Sunderland vs Fleetwood Town Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Sunderland

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Sunderland will be looking for another win after a 0-3 League One victory vs Burton Albion.

For Sunderland, goals were scored by Grant Leadbitter (6'), Lynden Gooch (32') and Charlie Wyke (76').

Three or more goals per game were recorded in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Sunderland have been involved. Opposition teams scored 6 times in these games whereas The Black Cats managed a tally of 14. Regardless, we must now wait to see whether that pattern will persist in this game.

Heading into this contest, Sunderland haven't been beaten in the league by Fleetwood Town in their last 3 matches.

Fleetwood Town

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Last time out, Fleetwood Town drew 1-1 in the League One tie with Charlton Athletic.

The only name on the scoresheet from Fleetwood Town was Paddy Madden (41'). Jayden Stockley (6') was the scorer for Charlton Athletic.

For 5 of the previous six games featuring Fleetwood Town, a relatively low number of goals have been struck between them and opposing teams. The overall average number of goals per game during that spell comes out as a meagre 1.33, with the number of goals averaged by The Fishermen equalling 0.67.

A look at their previous results shows us that Fleetwood Town:

• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head clashes going back to 08/09/2018 tells us that Sunderland have won 0 of them and Fleetwood Town 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 4.

A combined total of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 6 of them for The Black Cats and 8 created by The Fishermen. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The previous league game between the two was League One match day 14 on 27/11/2020 which finished with the scoreline of Fleetwood Town 1-1 Sunderland.

The referee was Bobby Madley.

🗞️ Team News: Sunderland

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the lone fitness concern for the Sunderland boss Lee Johnson to contend with from an otherwise complete group of players. Arbenit Xhemajli (Cruciate Ligament Surgery) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Fleetwood Town

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad available to select from, Fleetwood Town boss Simon Grayson has zero fitness worries at all before this game.

🧠 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Fleetwood Town should have enough to find the net against this Sunderland outfit, however that isn’t expected to be enough to avoid a loss.

Our tip is for a very close game with a 2-1 winning score for Sunderland when the full-time whistle blows. Looking forward to this.

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Peter Guest, 00:12 19/02/2021