Sunderland v Burnley Predictions & Betting Odds – 18th March 2017

Big chance for Black Cats against the Clarets

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Sunderland v Burnley Betting Preview – Premier League 18th March 3.00pm

Big game for Sunderland here as they start the weekend six points away from safety. There is a big hill for them to climb but a home game against the league’s worst away side has to be fully on their radar. This is the kind of game in which they should be throwing the kitchen sink at for three points and they need to snap their three match winnless streak to do it. But the Black Cats are running with the head to head form over the Clarets to suggest that they can get close to pulling this off.

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Sunderland v Burnley Betting Tips

Is there a way out of the relegation mess that they are in for Sunderland? They have lost their last three Premier League games now without scoring a single goal and since Boxing Day last year they have claimed just the one win. Sunderland have failed to score now in five of their last six league games home and away in the top flight. So there are big, big issues there but this is the kind of game which they have to target a win in if they have any hopes of staying up. Sunderland have gone W3 D3 L8 at home this season and when they faced Burnley at Turf Moor in December, they suffered a 4-1 thrashing. This will actually be the fourth time this season that they have faced Burnley and the Black Cats have gone winless in those other three in a D1 L2 record against the Clarets. However, they are on a long unbeaten stretch of form at home against them, having posted a W5 D4 L0 record in their last nine home games against the Clarets in all competitions. Jermain Defoe has scored on his last two appearances against Burnley and he is a 11/10 Bet365 anytime goalscorer favorite. A Sunderland 1-0 win in this one will return you a price of 15/2 and Sunderland haven’t conceded in their last two home games against the Clarets.

Burnley have some problems away from home, it’s fair to say. They have collected just the two points away from home and they have just five games out on the road left for the term (including this one). A recent defeat at Swansea shows how vulnerable they are and defensively they have conceded at least two goals in six of their last seven games out on the road. Both teams to score at Bet365 is a price of 4/5 and that could be value as the Clarets have netted in each of their last six away games. Burnley have only ever won one Premier League game in the month of March (P10 W1 D1 L8) and have a worse points per game ratio in this month than any other side in the history of the competition (0.40). The last time that they won a game at Sunderland was in the 1978/79 season. Andre Gray fired off a hat trick against Sunderland earlier in the season and he is trading at a price of 13/8 in the Bet365 anytime goalscorer market for this meeting.  Over 2.5 goals on the game is trading at 11/10 with Bet365.

Sunderland v Burnley Betting Odds

Sunderland 13/8, Draw 21/10, Burnley 15/8

Sunderland v Burnley Predictions

Sunderland to win: The Black Cats surely can’t miss this opportunity to collect three points. They aren’t going to get many easier games so look for them to edge their way their way to a win by a one goal margin.