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Sunderland 3-1 Bolton Wanderers - December 29, 2007 / Premier League 2007/2008

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Premier League 2007/2008 - Journée 20

Stadium of Light - Sunderland - England

December 29, 2007

42 058

Sunderland

3 - 1

Bolton Wanderers

Kieran Richardson

12'

Kenwyne Jones

31'

Daryl Murphy

90'

40'

El-Hadji Diouf

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12' - Goal Kieran Richardson12

31' - Goal Kenwyne Jones31

40' - Goal El-Hadji Diouf

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46' - Substitution Michael Choprais substituted by Grant Leadbitter46

55' - Substitution Jlloyd Samuelis substituted by Danny Guthrie

56' - Substitution Andy Coleis substituted by Daryl Murphy56

69' - Substitution Kieran Richardsonis substituted by Roy O'Donovan69

72' - Substitution Kevin Daviesis substituted by Stylianos Giannakopoulos

86' - Substitution Kevin Nolanis substituted by Iván Campo

90' - Goal Daryl Murphy90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Sunderland

3 - 1

Bolton Wanderers

Sunderland Bolton Wanderers

Team line-ups

Sunderland

Gordon

Craig Gordon

Scotland

B.date31/12/1982

Age24 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Collins

Danny Collins

Wales

B.date06/08/1980

Age27 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

McShane

Paul McShane

Republic of Ireland

B.date06/01/1986

Age21 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

Higginbotham

Danny Higginbotham

Gibraltar

B.date29/12/1978

Age28 years

H1m88

positionLeft full-back

Richardson1269

Kieran Richardson

England

B.date21/10/1984

Age23 years

H1m79

positionLeft Midfielder

Miller

Liam Miller

Republic of Ireland

B.date13/02/1981

Age26 years

H1m69

positionLeft central midfielder

Etuhu

Dickson Etuhu

Nigeria

B.date08/06/1982

Age25 years

H1m88

positionLeft central midfielder

Whitehead

Dean Whitehead

England

B.date12/01/1982

Age25 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

Cole56

Andy Cole

England

B.date15/10/1971

Age36 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Chopra46

Michael Chopra

England

B.date23/12/1983

Age24 years

H1m75

positionStriker

Jones31

Kenwyne Jones

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date05/10/1984

Age23 years

H1m87

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Craig Gordon		24	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Danny Collins		27	101	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul McShane		21	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Danny Higginbotham		28	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kieran Richardson	1269	23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Liam Miller		26	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dickson Etuhu		25	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dean Whitehead		25	143	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Cole	56	36	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michael Chopra	46	24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kenwyne Jones	31	23	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Bolton Wanderers

Jaaskelainen

Jussi Jaaskelainen

Finland

B.date19/04/1975

Age32 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Meïté

Abdoulaye Meïté

Ivory Coast

B.date06/10/1980

Age27 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

O'Brien

Andy O'Brien

Republic of Ireland

B.date29/06/1979

Age28 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Samuel55

Jlloyd Samuel

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date29/03/1981

Age26 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Gardner

Ricardo Gardner

Jamaica

B.date25/09/1978

Age29 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

McCann

Gavin McCann

England

B.date10/01/1978

Age29 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

Nolan86

Kevin Nolan

England

B.date24/06/1982

Age25 years

H1m83

positionPlaymaker

Davies72

Kevin Davies

England

B.date26/03/1977

Age30 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Diouf40

El-Hadji Diouf

Senegal

B.date15/01/1981

Age26 years

H1m80

positionWinger

Anelka

Nicolas Anelka

France

B.date14/03/1979

Age28 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jussi Jaaskelainen		32	285	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Abdoulaye Meïté		27	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andy O'Brien		28	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jlloyd Samuel	55	26	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ricardo Gardner		29	239	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gavin McCann		29	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kevin Nolan	86	25	271	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kevin Davies	72	30	186	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	El-Hadji Diouf	40	26	118	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nicolas Anelka		28	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28 years

Average number of matches played for the team

128

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Grant Leadbitter	46	21	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Roy O'Donovan	69	22	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Daryl Murphy	9056	24	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Iván Campo	86	33	178	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Danny Guthrie	55	20	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stylianos Giannakopoulos	72	33	163	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Andy Cole

Dwight Yorke

OUT

Kieran Richardson

Ross Wallace

OUT

Liam Miller

Martyn Waghorn

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jlloyd Samuel

Nicky Hunt

OUT

Gavin McCann

Danny Guthrie

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Roy Keane

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Keane vs Bolton Wanderers

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 29, 2007

Keane vs Megson

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 29, 2007

Manager

Age

Match num

Gary Megson

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Megson vs Sunderland

4 victories

3 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on December 29, 2007

Megson vs Keane

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 29, 2007

Referee

Philip Dowd

8 victories	9 draws	22 losses	Sunderland39 matches	General total	Bolton Wanderers36 matches	16 victories	10 draws	10 losses
1 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Sunderland3 matches	Season total	Bolton Wanderers4 matches	1 victory	0 draw	3 losses
Latest figure on February 07, 2015					Latest figure on January 03, 2015

Videos

July 09, 2023

Comments

Key figures

Sunderland keeps its 9 matches with at least one goal scored vs Bolton Wanderers at home running (since 10/02/1891). It's a record streak. The first of history

Andy O'Brien played his game number 10 vs Sunderland in Premier League

It's the first time Kieran Richardson scores a goal in his professional career since the 21/04/2007 (with Manchester United vs Middlesbrough )

Read the next 25 key stats

General ranking

-1	15	Birmingham City	19 pts	20 rd
-1	16	Bolton Wanderers	17 pts	20 rd
+2	17	Sunderland	17 pts	20 rd
-1	18	Wigan	16 pts	20 rd
-1	19	Fulham	15 pts	20 rd

General ranking

+2	14	Middlesbrough	20 pts	20 rd
-1	15	Birmingham City	19 pts	20 rd
-1	16	Bolton Wanderers	17 pts	20 rd
+2	17	Sunderland	17 pts	20 rd
-1	18	Wigan	16 pts	20 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LSunderland 1-2 Blackburn29/09/2007

DSunderland 1-1 Fulham27/10/2007

DSunderland 1-1 Newcastle United10/11/2007

VSunderland 1-0 Derby County01/12/2007

DSunderland 1-1 Aston Villa15/12/2007

LSunderland 0-4 Manchester United26/12/2007

Overall

LEverton 7-1 Sunderland24/11/2007

VSunderland 1-0 Derby County01/12/2007

LChelsea 2-0 Sunderland08/12/2007

DSunderland 1-1 Aston Villa15/12/2007

LReading 2-1 Sunderland22/12/2007

LSunderland 0-4 Manchester United26/12/2007

Current form

Away

DWest Ham 1-1 Bolton Wanderers04/11/2007

DBayern Munich 2-2 Bolton Wanderers08/11/2007

LLiverpool 4-0 Bolton Wanderers02/12/2007

VRed Star Belgrade 0-1 Bolton Wanderers06/12/2007

LManchester City 4-2 Bolton Wanderers15/12/2007

LEverton 2-0 Bolton Wanderers26/12/2007

Overall

LLiverpool 4-0 Bolton Wanderers02/12/2007

VRed Star Belgrade 0-1 Bolton Wanderers06/12/2007

VBolton Wanderers 4-1 Wigan09/12/2007

LManchester City 4-2 Bolton Wanderers15/12/2007

VBolton Wanderers 3-0 Birmingham City22/12/2007

LEverton 2-0 Bolton Wanderers26/12/2007

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	2	4
Drawless streak	1	2
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	2	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	2	1
Winless streak	2	1
Drawless streak	4	6
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	2	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

19	General ranking (Competition total)	15
15	General ranking (Home / Away)	17
720	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	111
19	FBDB index ranking (National)	13

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

19	Number of games (Competition total)	19
9	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
3	Victories (Competition total)	4
3	Victories (Home / Away)	0
5	Draws (Competition total)	5
3	Draws (Home / Away)	2
11	Losses (Competition total)	10
3	Losses (Home / Away)	7

Goals

17	Goals scored (Competition total)	21
8	Goals scored (Home / Away)	6
38	Goals conceded (Competition total)	29
12	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	20
0.89	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.11
0.89	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.67
2	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.53
1.33	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.22

Betting aid

10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	9
3	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	4
2	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
6	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	6
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
11	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	10
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
1-1 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-1 (2 times)

Bookings

29	Yellow cards (Competition total)	41
10	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	21
3	Red cards (Competition total)	0
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Kenwyne Jones	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	10 goals	Nicolas Anelka
Danny Higginbotham	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Nicolas Anelka
Michael Chopra	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Michael Chopra	1 goal during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	10 goals during the last 19 matches	Nicolas Anelka

Historical head to head

Home

66 matches

42 v

13 d

11 l

148 gf

66 ga

Away

64 matches

12 v

18 d

34 l

72 gf

115 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

0 ga

Total

131 matches

55 v

31 d

45 l

223 gf

181 ga

Historical head to head

Home

64 matches

34 v

18 d

12 l

115 gf

72 ga

Away

66 matches

11 v

13 d

42 l

66 gf

148 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

3 ga

Total

131 matches

45 v

31 d

55 l

181 gf

223 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 2	December 07, 1935
Home	7 - 2	December 07, 1935

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	April 03, 1953
Away	2 - 0	March 15, 2003

Latest head to head

March 18, 2006 - Premier League 2005/2006

Bolton Wanderers

2 - 0

Sunderland logo Sunderland

December 26, 2005 - Premier League 2005/2006

Sunderland

0 - 0

Bolton Wanderers logo Bolton Wanderers

March 15, 2003 - Premier League 2002/2003

Sunderland

0 - 2

Bolton Wanderers logo Bolton Wanderers

January 14, 2003 - FA Cup 2002/2003

Sunderland

2 - 0

Bolton Wanderers logo Bolton Wanderers

January 04, 2003 - FA Cup 2002/2003

Bolton Wanderers

1 - 1

Sunderland logo Sunderland

Best historical scorers against Bolton Wanderers

Kevin Phillips	2 goals	2001 - 2003
Jody Craddock	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Michael Gray	1 goal	2002 - 2002
Julio Arca	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Jason McAteer	1 goal	2002 - 2002
Michael Proctor	1 goal	2003 - 2003

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/09/2001. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Sunderland

Kevin Nolan	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Henrik Pedersen	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Kevin Davies	1 goal	2006 - 2006
Augustine Okocha	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Michael Ricketts	1 goal	2003 - 2003

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/09/2001. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Bolton Wanderers

George McCartney	6 matches	2002 - 2006
Michael Gray	5 matches	2001 - 2003
Darren Williams	5 matches	2001 - 2003
Kevin Phillips	5 matches	2001 - 2003
Thomas Sorensen	4 matches	2001 - 2003
Kevin Kyle	4 matches	2003 - 2006

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/09/2001. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sunderland

Bruno N'Gotty	6 matches	2002 - 2006
Kevin Nolan	6 matches	2001 - 2006
Jussi Jaaskelainen	6 matches	2001 - 2006
Ricardo Gardner	6 matches	2001 - 2006
Mike Whitlow	5 matches	2001 - 2003
Augustine Okocha	5 matches	2002 - 2006

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/09/2001. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Gavin McCann

124 matches

25 matches

1999 - 2007

Jason McAteer

61 matches

18 matches

1994 - 2004

Emerson Thome

53 matches

32 matches

2000 - 2004

Nicky Summerbee

47 matches

4 matches

1998 - 2001

Sam Allardyce

25 matches

37 matches

1978 - 1981

Ray Train

22 matches

5 matches

1976 - 1978

Total : 10 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/08/1976. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Frank Worthington

19 matches

49 matches

1978 - 1983

Alan Stubbs

11 matches

43 matches

1994 - 2006

Sam Allardyce

25 matches

37 matches

1978 - 1981

Emerson Thome

53 matches

32 matches

2000 - 2004

Gavin McCann

124 matches

25 matches

1999 - 2007

Robbie Elliott

8 matches

22 matches

1997 - 2006

Total : 10 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/08/1976. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

December 29, 2007

Birmingham City

1 1

Fulham

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Chelsea

2 1

Newcastle United

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Everton

1 4

Arsenal

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Line-ups available

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West Ham

2 1

Man United

Video availableLine-ups available

Wigan

1 2

Aston Villa

Video availableLine-ups available

December 30, 2007

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Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
+11	Arsenal	47	20	14	5	1	40	16	+24
-12	Manchester United	45	20	14	3	3	37	11	+26
3	Chelsea	41	20	12	5	3	31	15	+16
4	Liverpool	36	18	10	6	2	33	12	+21
5	Manchester City	35	19	10	5	4	27	22	+5
6	Everton	33	20	10	3	7	35	22	+13
+17	Aston Villa	33	20	9	6	5	35	26	+9
-18	Portsmouth	31	20	8	7	5	29	20	+9
+19	West Ham	29	19	8	5	6	25	17	+8
-110	Blackburn	27	19	7	6	6	25	27	-2
11	Newcastle United	26	20	7	5	8	27	31	-4
+112	Tottenham	24	20	6	6	8	41	36	+5
-113	Reading	22	20	6	4	10	29	42	-13
+214	Middlesbrough	20	20	5	5	10	18	33	-15
-115	Birmingham City	19	20	5	4	11	22	31	-9
-116	Bolton Wanderers	17	20	4	5	11	22	32	-10
+217	Sunderland	17	20	4	5	11	20	39	-19
-118	Wigan	16	20	4	4	12	20	36	-16
-119	Fulham	15	20	2	9	9	21	35	-14
20	Derby County	7	19	1	4	14	9	43	-34

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Sunderland 3-1 Bolton Wanderers - December 29, 2007 / Premier League 2007/2008

Sunderland

3 - 1

Bolton Wanderers

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Keane vs Bolton Wanderers

Keane vs Megson

Manager

Megson vs Sunderland

Megson vs Keane

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Bolton Wanderers

Best historical scorers against Sunderland

Players with most games played vs Bolton Wanderers

Players with most games played vs Sunderland

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking