Match Preview Sunderland v Hull
By Eye Of The Tiger
September 11 2009
Hull travel to The Stadium of Light this weekend to take on Sunderland. Sunderland have won 2 and lost 2 of their opening games and Hull have won one lost 2 and drawn one. Hull are currently 14 with Sunderland in 9th. Last season Sunderland won the fixture 1-0 thanks to a Cisse goal .
Team News
Hull could hand new striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink a debut, Ibrahima Sonko
and Paul Mcshane could also start aftering signing up before the transfer window closed. Ashbee (knee), Bullard (knee), Garcia (knee), Gardner (knee), Marney (knee) are all still out.
Sunderland could hand young keeper Trevor Carson a senior debut as Craig Gordon (thigh) and Marton Fulop (heel) are both doubtful. Lee Cattermole is also doubtful. George McCartney is set to miss out and Michael Turner could make his debut after joining Sunderland from Hull 2 days before the transfer window.
Match Facts
Head-to-head
• Sunderland have won their last four games against Hull, keeping three clean sheets.
• Hull's last win against Sunderland was 1-0 at Roker Park in a Division Two match on 14 April 1990. That is their only victory in their last 11 league visits to Wearside.
Sunderland
• The Black Cats have kept only three clean sheets in their last 16 league games.
• Sunderland striker Kenwyne Jones has scored eight league goals in 2009 - more than any other player from outside the Big Four. Strike partner Darren Bent is not far behind with seven.
• The Black Cats have lost five of their last seven league games at the Stadium of Light.
Hull
• Hull have won just one of their last 16 Premier League away games, a 1-0 victory at Fulham on 4 March.
• Stephen Hunt is set to make his 300th English league appearance.
• Hull have the worst disciplinary record in the top flight with 74 fouls and 10 yellow cards so far.
Manager Views
Phil Brown [on Turner and campbell playing against Hull] "It'll add spice to the occasion and fingers crossed we will have Paul [McShane] as part of our new centre-back pairing.
"With Kenwyne Jones having had a long flight, will Steve put him in or will he throw Fraizer into the melting pot? The bottom line is that it will be a strike force to be reckoned with.
"Having watched Sunderland's four games so far, they will be dangerous from set pieces and we will have to be aware of Michael's height as he enters the box.
"Going to Sunderland at any stage of the season, you know their fans are going to be boisterous and voiciferous in getting right behind their team, so we've got a job to do.
"I spoke to Sam Allardyce after the Blackburn game
and he said Sunderland were slightly lucky, but Steve has that knack of
knowing how to win games. It's up to us to make sure he doesn't do
that tomorrow."
Sunderland Manager Steve Bruce
“The Hull game is one we want to win, one we need to win and one I expect us to win.
“We will be going all out for the three points at the Stadium of Light tomorrow, you can be sure of that, because we have very firm ideas of what we want to achieve this season. We have made a solid start to the campaign so far.
“The defeat at Stoke in our last game was the real disappointment for me because we just did not compete with them – but other than that I have been reasonably happy.
“We have six points from four games and I have always believed if you can start the season with your points total at least matching the number of games played, then you are not doing that badly.
“Beat Hull, though, and it is nine points from five games, which would represent an excellent start.
Sunderland: Carson, Bardsley, Turner, Nosworthy, Mensah, Cana, Cattermole, Richardson, Malbranque, Bent, Jones. Hull: Myhill, Dawson, Sonka, Zayatte, Mouyokolo, Kilbane, Hunt, Olofinjana, Geovanni, Vennegoor of Hesselink, Ghilas.
Possible Line-ups
Eye of the Tigers Prediction Sunderland 1-1 Hull
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now i obviously changed part of it but forgot aqbout the rest anyway changed it like an hour later when i realised but it doesn't changed the tittle on the message board if you go on the frpnt page though you will see that it changed from Wolves to Hull
risn' up to the challenge of our rival
