Martin Wanless predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 1 Sunderland 1
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Enzo Le Fée
After last week’s disaster show, we’ll go back to basics today, with a solid defensive display and looking to capitalise on any opportunity to counter attack.
Wolves are a strange side as they’ve rarely looked as bad as their league position suggests, so to underestimate them would lead to trouble.
I’m going 1-1, with a Le Fée penalty levelling the game.
‘The Champion’ Malc Dugdale predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 1 Sunderland 3
Sunderland’s first goalscorer:
Brian Brobbey
Wolves have had a weird season but after a right shocker last weekend, we absolutely need to correct it and at least get something today.
As we’re expecting and probably also hoping to have some wide men available, we may see a different approach for this game, for more than the obvious Forest-related reasons.
Whatever happens, the minimum I expect is a reaction, a solid shift and a good performance, even if it’s in a losing cause — which I very much hope isn’t the case.
Brobbey to open the scoring for us and a solid 0-3 win with a potentially late consolation for the home fans. A clean sheet would be great if we can get one.
Jack Howe-Gingell predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 0 Sunderland 2
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brian Brobbey
Last Friday was a horror show, so we just need to quickly put it behind us and get back to more solid ground.
It’s not often a team scores five goals from six shots on target so I don’t expect lightning to strike twice, especially from already-relegated Wolves.
They have nothing more to lose now, and some have labelled this one a ‘dead rubber’, but we should be looking to finish as highly as possible. You’d also expect us to take charge against a team as poor as Wolves have been this season, and for the Lads to right a few wrongs from last time.
I think we’ll have got our heads straight and will be well up for this one. A top ten finish during our first season back in the Premier League would be a great achievement, and winning games will get us there.
Will Jones predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 1 Sunderland 2
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brian Brobbey
Wolves are down and with nothing to play for except to be a nuisance, so I don’t expect them to be completely dead behind the eyes on Saturday.
That said, we should have enough. We still looked a bit ill on Friday; half a second off the pace with heavy legs. If we’re not sharp, they’ll make us pay.
Europe is still on — we need to get the points and make it as close as possible.
I think Brobbey gets us in front, they equalise to make us squirm as per usual, then we nick a late winner and limp gratefully to the final whistle.
Matty Foster predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 0 Sunderland 1
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Brian Brobbey
Wolves represents a glorious chance to redeem ourselves, and prove that we do still have fight in us to finish as highly as possible. The Forest game was shockingly bad, but it felt like more of an anomaly than huge cause for concern.
With relegation confirmed, Wolves have nothing to play for, save for their pride. Nevertheless, before losing three on the bounce without scoring, they earned decent results against sides in the top half.
We need a response and we need to shore up the leaky defence. 0-1 will suit me down to the ground, and will keep us in the hunt for a top ten finish.
Anthony Gair predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 1 Sunderland 3
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Enzo Le Fée
Parasols out and suitcases packed, everyone! This is the game where the team will prove they’re not actually on the beach.
I think Wolves have a team capable of getting something against us, but I think the Lads will have too much for them.
I’d imagine the intensity will be ramped up a bit and if it is, we walk away with three points.
Gary Winter predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 1 Sunderland 1
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Enzo Le Fée
Finally we can put last Friday night to bed and move on with another game — as long as we don’t repeat any of it.
The Lads teased us with the potential of Europe, only to head off on their own holidays early, and I don’t even know what to expect from us. I assumed we’d tighten up after Aston Villa but it was far worse against Forest.
And even though Wolves are already relegated, they don’t always seem as terrible as their seventeen points suggest. They had a couple of good results at home this year, beating Liverpool and taking a point off Arsenal, but they’re coming off the back of three bad defeats against teams in the relegation battle.
I’d love us to come out all guns blazing and take it out on Wolves, but that’s just not really our style. I’m unsure as to how motivated we are for the final games but becoming compact and finding some level of intensity would be enough to take at least a point after back-to-back defeats.
Brett Lyons-Davis predicts…
Score prediction: Wolves 0 Sunderland 2
Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Enzo Le Fée
Last Friday was a bit shit, and I think there’ll be a touch of the wounded animal about us.
The Lads will be going all-out to make amends and I fancy seeing off a Wolves team that couldn’t even get a point against Spurs.
Le Fée to open the scoring and an important clean sheet to get a late European push back on track.
Last time out…
Last Friday’s game against Forest is best forgotten about.
We were four down inside half an hour to end it without it being a massacre was the only saving grace. Everyone was crap, including the referee and the lads in the VAR bus, who ruled our a perfectly good goal that might’ve turned the tide had it been allowed.
Today, we face another team at the bottom end and the concern flips between “Will they play well without any relevance to the result?” and “Can we rebound from two losses and nine goals conceded in the last two games?”.
Hopefully we prevail and keep our season alive, despite theirs being over.
Last game predictions…
We all got very carried away after Aston Villa…and got it very wrong.
Not a point in sight, a bit like how we played Forest.
Predictions table and standings
No change in the overall table, as no points were scored and there was no yellow card malarkey, either.
How the points are awarded
Just a quick reminder of how we allocate points to our match-by-match predictions:
- Correct score = Three points
- Correct outcome (but not correct score) = One point
- Correct first Sunderland goalscorer = One point (no goalscorer is a valid call)
- Possible deductions for being lazy and not submitting on time = a two-point deduction.
