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Burton Albion vs Sunderland Live Stream, Predictions
The League One match at Pirelli Stadium on Saturday will see home team Burton Albion take to the field against Sunderland.
Our predictions, user poll and statistics for Burton Albion v Sunderland can be found here including the latest game odds.
📊 Form Guide
Burton Albion
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Burton Albion will be looking for another win after a 0-2 League One success over Northampton Town.
For Burton Albion, the scorers were Michael Bostwick (77') and Ryan Edwards (94').
In their last 6 games, Jimmy Hasselbaink's Burton Albion have netted 8 times resulting in an average number of goals scored per match of 1.33.
Ahead of this meeting, Burton Albion are unbeaten in the league by Sunderland in their last 5 matches.
Sunderland
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Previously, Sunderland drew 1-1 in the EFL Trophy tie with Lincoln City.
The numbers tell their own story, and Sunderland have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 8 goals overall. At the back, The Black Cats just haven’t been too solid at all.
Coming into this fixture, Sunderland have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.
👥 Head to head
Inspecting their past head to head meetings dating back to 25/11/2017 shows us that Burton Albion have won 3 of these games and Sunderland 1, with the tally of draws being 2.
An aggregate of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them from The Brewers and 7 belonging to The Black Cats. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.
The last league meeting between these sides was League One match day 15 on 01/12/2020 when it ended Sunderland 1-1 Burton Albion.
The match was refereed by Chris Sarginson.
📰 Team News: Burton Albion
Burton Albion boss Jimmy Hasselbaink will be happy not to have any fitness worries at all before this match with a completely injury-free group available for selection.
📰 Team News: Sunderland
From a largely healthy group of players, there is only the lone fitness issue for the Sunderland gaffer Lee Johnson to be concerned with. Arbenit Xhemajli (Cruciate Ligament Surgery) misses out for this game.
✨ Prediction
When taking everything into account, Burton Albion will need things to go their way to get anything against this Sunderland outfit who we reckon should score one, at least.
We’re therefore anticipating a hard-fought 0-1 winning score for Sunderland at the end of the match.
There should be little in it.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira, 00:14 16/02/2021

⚽️ Team Focus:
Burton Albion
Formed: 1950
Stadium: Pirelli Stadium (6,912)
Captain: John Brayford
Chairman: Ben Robinson
Manager: Jimmy Hasselbaink
Competitions: League One position 24
⭐ Key Player: Lucas Akins

Customarily used in the Left Wing position, Lucas Akins was born in Huddersfield, England. After having made a senior debut playing for Huddersfield Town in the 2006 - 2007 season, the gifted Forward has bagged 5 league goals in this League One 2020 - 2021 campaign to date from a total of 25 appearances.
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27 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 53 | WLWDD |
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29 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 52 | WLDLW |
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27 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 52 | DLWWW |
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27 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 48 | LWDWL |
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26 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 48 | WWLLL |
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26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 45 | WDLDW |
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27 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 44 | WDDLW |
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26 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 43 | WWLWW |
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28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 43 | DWLWL |
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28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | -4 | 41 | WDDWW |
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26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 40 | LDWLD |
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28 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 40 | DLDWL |
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28 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 38 | LWDWW |
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25 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 37 | DWWLW |
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28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | -4 | 37 | WDLWL |
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28 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 35 | DLDWL |
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25 | 8 | 9 | 8 | -2 | 33 | LWLWW |
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27 | 7 | 6 | 14 | -17 | 27 | LLDLW |
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28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -14 | 26 | LWLLL |
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26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -18 | 25 | LDLLW |
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28 | 6 | 7 | 15 | -23 | 25 | LDLLD |
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28 | 7 | 3 | 18 | -21 | 24 | LLWLL |
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28 | 6 | 6 | 16 | -26 | 24 | LLWLL |
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26 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -19 | 22 | LWLWW |
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Goals scored | 1.4 |
Goals conceded | 2.2 |
Time first goal scored | 52 |
Time first goal conceded | 38 |
Yellow cards | 1.5 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 2.7 |
Biggest victory | 4-2 |
Biggest defeat | 5-1 |
Goals scored | 1.6 |
Goals conceded | 0.6 |
Time first goal scored | 34 |
Time first goal conceded | 50 |
Yellow cards | 1.5 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3.1 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 2-1 |
Kane Hemmings | 9 |
Lucas Akins | 6 |
John Brayford | 3 |
Joe Powell | 3 |
Sam Hughes | 2 |
Charlie Wyke | 19 |
Grant Leadbitter | 6 |
Chris Maguire | 4 |
Lynden Gooch | 3 |
Aiden O'Brien | 3 |
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