Match Preview: Sunderland v Crystal Palace — The Lads Return To Premier League Motion!

Saturday seventeenth January 2026Sunderland v Crystal Palace – Premier LeagueStadium of Gentle Kick-Off: 15:00Tickets & Match Protection

Tickets: Tickets are offered out.

TV/Stream: Full dwell match protection is just not accessible within the UK.

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Radio: Full dwell match commentary accessible by way of BBC Radio Newcastle (not on-line)

The build-up…

It felt like final week was simply what we wanted in some methods. Like if you simply want a day off work and you’re feeling all the higher for it – in that sense it feels good to get again to the bread and butter of the Premier League.

Crystal Palace are the guests to the Stadium of Gentle in a fixture we haven’t seen on Wearside for nearly 9 and a half years. On that event, David Moyes and Alan Pardew have been within the dugouts and after taking a 2-0 lead on the hour by way of a Jermain Defoe brace, we misplaced 3-2. The truth is, we haven’t come out on prime of their previous 5 visits and we’ve got to return to 2003 to seek out our final dwelling victory towards them within the league.

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However again to the trendy day and each golf equipment go into the sport trying to get again to successful methods with Palace in search of their first in six video games and the Lads have one victory on the board within the final six – towards the guests.

Regardless of the actual fact Palace are solely three locations and two factors beneath Sunderland within the desk, there’s a special really feel in regards to the golf equipment in the meanwhile that was evident on the eve of the sport.

The highest two soccer tales broke when Marc Guéhi agreed a £20m deal to affix Man Metropolis and was withdrawn from the squad for the weekend, after which Oliver Glasner introduced he was leaving on the finish of the season. It might have been the worst-kept secret in soccer, however the announcement of a supervisor leaving months upfront hardly ever has a constructive impact.

Sunderland alternatively are nearly at full energy, apart from Traoré (and to a lesser extent Masuaku), which suggests Le Bris has some powerful choices, particularly on the again the place we’re spoilt for selection. Will this result in 4 or 5 on the again?

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Immediately is a run of three video games, with West Ham away and Burnley at dwelling to observe the place we are able to probably be near that magical 40-point mark by the point we go to Arsenal on February seventh.

The betting…

The bookies have the Lads at 23/10 to win the sport, whereas Everton are priced at 23/20, and the draw is 2/1.

Face to face… at Sunderland

(All competitions)

Final time we met… on the Stadium of LightSaturday twenty fourth September 2016Premier League

Stadium of Gentle

Sunderland 2-3 Crystal Palace

[Defoe 39’, 60’ – Ledley 61’, McArthur 76’, Benteke 90’]

Sunderland: Pickford, Manquillo, Kone, Djilobodji, Kirchoff, van Aanholt, Cattermole (McNair), Ndong, Pienaar (Watmore), Januzaj (Anichebe) Substitutes not used: Mika, Denayer, O’Shea, Khazri

Crystal Palace: Mandanda, Ward, Kelly (Fryers), Ledley, Tomkins, Delaney, Puncheon (Lee), McArthur, Benteke, Cabaye (Wickham), Townsend Substitutes not used: Hennessey, Wynter, Mutch, Sako

Attendance: 38,941

Prediction…Sunderland 2-0 Crystal Palace

In case you listened to the preview this morning, you should have heard a full home for a 2-0 win, and who am I to argue?

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