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Predictions and Tips
The Championship meeting at Stadium of Light on Saturday will see home side Sunderland welcome guests Swansea City.
All Sunderland v Swansea City match predictions, user poll and stats are shown below - as well as the best betting odds.
📏 Form Guide

Sunderland
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Sunderland enter this match after a 0-0 Championship drawn game vs Norwich City.
In that game, Sunderland had 44% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Norwich City had 11 shots on goal with 4 on target.
Over their preceding 6 fixtures, Régis Le Bris's Sunderland have hit the target 5 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match of 0.83.
Going into this encounter, Sunderland are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches at home.
Swansea City
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Swansea City go into this encounter following a 3-0 Championship win in the defeat of Plymouth Argyle in their most recent fixture.
In that match, Swansea City managed 70% possession and 18 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Swansea City, the scorers were Lewis O'Brien (4'), Harry Darling (22') and Josh Key (35'). Plymouth Argyle got 6 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.
Over the course of 5 of the previous 6 games involving Swansea City, a relatively low number of goals have been struck between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game within that period comes out as a paltry 1.5, with the number of goals averaged by The Swans being 0.67. That aside, time will tell if that pattern will be replicated in this next game.
Pre-game facts show that Swansea City:
- have not lost to Sunderland when they have played them away from home in the previous 7 league games. A very good record, indeed.
- are without an away win for the past 4 league matches.
↔️ Head to head
Inspecting their prior head to head meetings going back to 13/05/2017 shows that Sunderland have won 1 of these games & Swansea City 4, with the tally of drawn games being 1.
An aggregate of 17 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 for The Black Cats and 11 being from The Swans. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.
The previous league meeting between these sides was Championship match day 21 on 14/12/2024 and the score finished Swansea City 2-3 Sunderland.
In that game, Swansea City had 54% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Goals were scored by Žan Vipotnik (5') and Liam Cullen (17').
Sunderland got 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Daniel Ballard (28'), Dan Neil (73') and Jobe Bellingham (75') scored.
The match was refereed by Andy Davies.
📰 Team News: Sunderland
Aji Alese (Broken leg), Daniel Ballard (Hamstring injury), Niall Huggins (Knee surgery) and Salis Abdul Samed (Muscle injury) are unavailable for Sunderland manager Régis Le Bris.
🗞️ Team News: Swansea City
Swansea City manager Alan Sheehan has to choose a team with limited availability. Kristian Pedersen (Hamstring injury) and Myles Peart-Harris (Back injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.
💡 Prediction
We believe that Sunderland can be able to score a couple against Swansea City, who might well find it a difficult task to find the back of the net.
Our tip is for a comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Sunderland at the end of the 90 minutes.
Victor Martins, 13:03 12/04/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ Team Focus:
Sunderland
Formed: 1879
Stadium: Stadium of Light (49,000)
Captain: Dan Neil
Chairman: Kyril Louis-Dreyfus
Manager: Régis Le Bris
Competitions: Championship position 4
🔑 Key Player: Wilson Isidor
Customarily taking to the field in the Striker position, Wilson Isidor was born in Rennes, France. After making a first senior appearance for Monaco in the 2018 - 2019 season, the goalscoring Forward has managed 12 league goals in this Championship 2024 - 2025 season to date from a total of 37 appearances.
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42 | 25 | 13 | 4 | 53 | 88 | DDDWW |
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42 | 24 | 16 | 2 | 44 | 88 | WWWDW |
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42 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 83 | WWLLL |
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41 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 20 | 76 | DLWWD |
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41 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 63 | DWLWW |
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41 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 62 | LWLLW |
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41 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 60 | WDWWL |
8 |
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41 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 57 | DDLLL |
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41 | 15 | 12 | 14 | -1 | 57 | LWLWW |
10 |
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41 | 16 | 8 | 17 | -4 | 56 | WLDLW |
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42 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 53 | LWLDL |
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41 | 15 | 8 | 18 | -1 | 53 | LLLLD |
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41 | 14 | 11 | 16 | -7 | 53 | WLDLD |
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41 | 14 | 9 | 18 | -7 | 51 | LLDWW |
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41 | 12 | 13 | 16 | -6 | 49 | LDLDW |
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42 | 10 | 19 | 13 | -8 | 49 | WLDDL |
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41 | 12 | 9 | 20 | -16 | 45 | LLWLL |
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41 | 11 | 12 | 18 | -18 | 45 | LWLWL |
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41 | 11 | 11 | 19 | -9 | 44 | WDLWL |
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41 | 10 | 14 | 17 | -12 | 44 | WLWDD |
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41 | 11 | 9 | 21 | -10 | 42 | WWWLD |
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41 | 9 | 15 | 17 | -20 | 42 | LWDDD |
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41 | 10 | 10 | 21 | -25 | 40 | WDWDD |
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42 | 9 | 13 | 20 | -38 | 40 | LDWLW |
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Goals scored | 1.6 |
Goals conceded | 0.8 |
Time first goal scored | 29 |
Time first goal conceded | 39 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 3 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 1-0 |
Goals scored | 0.8 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 44 |
Time first goal conceded | 44 |
Yellow cards | 1.9 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 4.2 |
Biggest victory | 2-1 |
Biggest defeat | 5-1 |
Wilson Isidor | 12 |
Eliezer Mayenda | 8 |
Romaine Mundle | 5 |
Jobe Bellingham | 4 |
Chris Rigg | 4 |
Liam Cullen | 10 |
Žan Vipotnik | 7 |
Harry Darling | 4 |
Florian Bianchini | 3 |
Myles Peart-Harris | 3 |
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