 1⚽
81'↑ Jeff Reine-Adelaide ↓ Joel Campbell⇄
90'Gabriel Paulista

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 9 January 2016, 15:00 UTC β€” shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

8Arsenal wins4Draws1Sunderland wins

12 past meetings on record. Biggest Arsenal win: Arsenal 4–1 Sunderland (2014). Biggest Sunderland win: Sunderland 0–2 Arsenal (2014).

5 Dec 2015Arsenal 3 - 1 SunderlandPremier League
20 May 2015Arsenal 0 - 0 SunderlandPremier League
25 Oct 2014Sunderland 0 - 2 ArsenalPremier League
22 Feb 2014Arsenal 4 - 1 SunderlandPremier League
14 Sep 2013Sunderland 1 - 3 ArsenalPremier League
9 Feb 2013Sunderland 0 - 1 ArsenalPremier League
18 Aug 2012Arsenal 0 - 0 SunderlandPremier League
18 Feb 2012Sunderland 2 - 0 ArsenalFA Cup
11 Feb 2012Sunderland 1 - 2 ArsenalPremier League
16 Oct 2011Arsenal 2 - 1 SunderlandPremier League
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5 Mar 2011Arsenal 0 - 0 SunderlandPremier League
18 Sep 2010Sunderland 1 - 1 ArsenalPremier League