Sunderland v Derby Betting Preview – Championship 4th August 7.45pm
The Black Cats make their start in the Championship and will quickly be looking to put that miserable Premier League season last term behind them. Simon Grayson is at the helm to try and get the Mackems back up to the top flight and they open their campaign on Friday night against Derby. The Rams could have been in better play off contention last season and they will be hoping that after a couple of big summer signings, they will be in the mix this time around.
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Sunderland v Derby Betting Tips
Sunderland were dismayed at their relegation, but at no point in the season did they look as if they had the quality to stay in the top flight. Now the hard work begins to get back up them. Jermain Defoe, who was their only source of goals last term has moved on to Bournemouth and the Mackems have purchased Aiden McGeady from Everton, Jaymes Vaughan and Jason Steele from Blackburn. They have brought in Lewis Grabban on loan from Bournemouth to help out their cause as. But there hasn’t been a great deal of movement in the transfer market. Will they struggle for goals this season? A Sunderland to win by a one goal margin only at bet365 is a 6/5 punt in this one. They do have some head to head form against Derby.
Their most recent meetings were in the 2007/08 Premier League and Sunderland collected four points from those two meetings. The Black Cats are currently on a ten match unbeaten streak of form against the Rams so that makes them fully backable at the Stadium of Light in this season opener of theirs. Sunderland are W6 D4 in that sequence of games. Not only that, they have five clean sheets in their last ten against the Rams and have four of them in their last six against them. A Sunderland to win to nil wager at bet365 looks value at 13/5 or you can go shopping around in the correct score market where a Sunderland 1-0 correct score punt at bet365 is a solid 6/1 value. Sunderland won their last home games against the Rams with a 1-0 victory.
The Rams finished ninth in last season’s Championship. They were solid enough at home, but they just couldn’t back it up out on the road. Away from home, last season Derby took a W7 D5 L11 record on the road, and that meant that they missed out on getting themselves into the play off picture. Both teams to score in this one, backing the Rams to get something on the board at least to make this interesting is a price of 4/5. That having been said they failed to score in either of their last two games against the Black Cats. They have been spending in the summer, bringing Andre Wisdom and Tom Huddlestone to the club for a combined total of around £6.5 million. They will want better this season but this isn’t an easy opener for them.
Sunderland v Derby Betting Odds
Sunderland 23/20, Draw 12/5, Derby 23/10
Sunderland v Derby Predictions
Sunderland to win: The Black Cats have the head to head form going against the Rams and because they will want to come out firing, especially on home soil, they can be backed to land the win. It will probably only be a narrow one, but the three points can be collected by the home side in this Friday night encounter.
