📏 Form Guide

Sunderland

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Sunderland will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 1-5 Championship defeat last time out to Blackburn Rovers.

In that game, Sunderland had 55% possession and 13 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Sunderland was Chris Rigg (77'). Blackburn Rovers got 13 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Sammie Szmodics (29', 36'), Ryan Hedges (47'), Tyrhys Dolan (54') and Andrew Moran (81') scored for Blackburn Rovers.

Mike Dodds's Sunderland have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 5 times over their last six outings. At the other end, the number of goals that have been scored against them in those same games is 11.

Analysis of their past results shows that Sunderland:

• have not beaten Bristol City in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league matches. Fans are getting restless.

Bristol City

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Bristol City go into this game following a 0-1 Championship win against Plymouth Argyle in their most recent match.

In that match, Bristol City managed 49% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Bristol City was Nahki Wells (57'). Plymouth Argyle got 12 shots at goal with 2 on target.

In 5 of the previous six games involving Bristol City, a comparatively low number of goals have been scored between them and opposing sides. The overall average number of goals per game during that period is just 1.83, with the number of goals averaged by The Robins being 0.83. Such a pattern won’t necessarily follow through into this match, however.

Coming into this clash, Bristol City have not been beaten by Sunderland when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 13/02/1999, neither club has come out on top overall with Sunderland winning 2 of those games, Bristol City 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

18 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 9 of them for The Black Cats and 9 created by The Robins. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The previous league clash between these clubs was Championship match day 22 on 16/12/2023 when it ended Bristol City 1-0 Sunderland.

That time, Bristol City had 33% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Tommy Conway (20').

Sunderland had 18 shots at goal with 9 of them on target.

The referee was Stephen Martin.

📰 Team News: Sunderland

It seems likely that The Black Cats may well use a 4-1-4-1 system this time, handing starts to Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Daniel Ballard, Luke O'Nien, Callum Styles, Dan Neil, Patrick Roberts, Chris Rigg, Pierre Ekwah, Jack Clarke and Jobe Bellingham.

ℹ️ Team News: Bristol City

There’s a good chance that The Robins will likely utilise a 3-4-2-1 lineup by sending out Max OLeary, Zak Vyner, Robert Dickie, Haydon Roberts, George Tanner, Joe Williams, Jason Knight, Cameron Pring, Anis Mehmeti, Mark Sykes and Tommy Conway.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Bristol City will have their work cut out to be putting a goal past this Sunderland lineup who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore see a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning score for Sunderland at the end of the 90.

A close call.

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Victor Martins, 13:02 06/04/2024