New Sunderland boss Martin O’Neill will take charge of his first full game for Sunderland this weekend, in a big clash against Blackburn Rovers at the Stadium of Light. With Steve Bruce getting the sack after a fairly mediocre season from the Black Cats, it promoted the return to football management for former Villa boss Martin O’Neill. Sunderland edge Blackburn by just one point in the Premier League, so this is going to be a massive match on Sunday. Sunderland haven’t managed to pick up a win in the last five league matches now, and have managed just two all season. Their last two matches have been huge losses for them, with 2-1 defeats against Wigan and Wolves, both fellow strugglers in the league, which has dropped Sunderland into big trouble. As for Blackburn, who are still sticking with the under fire Steve Kean despite on going protests from fans, they broke an eight game winless streak in the league with a 4-2 home win over Swansea last weekend. That too was only their second victory of the season and there look to be a long road ahead for both of these, but there are differences between the two. Blackburn’s defence has been horrendous this season, having conceded 32 goals all season, including at least one goal in all of their away matches this season. It has been four draws and three defeats on the road for Blackburn this season, but they have been better in front of goal than Sunderland by five goals. However, Sunderland look imminently more fixable, because they have a decent defence but just don’t score enough goals. Black Cats fans have only had one home league win to celebrate this season which came back in September. Since then it has been three draws and one defeat. So it is interesting to see which way this game will go and Paddy Power have launched a Money Back Special for your Sunderland v Blackburn betting.
If there are four or more goals in the match, then Paddy Power will refund all losing First Goalscorer, Last Goalscorer, Correct Score and Scorecast singles placed on the match. Five of Blackburn’s seven away league matches this season have ended with four or more goals being scored, so this could be some pretty good coverage. Over in the First Goalscorer Market, Blackburn’s Yakubu who is on nine league goals this season, is at 13/2, while it is Sunderland’s Nicklas Bendtner who is trading as favourite at 11/2 in this market. In the Correct Score betting, a 1-0 or 2-1 win for Sunderland fetches 13/2, so there is good value around, especially with the cover from the Paddy Power Sunderland v Blackburn Money Back Special.
Sunderland v Blackburn Betting Odds at Paddy Power
Sunderland 10/11, Draw 5/2, Blackburn 3/1
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