Premier League · ENG · Round 37

Sunderland
3 - 2 Full time
Chelsea

Stadium of Light

Lineups

Sunderland4-1-4-1
VM25Mannone
DY24Yedlin
LK23↓55'Kone
YK15Kaboul
PV3van Aanholt
JK27↓64'Kirchhoff
FB9âš½Borini
LC6↓71'Cattermole
YM21M'Vila
WK22âš½Khazri
JD18âš½Defoe
TC13Courtois
BI2↓69'Ivanovic
GC24Cahill
JT26Terry
CA28Azpilicueta
JO12↓83'Mikel
NM21âš½Matic
W22↓80'Willian
CF4Fabregas
EH10Hazard
DC19âš½Costa
Chelsea4-2-3-1

Sunderland substitutes

16 John O'Shea ↑55'
41 Duncan Watmore ↑64'
7 Sebastian Larsson ↑71'
10 Dame N'Doye
8 Jack Rodwell
17 Jeremain Lens
13 Jordan Pickford

Coach: Sam Allardyce

Chelsea substitutes

6 Abdul Rahman Baba ↑69'
8 Oscar ↑80'
14 Bertrand Traore ↑83'
11 Alexandre Pato
1 Asmir Begovic
16 Kenedy
36 Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Coach: Guus Hiddink

Match events

1'Gary Cahill
14'Diego Costa 0 - 1âš½
41'Wahbi Khazri 1 - 1âš½
45+4'Nemanja Matic assist: César Azpilicueta 1 - 2⚽
Second half
52'Lee Cattermole
55'↑ John O'Shea ↓ Lamine Kone⇄
64'↑ Duncan Watmore ↓ Jan Kirchhoff⇄
67'Fabio Borini assist: Patrick van Aanholt 2 - 2âš½
69'↑ Abdul Rahman Baba ↓ Branislav Ivanovic⇄
70'Jermain Defoe 3 - 2âš½
70'Jermain Defoe
71'↑ Sebastian Larsson ↓ Lee Cattermole⇄
80'↑ Oscar ↓ Willian⇄
83'↑ Bertrand Traore ↓ John Obi Mikel⇄
87'John Terry
88'Younes Kaboul
88'Sebastian Larsson
90+5'John Terry

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Match details

CompetitionPremier League
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 7 May 2016, 14:00 UTC — 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

4Sunderland wins1Draws8Chelsea wins

12 past meetings on record. Biggest Sunderland win: Chelsea 3–1 Sunderland (2015). Biggest Chelsea win: Chelsea 0–3 Sunderland (2010).

19 Dec 2015Chelsea 3 - 1 SunderlandPremier League
24 May 2015Chelsea 3 - 1 SunderlandPremier League
29 Nov 2014Sunderland 0 - 0 ChelseaPremier League
19 Apr 2014Chelsea 1 - 2 SunderlandPremier League
17 Dec 2013Sunderland 2 - 1 ChelseaCapital One Cup
4 Dec 2013Sunderland 3 - 4 ChelseaPremier League
7 Apr 2013Chelsea 2 - 1 SunderlandPremier League
8 Dec 2012Sunderland 1 - 3 ChelseaPremier League
14 Jan 2012Chelsea 1 - 0 SunderlandPremier League
10 Sep 2011Sunderland 1 - 2 ChelseaPremier League
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1 Feb 2011Sunderland 2 - 4 ChelseaPremier League
14 Nov 2010Chelsea 0 - 3 SunderlandPremier League