Sunderland Face Southampton In 8-0 Repeat

Sunderland`s clash with Southampton tomorrow will have a great bearing on both sides with the hosts looking to escape the relegation zone and the Saints aiming to apply pressure on fifth placed Liverpool. Sunderland are currently just one point from safety in the last relegation spot and could supersede both Leicester and Aston Villa with a home victory, moving out of the dreaded drop zone in the process.

Losing at the Stadium Of Light could see the gap between themselves and the Foxes extended to four points and their hopes of Premier League survival further diminish. Should QPR also record a two goal or more victory over Liverpool tomorrow, Sunderland would fall into 19th.

Like their hosts, Southampton are also just one point from their target position. Ronald Koeman`s men are looking to move into the Europa League space currently occupied by Liverpool and would do so with a victory tomorrow. That`s if the Reds fail to beat QPR with sixth placed Spurs playing Manchester City on Sunday. Whilst losing to the North East strugglers would all but end the Saints` hopes of European football, their superior points tally means that they would not fall below Swansea in eighth.

Southampton hosted Sunderland in the sides` reverse Premier League fixture back in October, the now legendary match-up seeing the St Mary`s outfit run out the 8-0 victors. This October game was fought out with the Black Cats under former manager Gus Poyet, the club now with Dick Advocaat at the helm.

Three of these eight goals were hit in the first 45, the deadlock being broken with a Santiago Vergini own goal in the 12th minute. Graziano Pelle doubled his side`s lead a mere six minutes later before Jack Cork grabbed the last goal of the first half eight minutes from the break.

Liam Bridcutt was responsible for the second of three own goals that saw the Saints go 4-0 up just under 20 minutes after the restart, Pelle earning his brace just six minutes later. It would be 10 minutes until the next Southampton goal, Dusan Tadic adding the sixth a minute before Victor Wanyama`s seventh. Patrick van Aanholt turned the ball into the back of his own net four minutes from time to seal his side`s embarrassment.

Fancy Southampton to win by eight goals without conceding once again? paddy Power have the best price of 500/1 on this outcome. Otherwise, boylesports` 25/1 says that the first goal of the match will come from an own goal with Pelle a 14/1 chance with bet365 to score two or more goals. Wanyama is available at 21/2 (32red, 888sport, unibet) to hit the back of the net at any time.

A consequence of Koeman`s club`s far superior league position and emphatic previous victory over Sunderland is that they are the 21/20 favourites with almost all bookies to do the double over the Mackems. Alternatively, Betvictor have the best price of 10/3 on a home victory whilst a draw is up for grabs at 12/5 (bet365, betfred, sportingbet).

Sunderland failed to win either of their last two games following their 1-0 triumph over archrivals Newcastle a fortnight ago. The club have not scored two goals in a match since the end of January and, consequentially, are a massive 10/3 with Coral to score over 1.5 times tomorrow afternoon.

Southampton also failed to win either of their last two and have not won any of their last four away from home. They were not able to hit the back of the net in two of these four matches and a Sunderland clean sheet is up for grabs at 3/1 (Spreadex).

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