Sunderland face a trip to Derby County at Pride Park on Saturday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Black Cats will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them lose 34 and win only 13 of the 60 games.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was just last season, in February 2002, with Sunderland inflicting a narrow 0 - 1 defeat upon the Rams in a Premiership match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2001/2002 | Sat 11 May | Sunderland | 1 - 1 | Derby | PREM |
| 2001/2002 | Sat 09 Feb | Derby | 0 - 1 | Sunderland | PREM |
| 2000/2001 | Sat 03 Feb | Derby | 1 - 0 | Sunderland | PREM |
| 2000/2001 | Sat 16 Sep | Sunderland | 2 - 1 | Derby | PREM |
| 1999/2000 | Sat 26 Feb | Sunderland | 1 - 1 | Derby | PREM |
| 1999/2000 | Sat 18 Sep | Derby | 0 - 5 | Sunderland | PREM |
| 1996/1997 | Thu 26 Dec | Sunderland | 2 - 0 | Derby | PREM |
Recent respective form guides
Derby County's woeful home form means they have chalked up just a single victory, with 5 defeats, from the last six. While Rams have scored 5, a worringly large 13 have been leaked at the other end.
Sunderland's away form is none too clever either, winning and losing 3 each of the last six games. The Black Cats's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 8 goals for and 7 against.
Derby find themselves struggling down in 18th position in the league having picked up 7 points from their 7 matches. Sunderland lie just outside the playoff positions in the Nationwide League Division One, picking up 12 from their 7 games so far.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Derby | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 1 |
| Sunderland | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 12 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Sunderland are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Derby | Been beaten in each of their previous 4 home matches. Failed to win in previous 4 home matches. Latest 3 games ended in defeat. Not won in the 9 most recent games. |
| Sunderland | 3 successive away victories. 11 games since last away draw. Won each of the previous 3 matches. Last drawn game 20 outings ago. |
