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.
The referee was J. Simpson, with 82 matches in our database and 1.5 yellows per game on average. 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.