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Sunderland pack their bags to visit Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Wednesday evening, hoping to improve upon an average previous return from this fixture. Of the 16 games played, Black Cats have recorded 3 wins, and Crystal Palace have come away with 8 victories.
The previous match played between the two at Selhurst Park was more than three years back, in January 2001, as the visitors ran out cosy 2 - 4 winners in an F.A. Cup match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2003/2004 | Sat 13 Sep | Sunderland | 2 - 1 | Crystal Palace | LD1 |
| 2000/2001 | Wed 17 Jan | Crystal Palace | 2 - 4 | Sunderland | FAC |
| 2000/2001 | Sat 06 Jan | Sunderland | 0 - 0 | Crystal Palace | FAC |
| 2000/2001 | Tue 19 Dec | Crystal Palace | 2 - 1 | Sunderland | LC |
| 1998/1999 | Mon 05 Apr | Crystal Palace | 1 - 1 | Sunderland | LD1 |
| 1998/1999 | Tue 15 Dec | Sunderland | 2 - 0 | Crystal Palace | LD1 |
| 1995/1996 | Sun 03 Dec | Sunderland | 1 - 0 | Crystal Palace | LD1 |
Recent respective form guides
Crystal Palace are in decent form at home, having won four and drawn two of their last six games, A total of 12 goals have been scored by the Eagles in those games, with 6 conceded.
Sunderland's away form is equally impressive, picking up four victories from the last six. The Black Cats's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 9 goals for and 7 against.
Crystal Palace's 64 points from 42 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 9th position. Sunderland are just outside the promotion places, in 3rd, having taken 71 points from 41 games.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Crystal Palace | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| Sunderland | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 9 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
An interesting game for the Black Cats to play at the moment, and one from which I believe will see Sunderland take away one point. Score draw
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Crystal Palace | Unbeaten in the last 8 home games. Unbeaten run of 4 matches. |
| Sunderland | 7 games since last away draw. An overall losing run of 2 games. No win in the 2 most recent games. |