Bottom of the table clash as Crystal Palace face Sunderland

Sunderland manager Gus Poyet comes in to the match against Crystal Palace under pressure to get a result following some very poor performances and dreadful individual errors in recent games. A good win against Stoke City was swiftly followed up by an embarrassing 8-0 defeat at the hands of Southampton and a 2-0 home defeat at home to Arsenal. The one thing linking these two losses was the amount of individual player errors within them, including mistakes not only from the goalkeeper, Vito Mannone but also from experienced defenders such as Wes Brown. It can be difficult for a top team to come back from such a performance but the 3/1 offered by Coral for Sunderland to win this game shows that Sunderland are far away from classed as a leading Premiership club and currently find themselves in the relegation zone.

However, the home team, Crystal Palace find themselves just a point above Sunderland in the Premier League table and will have this match marked down as a must win if they want to stay clear of the relegation battle. A disappointing October witnessed Neil Warnock`s team pick up just one point and that came with a 2-2 draw against West Bromwich Albion despite being 2-0 up in the game. Although not in good form themselves, Crystal Palace have the home advantage and Sunderland`s confidence is so low right now that they are favourites for this game at 23/20 with bet365.

If they are to win the match, Crystal Palace will be looking towards Frazier Campbell to lead the line and get the goals, having already scored 3 Premier League goals this season, which makes the striker Palace`s joint top league goal scorer. Campbell is priced at 6/1 with BetVictor to get the first goal of the game. A somewhat surprising name joining Campbell at the top of Palace`s league goal scorers list is central midfielder Mile Jedinak and the Australian is 9/2 with ladbrokes to score at any time during the game.

Sunderland`s top Premier League goal scorer is striker Steven Fletcher having found the back of the net twice so far this season. With Sunderland likely to play with one striker, Fletcher will be the lone forward threat for Black Cat`s and is available at 12/5 with bet365 to be an any time goal scorer.

By keeping a clean sheet at home against Burnley and Leicester, Crystal Palace have shown that they can keep out the teams in the bottom half of the table when playing at home and Sunderland have a very poor scoring record when playing away from home, having failed to hit the back of the net on their travels since the first day of the season. Nine of Crystal Palace`s 13 goals scored in the league this season have come away from home and this indicates that under 2.5 goals is likely at 31/40 with BetVictor.

Sunderland have failed to win 9 of their last 10 matches in the Premier League and Crystal Palace have won their last 4 home matches against them, which points towards a home win. Crystal Palace can be backed at 5/2 with SkyBet to win the match to nil and at 13/2 with bet365 to win the match by the scoreline 1-0.

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