The Stadium of Light hosts the second live match on New Year's Day with Sunderland v Man City. Roberto Mancini's side sit atop of the Premier League with a game in hand and the players should be suitably motivated following Man United's surprise defeat at home to Blackburn on Saturday. Unsurprisingly, Man City are the bookmakers' favourites to win the match as Bet365 go odds of 8/15 about an away win, with Sunderland 11/2 and the draw 3/1.
Sunderland have just the one defeat since the arrival of Martin O'Neill as replacement of Steve Bruce in early December. That one defeat was away at Tottenham where they lost 1-0 and although they are yet to win against any team in the top seven of the Premier League this season, they have only lost out by a single goal to Manchester United, Chelsea Spurs and Arsenal, whilst the team earned a good away draw at Liverpool on the opening day of the season. Martin O'Neill will certainly set his team up as hard to beat and following a good win away at Qeens Park Rangers they were unlucky to only record a home draw with Everton on Boxing Day, following a bizarre award of a penalty to the visitors by Howard Webb.
Manchester City have been very strong this season but if they have had any kind of run that can be described as being a rough patch, it's now having drawn 0-0 away at West Brom on Boxing Day. That game was City's first match without scoring but they are odds on to score at the Stadium of light on New Year's Day. Despite the blank at the Hawthornes, City have averaged 2.78 goals on the road in the league this season and are likely to rotate the squad and give Edin Dzeko a rare start. You have to go all the way back to the 5th November for Dzeko's last goal in the league with Aguero and Balotelli above the Bosnian in the pecking order. At 9/2 to score first Dzeko looks a good bet with Bet 365.
Sunderland have kept just the two clean sheets at home this season and it's difficult to see City failing to hit the net twice in a row. Roberto Mancini has such an array of attacking talent at his disposal it is hard to see two consecutive games where his front six fail to find the net and having scored 53 goals in their 18 games to date, they could be the first team from the top 7 to win by more than two goals against Sunderland, with a correct score of 3-1 to the visitors an attractive looking 11/1 with Bet365.
Sunderland v Man City Form
Check the season's statistics for both Sunderland v Man City plus the odds ahead of Sunday's match.
Sunderland Stats |Man City Stats
Sunderland v Man City Tips
Tip #1: Edin Dzeko to score first @ odds of 9/2 with Bet365.
Tip #2: City to win 3-1 correct score @ odds of 11/1 with Bet365.
Match Betting
11/2 Sunderland
3/1 Draw
8/15 Man City
Correct Score Odds
16/1 Sunderland 1-0
28/1 Sunderland 2-0
16/1 Sunderland 2-1
12/1 Draw 0-0
13/2 Draw 1-1
14/1 Draw 2-2
13/2 Man City 1-0
13/2 Man City 2-0
7/1 Man City 2-1
First Goalscorer Odds
4/1 Sergio Aguero
9/2 Mario Balotelli
9/2 Edin Dzeko
13/2 David Silva
15/2 Samir Nasri
17/2 Niklas Bendtner
8/1 Adam Johnson
12/2 Yaya Toure
12/2 Connor Wickham
12/1 Stephane Sessegnon
14/1 James Milner
Odds supplied by Bet365.com, plus over 100 other markets on this match and all Premier League fixtures, including live betting in-running.
Posted: Saturday, 31st December 2011
Author: Russell Lloyd
Tags: english premiership, man city, sunderland, edin dzeko, bet365,
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