Sunderland 2-2 Fulham (2012-13 Premier League)

Sat 2 Mar 2013 15:00	Sunderland	(1) 2-2 (2)	Fulham	Stadium of Light, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Attendance: 39,312 Referee: Mark Halsey
	Gardner  37' (pen) Sessègnon  70'	Report	Berbatov  16' (pen) Riether  35'

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SUNDERLAND (4-4-2) GK 22 Simon Mignolet DR 2 Craig Gardner DC 19 Titus Bramble DC 16 John O'Shea (c) DL 14 Jack Colback MR 28 Stéphane Sessègnon MC 7 Sebastian Larsson MC 4 Alfred N'Diaye 74' ML 21 Adam Johnson ST 9 Danny Graham 76' ST 26 Steven Fletcher Substitutes: GK 20 Kieren Westwood DF 2 Phil Bardsley DF 18 Kader Mangane DF 24 Carlos Cuéllar MF 15 David Vaughan MF 23 James McClean 76' Manager: Martin O'Neill

FULHAM (4-2-3-1) GK 1 Mark Schwarzer DR 27 Sascha Riether 88' DC 4 Philippe Senderos DC 5 Brede Hangeland (c) 60' DL 3 John Arne Riise DM 7 Steve Sidwell 73' DM 14 Giorgos Karagounis 64' AMR 24 Ashkan Dejagah 85' AMC 11 Bryan Ruiz AML 16 Damien Duff 80' ST 9 Dimitar Berbatov Substitutes: GK 38 Neil Etheridge DF 18 Aaron Hughes MF 12 Emmanuel Frimpong 64' MF 15 Kieran Richardson MF 28 Urby Emanuelson 80' FW 10 Mladen Petrić FW 20 Hugo Rodallega 85' Manager: Martin Jol

Assistant referees: Harry Lennard Dave Bryan Fourth official: Graham Salisbury Previous Meeting: Fulham 1-3 Sunderland (2012-13 Premier League) (17 Nov 2012) Following Meeting: Sunderland 0-1 Fulham (2013-14 Premier League) (17 Aug 2013) Trivia Sascha Riether scores his only goal for Fulham Statistics Sunderland Fulham Possession 50% 50% Shots on target 5 5 Shots off target 8 3 Shots blocked 5 2 Corner kicks 7 3 Fouls committed 9 14 Offsides 3 1 Yellow cards 1 3 Red cards 0 0 Total passes 406 439 Passing success 81% 83% Tackles 21 19 Tackles success 81% 79% Total crosses 50 17 Successful crosses 20% 18% Interceptions 3 17 Images Fulham's Ashkan Dejagah, who was prominent throughout this fixture was judged to have been tripped in the box by Craig Gardner. 0-1: Dimitar Berbatov cooly slotted the ball past Mignolet from the resulting penalty. 0-2: The lead was doubled shortly after the half-hour mark when Fulham broke from a Sunderland attack, with Sascha Riether grabbing his first goal for fulham after a mad dash from his own box he managed to get on the end of a low cross from Ashkan Dejagah which had been palmed towards Riether by Mignolet. 1-2: Craig Gardner hit back immediately via the penalty spot after Senderos had pulled Danny Graham back whilst both attempting to get onto a long ball played into the box. Mark Schwarzer managed to get a hand on it but could not prevent it from hitting the top corner of the net. 2-2: Moments after Mignolet had made a fantastic save to prevent Berbatov from adding to his tally, Sunderland made a quick break up the field and Stéphane Sessègnon finished well from outside the area towards Schwarzer's left hand corner 2012-13 season Pre-season: HB Køge (n) • Lokomotive Leipzig (a) • Kaiserslautern (n) Wycombe (a) • Nice (a) • MK Dons (a) • Charlton (h) Premier League: Norwich (h) • Man Utd (a) • West Ham (a) • West Brom (h) • Wigan (a) • Man City (h) • Southampton (a) Aston Villa (h) • Reading (a) • Everton (h) • Arsenal (a) • Sunderland (h) • Stoke (a) • Chelsea (a) • Tottenham (h) Newcastle (h) • QPR (a) • Liverpool (a) • Southampton (h) • Swansea (h) • West Brom (a) • Wigan (h) • Man City (a) West Ham (h) • Man Utd (h) • Norwich (a) • Stoke (h) • Sunderland (a) • Tottenham (a) • QPR (h) • Newcastle (a) Aston Villa (a) • Chelsea (h) • Arsenal (h) • Everton (a) • Reading (h) • Liverpool (h) • Swansea (a) FA Cup: 3rd round: Blackpool (h) • Replay: Blackpool (a) | 4th round: Man Utd (a) League Cup: 2nd round: Sheff Wed (a)