Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Sunderland 4th with 76 points, Norwich City 13th with 57, 19 apart. On recent form Sunderland sat only 24th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 4th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Norwich City 1.54 scored and 1.48 conceded per game, Sunderland 1.26 and 0.96, with the league averaging 1.23.
Norwich City had banked 4 of the last 15 points on offer; Sunderland, 10.
GioScore's database holds 16 meetings between the two: 6 for Norwich City, 7 for Sunderland and 3 drawn, at 2.56 goals per meeting.
Carrow Road in Norwich, capacity 27,244, hosted the game. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.