Sunderland vs Southampton - Saturday 2nd May K.O. 3:00PM

Team news:
Sunderland:
Fletcher could return to the squad. Brown, Alvarez and Giaccherini will miss out.

Southampton:
Rodriguez has returned to training, but will miss out, as will Forster. Schneiderlin is a doubt with a knee injury. Djuricic could return to the squad. Wanyama returns from his 2 game suspension.

Form:
Sunderland: DLWLLD

Southampton: DLWLWD

Line-ups:
Sunderland
Pantilimon
O'Shea Vergini Jones Van Aanholt
Johnson Cattermole Rodwell Larsson
Wickham Defoe

Southampton:
Davis
Clyne Fonte Alderweireld Bertrand
Schneiderlin Wanyama
Mane Ward-Prowse Tadic
Pelle

Match Officials:
Referee: Mike Jones
Assistant Referee 1: M Scholes
Assistant Referee 2: I Hussin
Fourth Official: R Madley

Prediction: 0-8.
COYR!

 

Your prediction is 8-0 to Sunderland?????!!!!!!!!!

 

The tank is back!

 

1 better than last time, 9-0 please

 

I think this will be as dull as dishwater. 0-1 Saints.

 

Wow, this is a serious game for Sunderland. I reckon Kelvin Davis is looking forward to it.

 

I reckon we could put 3 or 4 past them. If we score early make that 5 or 6. Or 7. Or 8.

 

My honest/gut feeling prediction is either 4-0 Saints or 1-0 Sunderland.

 

Sunderland 0 Saints 2

 

I'll take any win away at the moment. Haven't won since QPR, and this is one we should be looking to get 3 points from.

If Toby is still nursing that shoulder problem, I'm quite happy with Maya and Jose at CB.

 

Looking at the training Gallery, no Jose, no Tadic and of course no Spider.

 

No Jose Say it ain't so.

 

Press conference & interviews with Ronald will be up tomorrow, and there is usually a gallery of the training too. We will see.

 

Massive pressure on the home team. If we can get a early goal their fans will turn nasty

 

Going to this one. Want a Saints win but don't want Sunderland to go down. My nearest game, assuming Boro don't go up. After last years results against Sunderland I don't expect an easy game. They got a draw against Stoke so did better than us. Will take a scruffy 1-0.

 

Horrible feeling that this will finish 1-0 to the home team, hope I'm wrong.

 

A win here would be huge. Liverpool and Spuds still have tricky away games to come so 3 points would give us a great chance of finishing 5th.

 

Can see it being two things, very frustrating, or a thunderous away win. If we score early then very much on for the latter. Really glad pelle has got some form about him now in the goals department, although I don't thnk he has an away league goal since west ham. Hopefully that can change ! 0-3 saints.

 

Away to WHU, damn that was long ago, is that really correct?

 

I'd go for something like this:

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No point risking Toby or Morgan if they are both struggling with injuries as I'd rather that they were fully fit for the coming games.