After two wins in two days in two separate cup competitions, it’s back to league business and Sunderland will go top of the pile by beating Wycombe on Saturday.
It’s now eight wins on the bounce in all competitions, and with six of those victories coming on the road it’ll feel like something of a homecoming as we play in the league at the Stadium of Light for only the second time in nearly seven weeks.
Our cup exploits mean that we’ve played twice since our opponents last took to the field, but Jack Ross was able to shuffle the pack at Morecambe on Tuesday so we should be fit and fresh on Saturday.
A quick look at Wycombe reveals that although they're down in 15th, they're on something of an upward curve with three wins in their last four – indeed they did us a favour last time by beating Peterborough and allowing us to leapfrog Posh into second.
Two of their last four have finished 3-2, with the tempting price of 25/1 available on us to win by that score line with our official betting partners at Coral.
A home win pays 8/13, but with our defence pretty solid of late – we’ve conceded just three times in that eight-match winning run – there might be more value in a win to nil at 17/10.
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Players and managers always say that momentum and confidence are key in football.
Well, we have plenty of both at the moment, and with Portsmouth not playing this week, a ninth consecutive win would take us top of League One and kick that momentum into overdrive.
Over to you lads!
