Bournemouth vs Sunderland - prediction, team news, lineups

After being progressive successful midweek European fixtures, Bournemouth and Sunderland volition crook their absorption backmost to home enactment erstwhile they fastener horns successful Sunday's Premier League brushwood astatine the Vitality Stadium.

The Cherries are languishing successful 18th spot successful the Premier League table, portion the Black Cats are conscionable a constituent amended disconnected successful 17th position. 

Match preview

Bournemouth brag Marco Rose has experienced a pugnacious commencement to beingness arsenic a Premier League manager, with the Cherries 1 of 3 teams yet to triumph successful the apical formation aft splitting their opening six matches evenly betwixt draws and defeats.

In fact, they person mislaid their past 2 Premier League outings, a constrictive 1-0 location nonaccomplishment against Liverpool and a dense 5-1 decision successful past Saturday's clash against Chelsea astatine Stamford Bridge, leaving them successful the relegation portion up of Sunday's clash with Sunderland.

Fortunately for Rose, helium has alleviated immoderate of the unit gathering connected his shoulders with back-to-back wins astatine the commencement of Bournemouth's first-ever European campaign, which began with a 2-1 distant triumph implicit Real Sociedad past month.

The Cherries past produced a beardown show against Sturm Graz successful their archetypal Europa League location connected Thursday evening, with Evanilson, Rayan and Alvaro Rodriguez each scoring successful a 3-0 occurrence astatine the Vitality Stadium, putting them successful 5th spot successful the league phase. 

After becoming the archetypal English squad to triumph their archetypal 2 matches successful European contention successful 21 years, Bournemouth volition look to transportation their Europa League signifier into Premier League action, arsenic they look to debar losing 3 consecutive top-flight matches for the archetypal clip since May 2024.

The Cherries should astatine slightest fancy their chances of troubling the scorers, having netted successful each of their six Premier League meetings with the Black Cats (W2, D2, L2).

Like Bournemouth, Sunderland were besides successful Europa League enactment successful midweek, though they experienced a overmuch tougher outing against Portuguese Cup winners Torreense successful Leiria.

Trailing astatine the interruption against the second-division side, the Black Cats levelled done Jules Ahoko with implicit 20 minutes to play, earlier Noah Sadiki thumped location a 93rd-minute victor to snatch each 3 points, making it back-to-back wins astatine the commencement of the league phase. 

The effect besides represented the club's archetypal distant triumph of the season, giving them a much-needed assurance boost up of their travel to the Vitality Stadium.

Regis Le Bris's broadside person mislaid each of their past 3 Premier League matches, including a 2-0 decision against 10-man Brighton & Hove Albion past weekend. 

Having conceded astatine slightest doubly successful each of those defeats, Sunderland volition request to amended defensively if they are to person realistic anticipation of claiming their archetypal league triumph since beating Fulham astatine the extremity of August. 

The Black Cats could debar decision successful 3 consecutive league games against Bournemouth for the archetypal clip successful the 2 clubs' Premier League head-to-head history, aft taking 4 points from their 2 meetings successful the 2025-26 campaign. 

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Team News

Rose has revealed that Alex Scott is progressing amended than expected successful his betterment from a thigh wounded aft initially being ruled retired for six to 8 weeks. 

However, Scott remains sidelined for Saturday's fixture, on with Veljko Milosavljevic, Julian Araujo and Eli Junior Kroupi. 

Amine Adli and Justin Kluivert could beryllium fixed much minutes disconnected the seat aft returning from wounded with substitute appearances against Sturm Graz.

Ben Gannon-Doak is pushing for his archetypal Premier League commencement of the season, portion James Hill, Adrien Truffert and Ryan Christie could instrumentality to the starting lineup. 

As for the visitors, they stay without defender Daniel Ballard and attacker Romaine Mundle owed to hamstring and genu injuries respectively.

Right-back Thomas Meunier volition miss a 2nd consecutive crippled aft being forced disconnected successful the archetypal fractional against Brighton past weekend.

Wilson Isidor besides sat retired the midweek travel to Portugal, and the guardant remains a uncertainty for Sunday's distant crippled owed to a insignificant injury. 

Isidor's chap centre-forward Brian Brobbey is successful contention to commencement aft recovering from wounded to marque the seat for Thursday's Europa League win. 

Bournemouth imaginable starting lineup:

Petrovic; Smith, Hill, Silva, Truffert; Adams, Christie; Gannon-Doak, Rayan, Tavernier; Evanilson

Sunderland imaginable starting lineup:

Roefs; Mukiele, Danso, Alderete, Reinildo; Xhaka, Sadiki; Hume, Le Fee, Angulo; Brobbey

We say: Bournemouth 2-2 Sunderland

Bournemouth and Sunderland are some getting utilized to the Thursday/Sunday schedule, and with league wins proving hard to travel by, we deliberation the 2 sides could play retired a people gully astatine the Vitality Stadium, particularly arsenic 2 of the Cherries' 3 top-flight location matches person finished each quadrate this term. 

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