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title: "Sunderland vs Newcastle: Player Ratings"
canonical: "https://readsunderland.com/2015/10/26/sunderland-vs-newcastle-player-ratings/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Kieran Brown"
section: "Post/Pre Match"
published: "2015-10-26T16:15:07Z"
modified: "2015-10-26T16:15:07Z"
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# Sunderland vs Newcastle: Player Ratings

Sunderland made a massive impact to their recent performances which have been detrimental to them sitting at the bottom of the Premier League.

However, after yesterday’s 3-0 victory over Newcastle in the Wear-Tyne derby, they’ll be looking to start the season properly.

With the majority of chances coming Newcastle’s way, they failed to capitalise, and Sunderland punished them with some fantastic counter-attacking football all afternoon.

Just before the half-time whistle Fletcher was brought down in the box, and much to everyone’s surprise, Fabricio Coloccini was shown a straight red.

That proved to be the game-changer, with Adam Johnson hitting the penalty home, Billy Jones converting a header midway through the second half, and Fletcher scoring from a lovely Kaboul assist with 5 minutes to go.

Here are the player ratings from Sunday’s game…