📊 Form Guide

Sunderland

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Sunderland will be wanting a better result here following a 2-0 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Oxford United.

In that match, Sunderland managed 69% possession and 10 shots at goal with 0 on target. Oxford United got 17 shots on goal with 4 on target. Ben Nelson (29') and Michał Helik (48') scored for Oxford United.

Sunderland have really struggled up front of late. Their goals record equals just 2 against opposing sides during their previous six fixtures. In those meetings, Sunderland have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them come to 6. In any event, it remains to be seen if the trend will be sustained in this next game.

Their prior results show that Sunderland:

• have not been beaten in the league by Queens Park Rangers in their last 5 matches.
• are winless against Queens Park Rangers in their previous 2 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 matches in the league.

Queens Park Rangers

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After a loss in their previous game against Burnley in Championship action, QPR and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Queens Park Rangers had 38% possession and 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. Burnley had 16 shots at goal with 10 on target. Josh Cullen (9'), Zian Flemming (20', 28') and Jeremy Sarmiento (62', 92') scored for Burnley.

The stats don’t lie, and QPR have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 10 goals in total. In defence, Queens Park Rangers seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Their past results show that Queens Park Rangers:

• haven't beaten Sunderland when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten by Sunderland when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. A very good run of results for them.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head clashes going back to 26/10/2021 shows that Sunderland have won 2 of these & QPR 0, with the number of drawn results being 4.

A combined sum of 11 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 8 of them from The Black Cats and 3 being from The R's. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Championship match day 13 on 02/11/2024 and the score finished Queens Park Rangers 0-0 Sunderland.

On that day, Queens Park Rangers had 60% possession and 16 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

Sunderland got 8 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Ben Toner.

📋 Team News: Sunderland

Aji Alese (Broken leg), Daniel Ballard (Hamstring injury) and Niall Huggins (Knee surgery) will not be taking part for Sunderland manager Régis Le Bris.

In all likelihood, The Black Cats may well opt for a 4-2-3-1 system for this game with Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Chris Mepham, Luke O'Nien, Dennis Cirkin, Daniel Neil, Jobe Bellingham, Patrick Roberts, Chris Rigg, Enzo Le Fee and Eliezer Mayenda.

ℹ️ Team News: QPR

QPR boss Martí Cifuentes has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Zan Celar (Hamstring injury), Jake Clarke-Salter (Hip injury) and Harvey Vale (Back injury) will not be playing here.

There’s a good chance that The R's could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Paul Nardi, Jimmy Dunne, Liam Morrison, Ronnie Edwards, Kenneth Paal, Jonathan Varane, Jack Colback, Ilias Chair, Nicolas Madsen, Karamoko Dembele and Michael Frey.

💭 Prediction

Our feeling is that Sunderland will probably dominate possession and create several successful chances.

In contrast, Queens Park Rangers are also probably going to find it difficult to score themselves but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be managing to get on the scoresheet as well here.

We reckon that it will be a decent 3-1 win for Sunderland when all’s said and done.

Peter Guest, 11:03 03/05/2025