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Arsenal 3-1 Sunderland - October 06, 2002 / Premier League 2002/2003

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Premier League 2002/2003 - Round 9

Highbury - London - England

October 06, 2002

37 902

Arsenal

3 - 1

Sunderland

Nwankwo Kanu

Patrick Vieira

45'

82'

Jody Craddock

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3' - Goal Nwankwo Kanu3

9' - Goal Nwankwo Kanu9

13' - Substitution Thomas Sorensenis substituted by Thomas Myhre

45' - Goal Patrick Vieira45

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58' - Substitution Paul Thirlwellis substituted by Matthew Piper

74' - Substitution Tore André Flois substituted by Niall Quinn

77' - Substitution Sylvain Wiltordis substituted by Edu photo Francis Jeffers

77' - Substitution Thierry Henryis substituted by Francis Jeffers77

78' - Substitution Freddie Ljungbergis substituted by Kolo Touré78

82' - Goal Jody Craddock

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Arsenal

3 - 1

Sunderland

Arsenal Sunderland

Team line-ups

Arsenal

Seaman

David Seaman

England

B.date19/09/1963

Age39 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

23 Campbell

Sol Campbell

England

B.date18/09/1974

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

18 Cygan

Pascal Cygan

France

B.date29/04/1974

Age28 years

H1m91

positionLeft central defender

12 Lauren

Lauren

Cameroon

B.date19/01/1977

Age25 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Cole

Ashley Cole

England

B.date20/12/1980

Age21 years

H1m76

positionLeft full-back

19 Silva

Gilberto Silva

Brazil

B.date07/10/1976

Age25 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

4 Vieira45

Patrick Vieira

France

B.date23/06/1976

Age26 years

H1m92

positionDefensive Midfielder

8 Ljungberg78

Freddie Ljungberg

Sweden

B.date16/04/1977

Age25 years

H1m76

positionOffensive Midfielder

Wiltord77

Sylvain Wiltord

France

B.date10/05/1974

Age28 years

H1m73

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

14 Henry77

Thierry Henry

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age25 years

H1m88

positionStriker

Kanu39

Nwankwo Kanu

Nigeria

B.date01/08/1976

Age26 years

H1m96

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
	G	David Seaman		39	534	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Sol Campbell		28	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Pascal Cygan		28	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Lauren		25	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	Ashley Cole		21	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Gilberto Silva		25	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Patrick Vieira	45	26	288	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Freddie Ljungberg	78	25	155	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Sylvain Wiltord	77	28	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Thierry Henry	77	25	162	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F	Nwankwo Kanu	39	26	157	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

151

Sunderland

Sorensen13

Thomas Sorensen

Denmark

B.date12/06/1976

Age26 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

Craddock82

Jody Craddock

England

B.date25/07/1975

Age27 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Williams

Darren Williams

England

B.date28/04/1977

Age25 years

H1m72

positionCentral defender

Babb

Phil Babb

Republic of Ireland

B.date30/11/1970

Age31 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Kilbane

Kevin Kilbane

Republic of Ireland

B.date01/02/1977

Age25 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

Thirlwell58

Paul Thirlwell

England

B.date13/02/1979

Age23 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

McCann

Gavin McCann

England

B.date10/01/1978

Age24 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Reyna

Claudio Reyna

United States

B.date20/07/1973

Age29 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Arca

Julio Arca

Argentina

B.date31/01/1981

Age21 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Flo74

Tore André Flo

Norway

B.date15/06/1973

Age29 years

H1m93

positionStriker

Bellion

David Bellion

France

B.date27/11/1982

Age19 years

H1m81

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Thomas Sorensen	13	26	136	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jody Craddock	82	27	103	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Darren Williams		25	124	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Babb		31	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kevin Kilbane		25	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Thirlwell	58	23	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gavin McCann		24	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Claudio Reyna		29	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Julio Arca		21	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tore André Flo	74	29	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Bellion		19	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
28	D	Kolo Touré	78	21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M	Edu	77	24	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F	Francis Jeffers	77	21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Thomas Myhre	13	28	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Matthew Piper	58	21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Niall Quinn	74	35	145	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Freddie Ljungberg

Kolo Touré

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Thomas Sorensen

Thomas Myhre

OUT

Paul Thirlwell

Marcus Stewart

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Arsène Wenger

335

Success rate in this team:

58 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Wenger vs Sunderland

4 victories

4 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on October 06, 2002

Wenger vs Reid

4 victories

4 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on October 06, 2002

Manager

Age

Match num

Peter Reid

353

Success rate in this team:

45 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

45 %

Reid vs Arsenal

3 victories

5 draws

9 losses

Latest figure on October 06, 2002

Reid vs Wenger

2 victories

4 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on October 06, 2002

Referee

David Elleray

12 victories	3 draws	4 losses	Arsenal19 matches	General total	Sunderland10 matches	2 victories	4 draws	4 losses
2 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Arsenal2 matches	Season total	Sunderland2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on April 19, 2003					Latest figure on January 25, 2003

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Key figures

No Sunderland manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Peter Reid has done less than 1.33 goals conceded per game in Premier League.

The last time Sunderland has ended with the score 1-3 away from home, It was on the 14/05/2000 (vs )

Arsène Wenger has registered 200 goal(s) conceded in Premier League since the 30/09/1996 as the manager of Arsenal next after this match..

Read the next 17 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VArsenal 4-3 Everton11/05/2002

VArsenal 2-0 Birmingham City18/08/2002

VArsenal 5-2 West Bromwich Albion27/08/2002

VArsenal 2-1 Manchester City10/09/2002

VArsenal 2-0 Borussia Dortmund17/09/2002

VArsenal 2-1 Bolton Wanderers21/09/2002

Overall

VCharlton 0-3 Arsenal14/09/2002

VArsenal 2-0 Borussia Dortmund17/09/2002

VArsenal 2-1 Bolton Wanderers21/09/2002

VPSV Eindhoven 0-4 Arsenal25/09/2002

VLeeds United 1-4 Arsenal28/09/2002

VAuxerre 0-1 Arsenal02/10/2002

Current form

Away

DCharlton 2-2 Sunderland27/04/2002

DBlackburn 0-0 Sunderland17/08/2002

VLeeds United 0-1 Sunderland28/08/2002

LMiddlesbrough 3-0 Sunderland10/09/2002

LNewcastle United 2-0 Sunderland21/09/2002

VCambridge United 0-7 Sunderland01/10/2002

Overall

DSunderland 1-1 Manchester United31/08/2002

LMiddlesbrough 3-0 Sunderland10/09/2002

LSunderland 0-3 Fulham14/09/2002

LNewcastle United 2-0 Sunderland21/09/2002

VSunderland 1-0 Aston Villa28/09/2002

VCambridge United 0-7 Sunderland01/10/2002

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	11	7
Unbeaten streak	11	23
Drawless streak	16	7
Scoring streak	11	23
Conceding streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Drawless streak	4	5
Scoring streak	1	2
Invincibility streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

8	Number of games (Competition total)	8
4	Number of games (Home / Away)	4
6	Victories (Competition total)	2
4	Victories (Home / Away)	1
2	Draws (Competition total)	2
0	Draws (Home / Away)	1
0	Losses (Competition total)	4
0	Losses (Home / Away)	2

Goals

21	Goals scored (Competition total)	3
11	Goals scored (Home / Away)	1
8	Goals conceded (Competition total)	10
4	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	5
2.63	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.38
2.75	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.25
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.25
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.25

Betting aid

6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
6	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	1
3	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
2-1 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-0 (1 times)

Bookings

17	Yellow cards (Competition total)	15
5	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	8
1	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Thierry Henry	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Tore André Flo
Sylvain Wiltord	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Jason McAteer
Thierry Henry	3 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)		-
Thierry Henry	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)		-
Thierry Henry	6 goals, 3 assists during the last 8 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	David Bellion

Historical head to head

Home

63 matches

33 v

14 d

16 l

124 gf

67 ga

Away

61 matches

11 v

20 d

30 l

70 gf

117 ga

Total

124 matches

44 v

34 d

46 l

194 gf

184 ga

Historical head to head

Home

61 matches

30 v

20 d

11 l

117 gf

70 ga

Away

63 matches

16 v

14 d

33 l

67 gf

124 ga

Total

124 matches

46 v

34 d

44 l

184 gf

194 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	December 24, 1949
Home	5 - 0	December 24, 1949

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	September 12, 1953
Away	4 - 0	November 21, 1908

Latest head to head

March 30, 2002 - Premier League 2001/2002

Arsenal

3 - 0

Sunderland logo Sunderland

October 27, 2001 - Premier League 2001/2002

Sunderland

1 - 1

Arsenal

December 30, 2000 - Premier League 2000/2001

Arsenal

2 - 2

Sunderland logo Sunderland

August 19, 2000 - Premier League 2000/2001

Sunderland

1 - 0

Arsenal

January 15, 2000 - Premier League 1999/2000

Arsenal

4 - 1

Sunderland logo Sunderland

Best historical scorers against Sunderland

Jon Sammels	4 goals	1966 - 1969
Alan Skirton	3 goals	1966 - 1966
John Hartson	2 goals	1996 - 1997
George Eastham	2 goals	1964 - 1964
Tony Woodcock	2 goals	1983 - 1984
Patrick Vieira	2 goals	2000 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/10/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Arsenal

Gary Rowell	6 goals	1980 - 1984
Colin West	2 goals	1983 - 1983
Charles Hurley	2 goals	1966 - 1968
Clive Walker	2 goals	1984 - 1984
Billy Hughes	2 goals	1969 - 1973
Niall Quinn	2 goals	2000 - 2000

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/10/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sunderland

John Radford	11 matches	1965 - 1970
Paul Davis	11 matches	1980 - 1991
David O'Leary	11 matches	1976 - 1991
Peter Storey	11 matches	1966 - 1973
Frank McLintock	11 matches	1965 - 1970
George Armstrong	10 matches	1964 - 1976

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/10/1934. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Arsenal

Jimmy Montgomery	12 matches	1966 - 1976
Shaun Elliott	11 matches	1977 - 1985
Len Ashurst	10 matches	1964 - 1970
Martin Harvey	10 matches	1964 - 1969
Michael Gray	10 matches	1996 - 2002
Gordon Chisholm	9 matches	1980 - 1985