Sunderland vs Hull City Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Sunderland

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Sunderland enter this fixture following a 0-0 League One drawn result against Northampton Town.

Their more recent scorelines reveal that there has been much resilience in the Sunderland defence. The Black Cats have been stingy, resulting in the number of goals that have gone in at their end during their previous six games standing at 4. We shall soon find out if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Heading into this contest, Sunderland are unbeaten in the league by Hull City in their last 5 games.

Hull City

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Hull City will go into this clash after a 2-0 League One win to beat Charlton Athletic in their previous game.

For Hull City, the goals were scored by Hakeeb Adelakun (18') and Greg Docherty (75').

For 5 of the previous six clashes featuring Hull City, a comparatively low number of goals have gone in between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game during that period comes to just 2, with the average goals for The Tigers equalling 0.83.

Their prior results show that Hull City:

• have not registered a win against Sunderland when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 03/03/2015 shows that Sunderland have won 3 of them & Hull City 0, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.

A sum of 10 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 8 from The Black Cats and 2 being from The Tigers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.67.

📋 Team News: Sunderland

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the lone fitness concern for the Sunderland boss Lee Johnson to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Arbenit Xhemajli (Cruciate Ligament Surgery) misses out.

ℹ️ Team News: Hull City

Thanks to a fully healthy group available to choose from, Hull City manager Grant McCann doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this game.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Hull City should get enough chances to put one past this Sunderland team, but that probably won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We are anticipating a 2-1 winning margin for Sunderland when all is said and done. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 15:01 09/01/2021