Manchester City — Sunderland 5:3, 20 September: match result

match finished Premier League · Matchday 5 Sunday 20 September · 13:00 UTC

Manchester City 1th · 15 pts WWWWW

5 : 3 1st half 3:2

Sunderland 14th · 4 pts LLDWL

Etihad Stadium · referee R. Jones

Match predictionValue

Sunderland +2.5

87% · Sunderland games average 3.2 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Sunderland +2.5”, and the match finished 5:3.

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our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Manchester City 57% draw 21% Sunderland 22%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Manchester City win, and the match finished 5:3. Fans backed Manchester City win — they got it right.

fans 52 votes

Manchester City 65% draw 12% Sunderland 23%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

D. Methalie 8'

E. Fernandez 1-0 9'

B. Brobbey assist: E. Le Fee 1-1 12'

R. Cherki assist: A. Semenyo 2-1 29'

B. Brobbey assist: T. Meunier 2-2 33'

A. Semenyo assist: M. Guehi 3-2 43'

A. Semenyo 4-2 57'

B. Brobbey assist: N. Angulo 4-3 59'

M. Fofana for N. Angulo 60'

W. Isidor for N. Sadiki 68'

J. Doku for I. Ndiaye 75'

T. Hume for T. Meunier 79'

E. Haaland assist: J. Gvardiol 5-3 81'

N. O'Reilly for R. Cherki 85'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Manchester City 4-2-3-1 · Enzo Maresca 4-2-3-1 · Regis Le Bris Sunderland

Gianluigi Donnarumma  
Matheus Nunes  3 Rúben Dias  6 Marc Guéhi  24 Joško Gvardiol  
Enzo Fernández  5 Elliot Anderson  
Iliman Ndiaye  10 Rayan Cherki  42 Antoine Semenyo  
Erling Haaland  

Brian Brobbey  
Thomas Meunier  28 Enzo Le Fée  10 Nilson Angulo  
Granit Xhaka  27 Noah Sadiki  
Nordi Mukiele  4 Kevin Danso  5 Daniel Ballard  6 Dayann Methalie  
Robin Roefs  

Manchester City bench

45Abdukodir Khusanov
37Allan
32Ayyoub Bouaddi
28Gerónimo Rulli
11Jérémy Doku
8Mateo Kovačić
33Nico O'Reilly
21Rayan Aït-Nouri
82Rico Lewis

Sunderland bench

7Chemsdine Talbi
11Chris Rigg
29Jules Ahoka
13Luke O'Nien
39Malick Fofana
31Melker Ellborg
15Omar Alderete
32Trai Hume
18Wilson Isidor

Match stats

19 metrics for the full match

55%Possession45%

16Shots17

6Shots on target9

5Shots off target5

5Blocked shots3

12Shots inside box14

4Shots outside box3

93Attacks90

42Dangerous attacks36

6Corners5

11Fouls12

0Yellow cards1

4Saves1

470Passes385

403Accurate passes315

15Free kicks14

18Throw-ins11

6Goal kicks9

0Penalties0

Manchester City

SunderlandThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Manchester City and Sunderland met on matchday 5 of the Premier League on 20 September at Etihad Stadium. Final score — 5:3.

Manchester City sit 1th on 15 points after 5 matches (5 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses), unbeaten in 5 matches. Sunderland sit 14th on 4 points after 5 matches (1 win, 1 draw, 3 losses), winless in 3 matches.

Of the last 2 meetings Manchester City won 1, Sunderland won 0, with 1 more meeting drawn. Aggregate score — 3:0.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Manchester City last five Sunderland

WWWWW form LLDWL

5 Matches 5

5 — 0 — 0 Wins — draws — defeats 1 — 1 — 3

13 — 5 Scored — conceded 6 — 10

3 Points per game 0.8

2.6 Goals scored per game 1.2

2 Clean sheets 1

0 Failed to score 1

unbeaten in 5 Current streak winless in 3

Manchester City at home: 3 matches, 3 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses, goals 8—4, 3 points per match.

Sunderland away: 3 matches, 0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses, goals 5—8, 0.33 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

1 Manchester City win 1 draw 0 Sunderland wins goals 3:0 Manchester City — Sunderland

01/01/2026	Sunderland — Manchester City	0:0	Premier League
06/12/2025	Manchester City — Sunderland	3:0	Premier League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	Manchester City	5	5	0	0	13—5	15
2	Arsenal FC	5	4	0	1	8—4	12
…
13	Manchester United	3	1	1	1	7—6	4
14	Sunderland	3	1	1	1	3—3	4
15	Crystal Palace	5	1	1	3	6—11	4

Full Premier League table