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Sunderland travel to the Molineux Stadium to face Wolves in the Premier League.
Last time out Sunderland lost at home to Forest beat and Wolves lost at home to Spurs.
Sunderland lost 5-0 at home to Nottingham Forest, who took a huge step towards Premier League survival with a big win at Sunderland to go eight points clear of the bottom three. The visitors opened the scoring in the 17th minute when Igor Jesus' back-post header deflected in off Sunderland defender Trai Hume.
They doubled their lead in the 31st minute after Sunderland goalkeeper Robin Roefs' pass was intercepted and Chris Wood was able to finish.
Three minutes later Morgan Gibbs-White powerfully found the bottom corner after being teed up by Igor Jesus' header.
In the 37th minute the Brazil striker smashed a loose ball into the net following a corner.
And Forest netted a fifth in second-half stoppage time through Elliot Anderson's low strike on the counter-attack.
Joao Palhinha's late strike earned Tottenham their first Premier League win since December but failed to ease their relegation fears. Roberto de Zerbi's side looked like climbing out of the drop zone after substitute Palhinha prodded in from close range at already relegated Wolves only for Callum Wilson's strike to earn the Hammers an injury-time victory in their match.
The nerves from the visitors were obvious as they looked for a first top-flight win since December but they still dominated a forgettable first half, although desperately lacked quality.
They had little to build on at the break and Simons wasted a good chance when he fired over after skipping past Matt Doherty before he was carried off with a knee injury.
Jose Sa's fine stop denied Rodrigo Bentancur but Palhinha forced in the winner with seven minutes left and Kinsky's injury-time save from Joao Gomes sealed victory.
Regis le Bris:
“When we are not at the level expected you get punished really quickly because they have good players and are well organised and pressed well, they were really efficient on set pieces.
“We tried to play under pressure, probably with a bit of naivety because it wasn’t possible, so the game was really open and we conceded first.”
“Yeah, we have a set up with different layers I can’t say that it worked because it’s clear that they targeted thus area. Its not the first time this season to be fair and we thought about adaptations but today it didn’t work.”
“You can’t complain, you can’t look for excuses, you just have to go forward and in the second half this was the ambition, at least a fight, at least show you have a strong energy, you are proud to be a Sunderland player and our fans they are behind us.
Press Conference:
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Rob Edwards:
“Considering what’s happened to us this week, I thought the players fought really hard, and more than matched that intense effort.
“In the second half, we were the better team, we were pushing, and it really hurts to concede in the manner that we did and lose the game.”
“It was going to be a moment of magic, a free-kick that could go in the top corner, or it was going to be second phase from the corner, where one or two people just switched off, and it’s a really tight offside call.”
Form:
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Match Appointments:
Referee: PAUL TIERNEY
Assistant Referee: Richard West
Assistant Referee: Scott Ledger
Fourth Official: Samuel Allison
Video Assistant Referee: Matthew Donohue
Additional Video Assistant Referee: Wade Smith
Team Lineups:
Sunderland AFC: Roefs, Mukiele, Ballard, Alderete, Reinildo, Sadiki, Xhaka, Le Fee, Rigg, Talbi, Brobbey.
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Subs: Ellborg, O’Nien, Cirkin, Hume, Geertruida, Diarra, Angulo, Mayenda, Isidor.
Injured: Mundle, Traore, Jocelyn.
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC: Jose Sa, Gomes, Bueno, Doherty, Bueno, Andre, Joao Gomes, Pedro Lima, Mateus Mane, Rodrigo Gomes, Armstrong.
Substitutes: A.Gomes, Arokedare, Bellegarde, Bentley, Edozie, Huang Hee-Chan, Moller Wolfe, Olangunju, Tchatchoua.
Injured: Johnstone, Mosquera, Medina, Krejci.
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Betting Odds:
Sunderland 13/10 Wolves 21/10 Draw 9/4
My two pence:
Hopefully it can’t get any worse than our last game.
Wolves are already relegated with only pride to play for, we need to be on our game to get a result here, they did cause us a lot of problems early on at the SoL despite the 2-0 win. They still have a problem taking their chances and may that continue at the weekend.
I’m going for a 1-0 away win.
Live Stream:
TBC
Ha’way the Lads
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