Saturday 14th March 2026Sunderland v Brighton – Premier LeagueStadium of Gentle – Kick-Off: 15:00Tickets & Match Protection
Tickets: Tickets are offered out.
TV/Stream: Full stay match protection is unavailable.
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Radio: Full stay match commentary out there through BBC Radio Newcastle (not on-line)
The build-up…
Sunderland taking up Brighton is one in all simply two Premier League video games kicking off at 3pm at this time on Saturday afternoon – the opposite being Bournemouth’s journey to Burnley. Arsenal entertain Everton and the guests tackle Chelsea at 5.30pm and West Ham tackle Citeh at 8pm tonight, with all three of these video games – together with 4 on Sunday and one on Monday – all being televised.
We’re one in all 4 groups out of twenty not being televised this weekend, and so they surprise why followers look to various strategies of viewing fixtures once you see this form of bias.
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Anyway, on to the sport itself and on a day when the Basis of Gentle celebrates its twenty fifth birthday, we will assume that Enzo Le Fée can even make his fiftieth Sunderland look at this time in what all of us hope is a sport that enables us to place a few issues behind us.
Everyone seems to be anticipating a response to the defeat final week towards Port Vale, and this consists of Régis Le Bris who said “I hope so” at his press convention on being questioned whether or not we’ll see one, whereas he additionally highlighted the dearth of consistency we’re seeing over current weeks.
It’s additionally reacting to nearly six weeks since we final took three factors at dwelling. The 2 defeats towards Liverpool and Fulham imply we have to look again to the go to of Burnley firstly of final month since we gained on dwelling soil.
After sitting out final week by way of suspension, Trai Hume and Noah Sadiki return to the fold and can possible be within the beginning line-up. Brian Brobbey and Dennis Cirkin have been seeing how coaching on Friday went first earlier than they decide on their involvement, and Le Bris overtly stated how they have been managing Xhaka’s involvement in video games.
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There’s additionally the journey up the street subsequent week that followers could keep in mind, however chances are high Le Bris will solely be centered on going all out to gather three factors this afternoon.
It’s simple to overlook that Brighton have now been within the Premier League for 9 successive years – which makes it all of the weirder to assume we’ve solely taken them on as soon as on the Stadium of Gentle this century. We have to return to October 2004 when a Julio Arca opener and a Liam Lawrence penalty gave the Lads all three factors within the second tier.
The assembly earlier than that on Wearside was in 1992 at Roker Park, when Anton Rogan’s debut led to a 4–2 win for Denis Smith’s Sunderland – with John Byrne scoring for the Seagulls that day. The purpose being that since this fixture on Wearside has occurred twice within the final 34 years, it’s not one thing we see fairly often.
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Brighton haven’t completed decrease than eleventh within the high flight over the past 4 years, which is a few achievement, particularly when you may throw in an FA Cup semi-final look in that point. Which means that followers may nicely ask the query of what it takes to take that subsequent step of their journey, and as they sat fifth within the desk firstly of December, they could have thought this was the time.
Three wins within the sixteen video games which have adopted have dented these hopes considerably, and so they now discover themselves three locations and three factors worse off than ourselves and questions are being requested, particularly when the model of soccer isn’t one thing the supervisor can level to so as to assist his trigger.
Solely 4 sides have a worse away report than Brighton this yr, and to place it into perspective we’ve taken yet one more level having performed yet one more sport on the street. However, final day trip they did journey to high-flying Brentford and beat them 2-0, so they might nicely journey to Wearside with a little bit of confidence.
The bookies have the Lads at 9/4 to win the sport, whereas Brighton are priced at 6/5, and the draw is 9/4.
Face to face… at Sunderland
(All competitions)
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Final time we met… on the Stadium of LightSaturday thirtieth October 2004ChampionshipSunderland 2-0 Brighton
[Arca 64’, Lawrence (pen) 82’]
Sunderland: Myhre, Wright, Breen, Caldwell, Collins, Lawrence, Robinson, Whitley (Whitehead), Arca, Elliott (Brown), Stewart (Bridges) Substitutes not used: Alnwick, Carter
Brighton: Kuipers, El-Abd (Jarrett), Harding, Cullip, Butters, Carpenter, Hammond (Hart), Oatway, Knight, Hinshelwood, Currie Substitutes not used: Could, Mayo, Robinson
Attendance: 25,532
Two sides that don’t rating many targets, and the reverse fixture was a goalless draw – so I reckon we’ll nick it with the one aim of the sport.