Sunday’s trio of fixtures begins at the Stadium of Light, where Sunderland play host to Cardiff. Yesterday’s results have fallen in the pair’s favour – defeats to Villa and Norwich, allied with Fulham’s home draw against Hull, means that a win for either side this lunchtime would take them out of the bottom three:
The Black Cats are in buoyant mood after taking four points from their trips to City and Chelsea in the last two league outings and, with a double Gameweek 37 just around the corner, the likes of Connor Wickham, Fabio Borini, Adam Johnson and Marcos Alonso have the platform to catch Fantasy managers’ eyes, along with the impressive Vito Mannone in goal.
Cardiff have also delivered a win and a draw in their last couple of fixtures and Steven Caulker’s aerial threat in the box and David Marshall’s heroics between the sticks afford them reason for optimism.
Following this, there’s the small matter of an Anfield encounter between Liverpool and Chelsea before Palace look to extend their five-match winning run at the expense of title-chasing Man City.
You can look to our Twitter feed for all the news from the day’s teamsheets, while the Dugout Discussion chatroom is now open to collect your real-time reactions as the matches unfold.
