Sunderland - West Bromwich Albion predictions

Though Sunderland are the favourites between these two teams, this is a fairly balanced matchup. All three possible outcomes of a Result bet are quite possible, which at least means we may get to see an exciting game.

The visiting team knows that beating Sunderland on their own turf will be a major accomplishment, and it is always a formidable challenge.

Despite the 1:1 draw at the end, Sunderland fans have a lot of reason to be happy with their previous outing. They were leading at half time against a Millwall , a considerably stronger opponent with home-field advantage.

West Bromwich Albion haven’t exactly been playing top of their game lately. Last round’s home draw 2:2 against Norwich City was far from a disaster, but most of us – including the world’s best online bookmakers – expected a lot more considering they played at home.

The previous 3 times we saw Sunderland play at home were marked by more than 5 goals from them. The visitors will need to be careful if they want to avoid conceding a lot of goals.

WBA have been performing rather indifferently at Stadium of Light lately with a string of 4 stalemates on home turf.

The visitors have to contend with several injuries. Kyle Bartley, D. Dike, Gianluca Frabotta are the players that will be missing, which makes the The Baggies lineup somewhat weaker than usual. This is made far worse because they were considered undergods going in either way.

An Under 2.5 Goals bet is an easy tip to offer – it’s a fairly probable outcome with betting odds priced at a comfortable 1. More importantly, though, the betting value it offers is surprisingly solid.