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Sheffield Utd vs Sunderland Prediction & Betting tips
Two tradition clubs from England cross the line in the third round of the Carabao Cup: Sheffield United receives a visit from Sunderland on Bramall Lane on Wednesday evening. Will the Premier League team succeed in winning against Sunderland? Or can The Black Cats stunt in the steel city?
Sheffield United:
Every season, three teams from the Championship are promoted to the Premier League. This season, Sheffield United, Aston Villa and Norwich City are active in the Premier League as PhD candidates and of those three PhDs, Sheffield United is the best performer. The Blades are neatly in tenth place in England and no one had seen that coming, because this Sheffield United really has no great selection. Chris Wilder, however, has made Sheffield United one team and then you can also go far in the Premier League.
Sheffield United already took eight points and The Blades is even above a superpower like Chelsea based on the goal difference. Normally Sheffield United will go down some places in the rankings in the coming months, but the results of the first six games are promising. Sheffield United, for example, completely unexpectedly won 0-2 last weekend against Everton, which actually has a better player in every position. In the game before that, The Blades also grabbed a point when visiting Chelsea (2-2) and this Sheffield United should certainly not be underestimated.
Sunderland:
Sunderland is of course a wonderful club and many Dutch football fans will have more ties with The Red Cats than with a club like Sheffield United. Reality is also that Sunderland, often due to bad policies, has had years of blackness and is still not the Sunderland of ten years ago. Today Jack Ross is at the helm in the Stadium of Light, but the most famous name at Sunderland is of course Will Grigg. That only directly indicates that there are no more Jermain Defoe’s and so on at Sunderland today. The better players would rather play football in the Championship than in the League One.
Because the League One is still the competition in which Sunderland is active and The Black Cats hope to be able to promote to the second level of England this season. However, Sunderland will have to take a different lead in the coming months, as Ross is in fifth place with Sunderland in the League One with only sixteen points. The gap with league-leader Ipswich Town has risen to five points after nine games and only the champion and number two (currently Coventry City with nineteen points) of the League One are promoted directly to the Championship. Last weekend Sunderland got no further than a 1-1 draw at Bolton Wanderers, which this season (partly due to a penalty) is really the ugly duckling in the League One.
Sheffield Utd vs Sunderland head to head matches
26.12.17 CHA Sheffield Utd Sunderland 3 : 0
09.09.17 CHA Sunderland Sheffield Utd 1 : 2
22.01.05 CHA Sunderland Sheffield Utd 1 : 0
28.09.04 CHA Sheffield Utd Sunderland 1 : 0
09.04.04 CHA Sunderland Sheffield Utd 3 : 0