Championship

Championship | Gameweek 22

Dec 21, 2024 at 3pm UK

Stadium of Light

Sunderland
2 - 1
Norwich

Ballard (47'), Bellingham (72')
O'Nien (39'), Isidor (42'), Mepham (49'), Cirkin (57'), Ballard (68')

FT(HT: 0-1)

Ben Slimane (21')
Cordoba (42'), Doyle (53'), Ben Slimane (56'), Nunez (60')
Cordoba (70')

The Match

Preview

Sports Mole previews Saturday's Championship clash between Sunderland and Norwich City, including predictions, team news and possible lineups.

Form, Standings, Stats

Sunderland

All competitions

Last Game: Swansea 2-3 Sunderland
Saturday, December 14 at 3pm in Championship

Goals
for

Norwich City

All competitions

Last Game: Norwich 1-2 Burnley
Sunday, December 15 at 3pm in Championship

Goals
for

Data Analysis

Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Sunderland win with a probability of 48.74%. A win for Norwich City had a probability of 26.05% and a draw had a probability of 25.2%.

The most likely scoreline for a Sunderland win was 1-0 with a probability of 11.14%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 2-1 (9.4%) and 2-0 (8.74%). The likeliest Norwich City win was 0-1 (7.64%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (11.98%). The actual scoreline of 2-1 was predicted with a 9.4% likelihood. Our team at Sports Mole correctly predicted a 2-1 win for Sunderland in this match and our data analysis correctly predicted the win for Sunderland.

Result
Sunderland	Draw	Norwich City
48.74% ( 0.07)	25.21% ( -0.02)	26.05% ( -0.05)

Both teams to score 52.17% (

0.02)

Goals

Over 2.5

Under 2.5

49.27% (

0.05)

50.73% (

-0.05)

Over 3.5

Under 3.5

27.37% (

0.04)

72.62% (

-0.04)

Sunderland Goals

Over 0.5

Under 0.5

79.17% (

0.05)

20.83% (

-0.05)

Over 1.5

Under 1.5

46.5% (

0.08)

53.5% (

-0.08)

Norwich City Goals

Over 0.5

Under 0.5

65.9% (

-0.02)

34.1% (

0.02)

Over 1.5

Under 1.5

29.21% (

-0.02)

70.79% (

0.02)

Score Analysis

Sunderland 48.74%

Norwich City 26.05%

Draw 25.2%

Sunderland	Draw	Norwich City
1-0 @ 11.14% 2-1 @ 9.4% ( 0.01) 2-0 @ 8.74% ( 0.01) 3-1 @ 4.92% ( 0.01) 3-0 @ 4.57% ( 0.01) 3-2 @ 2.65% ( 0) 4-1 @ 1.93% ( 0.01) 4-0 @ 1.79% ( 0.01) 4-2 @ 1.04% ( 0) Other @ 2.56% Total : 48.74%	1-1 @ 11.98% ( -0.01) 0-0 @ 7.1% ( -0.01) 2-2 @ 5.06% ( 0) 3-3 @ 0.95% ( 0) Other @ 0.11% Total : 25.2%	0-1 @ 7.64% ( -0.02) 1-2 @ 6.45% ( -0.01) 0-2 @ 4.11% ( -0.01) 1-3 @ 2.31% ( -0) 2-3 @ 1.81% ( -0) 0-3 @ 1.47% ( -0.01) Other @ 2.25% Total : 26.05%

How you voted: Sunderland vs Norwich

Sunderland

68.4%

Draw

18.4%

Norwich City

13.2%

Head to Head

Mar 2, 2024 3pm

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Norwich

1-0

Sunderland

Sargent (81')
Giannoulis (76'), Sorensen (90')

Hume (44'), Ekwah (59'), Seelt (90+5')

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Oct 28, 2023 3pm

Gameweek 14

Sunderland

3-1

Norwich

Hume (37'), Neill (45'), Clarke (80' pen.)
Ekwah (24'), O'Nien (41'), Pritchard (89'), Semedo (90+5')

Ui-jo (23')
Fassnacht (11'), Giannoulis (61'), McLean (79'), Idah (90+5')

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Mar 12, 2023 12pm

Gameweek 36

Norwich

0-1

Sunderland

Ba (15')

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Aug 27, 2022 12.30pm

Gameweek 6

Sunderland

0-1

Norwich

Cirkin (25'), O'Nien (35')

Sargent (76')
Sargent (90+1'), Krul (90+2')

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Apr 10, 2018 7.45pm

Sunderland

1-1

Norwich

Honeyman (62')

Pinto (89')

Form Guide

Swansea 2-3 Sunderland

Sunderland 1-1 Bristol City

Sunderland 2-1 Stoke

Sheff Utd 1-0 Sunderland

Sunderland 0-0 West Brom

Millwall 1-1 Sunderland

Norwich 1-2 Burnley

Portsmouth 0-0 Norwich

QPR 3-0 Norwich

Norwich 4-2 Luton

Norwich 6-1 Plymouth

West Brom 2-2 Norwich

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COSAFA Cup

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Leeds United Leeds	46	29	13	4	95	30	65	100
P	Burnley	46	28	16	2	69	16	53	100
3	Sheffield United Sheff Utd	46	28	8	10	63	36	27	90
P	Sunderland	46	21	13	12	58	44	14	76
5	Coventry City Coventry	46	20	9	17	64	58	6	69
6	Bristol City	46	17	17	12	59	55	4	68
7	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	46	19	9	18	53	48	5	66
8	Millwall	46	18	12	16	47	49	-2	66
9	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	46	15	19	12	57	47	10	64
10	Middlesbrough	46	18	10	18	64	56	8	64
11	Swansea City Swansea	46	17	10	19	51	56	-5	61
12	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	46	15	13	18	60	69	-9	58
13	Norwich City Norwich	46	14	15	17	71	68	3	57
14	Watford	46	16	9	21	53	61	-8	57
15	Queens Park Rangers QPR	46	14	14	18	53	63	-10	56
16	Portsmouth	46	14	12	20	58	71	-13	54
17	Oxford United Oxford Utd	46	13	14	19	49	65	-16	53
18	Stoke City Stoke	46	12	15	19	45	62	-17	51
19	Derby County Derby	46	13	11	22	48	56	-8	50
20	Preston North End Preston	46	10	20	16	48	59	-11	50
21	Hull City	46	12	13	21	44	54	-10	49
R	Luton Town Luton	46	13	10	23	45	69	-24	49
R	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	46	11	13	22	51	88	-37	46
R	Cardiff City Cardiff	46	9	17	20	48	73	-25	44
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