Martin Wanless predicts…
Rating prediction: Sunderland 1 Liverpool 0
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Diarra
We don’t have to worry anybody on the Stadium of Gentle and Liverpool’s away file suggests we’ve bought an excellent probability of getting one thing tonight.
After all, it’ll be extremely powerful, however Liverpool will be overwhelmed, and I feel we are able to safe all three factors tonight.
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Granted, the bookies could have Liverpool as favourites, and rightly so, however below the lights at house, we are able to trigger a shock, and if we play to our strengths, we are able to safe all three factors.
Habib Diarra to get the winner.
‘The Champion’ Malc Dugdale predicts…
Rating prediction: Sunderland 1 Liverpool 0
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brobbey
This might nicely be a really powerful night, however we’ve got it in us to get a win, or not less than a draw if the followers and the crew rise to their finest as one.
I shall be there with my lad and my Uncle, so I’m hoping the mid-week night journey from Cambridgeshire is made further worthwhile with an enormous W for the lads.
Liverpool have as many points with lacking workers as us, however they’ve established a depth of their squad that we don’t but have. However after a loss like their final house one, we are able to rattle them.
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I feel we’ll absorb the primary half hour, get a objective from the unit that’s Brian Brobbey within the early second half, after which survive the onslaught via the skills of Ballard, Mukiele, Alderete, Reinildo and Roefs.
Simple.
Rating prediction: Sunderland 2 Liverpool 1
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Enzo Le Fée
I’m trying ahead to getting again the Fortress of Gentle, after we realized a lesson away at Arsenal.
For all we did nicely, and there was loads of it, we weren’t fairly ruthless sufficient and ended up outclassed by the seemingly champions elect.
We are able to’t let that have an effect on us, and deal with a stuttering Liverpool crew who’re ripe for the taking. We have been unfortunate to not take all three factors at Anfield, and I feel our physicality, tempo and willpower will bowl them over.
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Dominik Szoboszlai’s pink card is a lift, not solely due to his high quality, but in addition resulting from Liverpool’s ongoing proper again disaster (see additionally: Liverpool’s pursuit of Lutsharel Geertruida).
I feel we’ll method the sport equally to the Arsenal one, however Liverpool will lack that burst of high quality Arsenal had, and we’ll come out on high.
Rating prediction: Sunderland 1 Liverpool 1
Sunderland’s First Purpose Scorer : Brobbey
We confirmed at Anfield we are able to stay with them, and even within the Arsenal recreation, there have been spells the place we appeared like a high, high crew. At house, below the lights, we often elevate it a stage, however Liverpool nonetheless have sufficient high quality to punish any slack moments.
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In any occasion, lacking one other forward-thinking participant in Szoboszlai, with perhaps their sixth alternative RB? Coming to an unbeaten SOL? Removed from excellent for them.
Appears like a kind of nights the place we go toe‑to‑toe, land a couple of punches, take a couple of, and are available out with one thing to indicate for it. Brobbey to tough them up early, and we seize a tough‑earned level, holding the unbeaten file alive, and ticking over nonetheless within the high half after a couple of horrible video games.
Rating prediction: Sunderland 1 Liverpool 2
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brobbey
Regardless of the consequence, I used to be happy with how we performed towards what appears like this 12 months’s league winners.
Tonight, we play final 12 months’s winners, Liverpool, who come off a late, gut-punching loss to Man Metropolis.
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They’ve not been the Liverpool of seasons earlier than, with their title defence going out with a whimper.
They’ll be lacking a couple of tonight, particularly Szoboszlai after his late pink. I feel the entire of Wearside will breathe a sigh of reduction after his gorgeous free kick.
I might like to see us shield our unbeaten run at house, however I really feel our first defeat on the SoL is imminent.
Rating prediction: Sunderland 2 Liverpool 1
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brobbey
Pay attention, I understand how it appears.
We’ve simply been walloped by an incredible Arsenal facet, and Liverpool are coming off the again of a very disappointing defeat towards Man Metropolis.
Liverpool’s solely actual top-grade participant this season, Szoboszlai, is suspended for this one, they usually’ll must look elsewhere for inspiration (not that they don’t have an abundance of expertise to look to, in fact)!
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Nonetheless, I feel the lads shall be on the comeback bounce themselves after the 3-0 consequence flattered Arsenal, actually.
I count on the crew to be prepared for the problem Liverpool creates and throw us straight again into the European locations by inflicting an upset!
The followers shall be on high voice too, despite the fact that it’ll be previous my bedtime, I’ll nonetheless be there bellowing like a madman!
HAWAY THE LAAAAAAAAAAADS!
Rating prediction: Sunderland 1 Liverpool 1
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brobbey
I believed we performed fairly nicely at Arsenal, and it was an actual disgrace to come back away with a consequence that appears like we bought hammered. We took the sport to them in spells and have been undone by some high quality targets.
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Liverpool are the following crew as much as attempt to take away our unbeaten house file, they usually pose a severe menace. They appear to be taking part in higher, however they arrive into this recreation in blended type, with one league win in 2026 – an excellent 4-1 demolition of the mags. Regardless that they’ve been common at finest away from house within the league, they nonetheless possess the standard to trigger us issues. It’ll definitely assist that Szoboszlai is suspended, they usually’ll hopefully have had the wind knocked out of them following Man Metropolis’s late comeback at Anfield.
I feel we are able to get some extent tonight and preserve the house run going. Brobbey ought to as soon as once more be an absolute ache and may get on the scoresheet if he opts to put on a paper shirt, as that’s the one factor that appears to permit defenders to nullify him.
Rating prediction: Sunderland 1 Liverpool 0
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brobbey
It was a tricky one on Saturday, displaying the large gulf from backside to high of the league.
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You make errors versus the massive boys, and also you get punished.
On their day, Liverpool will be the identical; they don’t seem to be in nice type, and we’ve got no motive to worry them.
We’ll, although, should be at our greatest to maintain our proud unbeaten house file.
Up to now this season, each loss has adopted by a win, and I feel that type will proceed in entrance of one other sold-out Stadium of Gentle crowd.
The lads battled onerous away at The Emirates however got here away with a loss which flattered the hosts and didn’t in any respect mirror the powerful recreation we gave The Gunners.
Had the one or two probabilities we had gone one other means, or perhaps if a penalty had been awarded (which we deserved not less than one in all, however didn’t get), then perhaps we may have gotten one thing.
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You do typically have to simply accept, nevertheless, that the standard we have been going through, particularly away from house, was only a bit an excessive amount of of a stretch for us proper now.
Possibly not later on this mission, and perhaps much less so if our stellar skipper was out there to go to his outdated gaff, however proper now, a bridge a bit of too far.
Tonight we tackle final season’s champions proper after they suffered a defeat they in all probability really feel they didn’t deserve, particularly after that a lot clipped surprise objective.
These video games are 90 minutes plus extra time each time, and we’ve got proven we play “Til The Finish”, so perhaps tonight is the evening we are able to write one other nice chapter on this season’s record, by displaying Liverpool it isn’t simply Man Metropolis who can flip them over late on.
Solely one of many lads bought the complete 4 factors final time round, with Will foreseeing the 3-0 loss most precisely.
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Matty and Gary bought a pair every for the precise end result and appropriately predicting we wouldn’t get it within the Arsenal onion sack.
The remainder of the lads bought nowt, however are hoping for various outcomes this night for positive.
Will’s 4-pointer launches him into the lead by two, with Gary behind, and Malc 2 factors additional again.
The two-point hole sample continues right down to joint fifth, with Martin and Gair breaking the mannequin in the direction of the underside of the desk.
Only a fast reminder of how we allocate factors to our match-by-match predictions:
Appropriate rating = Three factors
Appropriate end result (however not appropriate rating) = One level
Appropriate first Sunderland goalscorer = One level (no goalscorer is a legitimate name)
Doable deductions for being lazy and never submitting on time = a two-point deduction.