📏 Form Guide

Sunderland

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Sunderland prepare for this match coming off the back of a 1-1 Premier League tied result versus Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In that game, Sunderland had 42% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sunderland was Nordi Mukiele (17'). Wolverhampton Wanderers had 20 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Santiago Bueno (54') scored for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

It has been seldom in recent games where Sunderland haven’t conceded. The reality is that Sunderland have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 12 goals along the way. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, however.

Ahead of this meeting, Sunderland are winless against Manchester United in their last 3 matches in the league.

Manchester United

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Manchester United will go into this game after a 3-2 Premier League win with the downing of Liverpool in their most recent match.

In that game, Manchester United had 38% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Manchester United, goals were scored by Cunha (6'), Benjamin Šeško (14') and Kobbie Mainoo (77'). On the other side, Liverpool had 13 shots at goal with 5 on target. Dominik Szoboszlai (47') and Cody Gakpo (56') scored for Liverpool.

Manchester United have attacked well leading up to this encounter, having scored 12 times in their last 6 matches. Having said that, Manchester United have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 5 of those same outings.

Going into this contest, Manchester United haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head meetings going back to 28/02/2015 tells us that Sunderland have won 1 of these and Manchester United 5, with the number of draws being 0.

In all, 17 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 3 for The Black Cats and 14 being from The Red Devils. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The last league contest between the two was Premier League match day 7 on 04/10/2025 when it finished Manchester United 2-0 Sunderland.

That day, Manchester United had 51% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Mason Mount (8') and Benjamin Šeško (31').

At the other end, Sunderland had 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

The referee was Stuart Attwell.

🗞️ Team News: Sunderland

Simon Moore (Broken hand), Romaine Mundle (Hamstring injury), Nilson Angulo (Muscle injury) and Bertrand Traoré (Knee injury) won’t be able to feature for Sunderland boss Régis Le Bris. Dan Ballard is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

We are thinking that The Black Cats look set to line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for the game, beginning the first half with Robin Roefs, Nordi Mukiele, Lutsharel Geertruida, Omar Alderete, Reinildo, Noah Sadiki, Granit Xhaka, Trai Hume, Enzo Le Fee, Chemsdine Talbi and Brian Brobbey.

📰 Team News: Manchester United

We’re of the thinking that The Red Devils will likely utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Senne Lammens, Noussair Mazraoui, Harry Maguire, Lisandro Martinez, Luke Shaw, Bruno Fernandes, Kobbie Mainoo, Amad, Mason Mount, Matheus Cunha and Joshua Zirkzee.

💡 Prediction

Sunderland will really need to work well to put one past this Manchester United side who we think should score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore predicting a hard-fought 0-1 advantage for Manchester United at the end of this game.

Should be interesting.

Andre Moura, 13:07 09/05/2026