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Man United 3-1 Sunderland - December 15, 2012 / Premier League 2012/2013

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Premier League 2012/2013 - Round 17

Old Trafford - Manchester - England

December 15, 2012 - 15:00

75 582

Man United

3 - 1

Sunderland

Robin van Persie

16'

Assist by Michael CarrickTom Cleverley

19'

Assist by Robin van PersieWayne Rooney

59'

72'

Fraizer CampbellAssist by Stéphane Sessègnon

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16' - Goal Robin van Persie16

19' - Goal Tom Cleverley19

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46' - Substitution Michael Carrickis substituted by Paul Scholes46

46' - Substitution Steven Fletcheris substituted by Connor Wickham

59' - Goal Wayne Rooney59

68' - Substitution Rio Ferdinandis substituted by Nemanja Vidic68

68' - Substitution Adam Johnsonis substituted by Fraizer Campbell

72' - Goal Fraizer Campbell

73' - Substitution Tom Cleverleyis substituted by Ryan Giggs73

85' - Substitution Jack Colbackis substituted by James McFadden

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Man United

3 - 1

Sunderland

Man United Sunderland

Team line-ups

Man United

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

20van Persie16

Robin van Persie

Netherlands

B.date06/08/1983

Age29 years

H1m83

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

18Young

Ashley Young

England

B.date09/07/1985

Age27 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

10Rooney59

Wayne Rooney

England

B.date24/10/1985

Age27 years

H1m76

positionStriker

7Valencia

Luis Antonio Valencia

Ecuador

B.date04/08/1985

Age27 years

H1m81

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

23Cleverley1973

Tom Cleverley

England

B.date12/08/1989

Age23 years

H1m74

positionCentre Midfield

16Carrick46

Michael Carrick

England

B.date28/07/1981

Age31 years

H1m82

positionDefensive Midfielder

3Evra

Patrice Evra

France

B.date15/05/1981

Age31 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

12Smalling

Chris Smalling

England

B.date22/11/1989

Age23 years

H1m92

positionRight central defender

5Ferdinand68

Rio Ferdinand

England

B.date07/11/1978

Age34 years

H1m95

positionCentral defender

4Jones

Phil Jones

England

B.date21/02/1992

Age20 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

1De Gea

David De Gea

Spain

B.date07/11/1990

Age22 years

H1m92

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	David De Gea		22	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Rio Ferdinand	68	34	414	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Phil Jones		20	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Chris Smalling		23	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Patrice Evra		31	311	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Michael Carrick	46	31	291	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	Tom Cleverley	1973	23	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Luis Antonio Valencia		27	121	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	F	Robin van Persie	16	29	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Ashley Young		27	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Wayne Rooney	59	27	383	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

163

Sunderland

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

26Fletcher46

Steven Fletcher

Scotland

B.date26/03/1987

Age25 years

H1m86

positionStriker

23McClean

James McClean

Republic of Ireland

B.date22/04/1989

Age23 years

H1m75

positionLeft Midfielder

28Sessègnon

Stéphane Sessègnon

Benin

B.date01/06/1984

Age28 years

H1m72

positionPlaymaker

21Johnson68

Adam Johnson

England

B.date14/07/1987

Age25 years

H1m75

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

8Gardner

Craig Gardner

England

B.date25/11/1986

Age26 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

7Larsson

Sebastian Larsson

Sweden

B.date06/06/1985

Age27 years

H1m79

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

14Colback85

Jack Colback

England

B.date24/10/1989

Age23 years

H1m77

positionLeft central midfielder

19Bramble

Titus Bramble

England

B.date21/07/1981

Age31 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

16O'Shea

John O'Shea

Republic of Ireland

B.date30/04/1981

Age31 years

H1m90

positionRight central defender

24Cuéllar

Carlos Cuéllar

Spain

B.date23/08/1981

Age31 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

22Mignolet

Simon Mignolet

Belgium

B.date06/03/1988

Age24 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
22	G	Simon Mignolet		24	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Carlos Cuéllar		31	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	D	Titus Bramble		31	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	John O'Shea		31	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Craig Gardner		26	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Jack Colback	85	23	73	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	James McClean		23	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Adam Johnson	68	25	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	M	Stéphane Sessègnon		28	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Sebastian Larsson		27	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	F	Steven Fletcher	46	25	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
15	D	Nemanja Vidic	68	31	249	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Paul Scholes	46	38	710	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Ryan Giggs	73	39	921	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
11	M	James McFadden	85	29	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Fraizer Campbell	7268	25	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Connor Wickham	46	19	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Chris Smalling

Jonny Evans

OUT

Phil Jones

Rafael

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Titus Bramble

Danny Rose

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

1474

Success rate in this team:

60 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

58 %

Ferguson vs Sunderland

19 victories

6 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on December 15, 2012

Ferguson vs O'Neill

14 victories

5 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on December 15, 2012

Manager

Age

Match num

Martin O'Neill

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

52 %

O'Neill vs Man United

3 victories

5 draws

14 losses

Latest figure on December 15, 2012

O'Neill vs Ferguson

3 victories

5 draws

14 losses

Latest figure on December 15, 2012

Referee

Christopher Foy

24 victories	9 draws	4 losses	Man United37 matches	General total	Sunderland37 matches	5 victories	10 draws	22 losses
1 victory	1 draw	1 loss	Man United3 matches	Season total	Sunderland3 matches	0 victory	2 draws	1 loss
Latest figure on January 23, 2015					Latest figure on January 17, 2015

Videos

April 07, 2013

Comments

Key figures

Man United keeps its 5 consecutive wins at home in Premier League running (since 20/10/2012).

Only back at the time of Sir Matt Busby head of Manchester United (28/12/1970-02/06/1971), you can see a manager go over Sir Alex Ferguson with 1.88 goals scored per game in Premier League (1.98).

The last time Man United has ended with the score 3-1 vs Sunderland at home, It was on the 28/01/1922

Read the next 33 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VManchester United 4-2 Stoke City20/10/2012

VManchester United 3-2 Braga23/10/2012

VManchester United 2-1 Arsenal03/11/2012

VManchester United 3-1 Queens Park Rangers24/11/2012

VManchester United 1-0 West Ham28/11/2012

LManchester United 0-1 CFR Cluj-Napoca05/12/2012

Overall

LGalatasaray 1-0 Manchester United20/11/2012

VManchester United 3-1 Queens Park Rangers24/11/2012

VManchester United 1-0 West Ham28/11/2012

VReading 3-4 Manchester United01/12/2012

LManchester United 0-1 CFR Cluj-Napoca05/12/2012

VManchester City 2-3 Manchester United09/12/2012

Current form

Away

VMilton Keynes 0-2 Sunderland25/09/2012

LManchester City 3-0 Sunderland06/10/2012

DStoke City 0-0 Sunderland27/10/2012

LEverton 2-1 Sunderland10/11/2012

VFulham 1-3 Sunderland18/11/2012

LNorwich City 2-1 Sunderland02/12/2012

Overall

VFulham 1-3 Sunderland18/11/2012

LSunderland 2-4 West Bromwich Albion24/11/2012

DSunderland 0-0 Queens Park Rangers27/11/2012

LNorwich City 2-1 Sunderland02/12/2012

LSunderland 1-3 Chelsea08/12/2012

VSunderland 3-0 Reading11/12/2012

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	12	27
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	1	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	3	3
Scoring streak	3	3
Conceding streak	3	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

4	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	126
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	14

Results

16	Number of games (Competition total)	16
7	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
13	Victories (Competition total)	3
6	Victories (Home / Away)	1
0	Draws (Competition total)	7
0	Draws (Home / Away)	4
3	Losses (Competition total)	6
1	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

40	Goals scored (Competition total)	17
19	Goals scored (Home / Away)	8
23	Goals conceded (Competition total)	21
9	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	11
2.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.06
2.71	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
1.44	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.31
1.29	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.38

Betting aid

13	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	8
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	5
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	5
2	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
11	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	9
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
3-2 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-0 (2 times)

Bookings

26	Yellow cards (Competition total)	26
10	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	15
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Robin van Persie	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	Steven Fletcher
Robin van Persie	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Steven Fletcher
Wayne Rooney	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Wayne Rooney	7 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	3 assists	Adam Johnson
Wayne Rooney	4 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	3 assists	Adam Johnson
Wayne Rooney	6 goals, 7 assists during the last 11 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Steven Fletcher

Historical head to head

Home

66 matches

37 v

18 d

11 l

138 gf

73 ga

Away

66 matches

20 v

18 d

28 l

90 gf

124 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

1 ga

Total

133 matches

58 v

36 d

39 l

230 gf

198 ga

Historical head to head

Home

66 matches

28 v

18 d

20 l

124 gf

90 ga

Away

66 matches

11 v

18 d

37 l

73 gf

138 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

2 ga

Total

133 matches

39 v

36 d

58 l

198 gf

230 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	December 21, 1996
Home	5 - 0	December 21, 1996

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	December 11, 1926
Away	5 - 0	March 04, 1893

Latest head to head

May 13, 2012 - Premier League 2011/2012

Sunderland

0 - 1

Man United

November 05, 2011 - Premier League 2011/2012

Man United

1 - 0

Sunderland logo Sunderland

December 26, 2010 - Premier League 2010/2011

Man United

2 - 0

Sunderland logo Sunderland

October 02, 2010 - Premier League 2010/2011

Sunderland

0 - 0

Man United

May 02, 2010 - Premier League 2009/2010

Sunderland

0 - 1

Man United

Best historical scorers against Sunderland

Denis Law	8 goals	1964 - 1969
David Herd	7 goals	1964 - 1966
George Best	7 goals	1964 - 1969
Paul Scholes	5 goals	1996 - 2009
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer	4 goals	1996 - 2000
Kevin Moran	4 goals	1981 - 1985

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/10/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Man United

Clive Walker	4 goals	1984 - 1985
Tony Towers	3 goals	1976 - 1977
Kevin Phillips	3 goals	2000 - 2002
Bob Lee	2 goals	1976 - 1976
George Mulhall	2 goals	1968 - 1969
Kenwyne Jones	2 goals	2009 - 2009

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/10/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sunderland

Bobby Charlton	18 matches	1957 - 1969
George Best	15 matches	1964 - 1969
Arthur Albiston	15 matches	1976 - 1986
Paul Scholes	15 matches	1996 - 2012
Ryan Giggs	15 matches	1996 - 2012
Pat Crerand	14 matches	1964 - 1969

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/10/1956. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Michael Gray	12 matches	1996 - 2002
George Herd	10 matches	1964 - 1969
Shaun Elliott	9 matches	1977 - 1985
Chris Turner	9 matches	1980 - 1985
Jimmy Montgomery	9 matches	1966 - 1969
George Mulhall	9 matches	1964 - 1969