Manchester City vs Sunderland Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 6th December 2025

Manchester City enjoy home advantage, when visitors Sunderland swing by this coming Saturday for a clash in the Premier League. The former will be looking to make that home advantage count.

The Sky Blues are chasing the first place in the Premier League after collecting 28 points from their initial 14 encounters. Sunderland trail them on 23 points after 14 rounds, sitting as number 6 in the table.

Manchester City took down Sunderland in their most recent meeting, and bookmakers deem another win for the home side a likely scenario this coming Saturday.

The Sky Blues are confident they will be scoring goals in their next assignment in the Premier League, as they show off very admirable numbers from their past ten matches. The hosts scored 2.4 goals on average per match, or 24 goals in total, while allowing 12 goals against, for an average of 1.2 per outing. They managed three clean sheets along the way.

Sunderland scored 13 goals, conceded 11 and managed two clean sheets in their previous ten matches.

Manchester City had a good reading on Sunderland in their last two meetings, which they won by 2-1 and 2-0, respectively.

Manchester City vs Sunderland Prediction

Manchester City Form

In the previous three matches, Manchester City lost 0-2 against Bayer Leverkusen, beat Leeds by 3-2 and won 4-5 against Fulham. Manchester City swept all opposition aside in the six most recent Premier League matches at their home ground. They won all six, adding 18 points to their account, whilst scoring 19 and conceding four goals.

Spoken of as title contenders, Manchester City are currently doing a good job of living up to the hype in the Premier League this season.

Sunderland Form

In their last three matches, Sunderland lost 1-0 against Fulham, won 3-2 against Bournemouth, and drew 1-1 with Liverpool. Sunderland claimed two wins against two draws and two defeats in their last six away matches in the Premier League. The scoreline from these matches reads five goals conceded and four scored.

Sunderland were spoken of as contenders for a title, but current form has them running a little behind in the Premier League.

Manchester City should be too strong at Etihad Stadium to drop any points against Sunderland, and combining the home win with over 2.5 goals looks the value bet.

Manchester City won three matches, scored ten goals and conceded four in their last six games against teams from the top half of the Premier League table. This earned them ten points. Sunderland claimed one wins and six points in the past four games against teams placed inside the top six. They scored five goals while conceding four times. Manchester City only drew once so far this season after 14 games played, in stead recording nine wins and four defeats in the Premier League. Sunderland enjoy a record of six wins, five draws and three defeats in the Premier League.

Manchester City vs Sunderland Squads

Manchester City Squad

Guardiola will select the starting XI for the upcoming match against Sunderland from the following players (the statistics in the brackets represent goals scored and matches played in the Premier League this season):

Gianluigi Donnarumma (0/11), James Trafford (0/3), Marcus Bettinelli (0/0), Stefan Ortega (0/0), Abdukodir Khusanov (0/4), John Stones (0/7), Josko Gvardiol (1/10), Nathan Ake (0/6), Rayan Ait Nouri (0/4), Rico Lewis (0/5), Ruben Dias (1/14), Bernardo Silva (0/14), Jeremy Doku (1/14), Kalvin Phillips (0/0), Mateo Kovacic (0/1), Matheus Nunes (1/12), Nico Gonzalez (1/13), Nico O'Reilly (1/13), Oscar Bobb (0/9), Phil Foden (5/12), Rayan Cherki (1/9), Rodri (0/6), Savinho (0/10), Tijjani Reijnders (2/13), Erling Haaland (15/14), Omar Marmoush (0/8).

Sunderland Squad

Listed below is the full squad of Sunderland players that the manager Regis Le Bris will choose from for the upcoming game:

Anthony Patterson (0/0), Blondy Nna Noukeu (0/0), Robin Roefs (0/14), Simon Moore (0/0), Ajibola Alese (0/0), Arthur Masuaku (0/3), Daniel Ballard (2/12), Dennis Cirkin (0/0), Joseph Anderson (0/0), Leo Hjelde (0/0), Luke O'Nien (0/1), Lutsharel Geertruida (0/11), Nordi Mukiele (1/12), Omar Alderete (1/10), Reinildo (0/11), Timothee Pembele (0/0), Trai Hume (0/14), Abdoullah Ba (0/0), Chris Rigg (0/6), Daniel Neil (0/0), Enzo Le Fee (2/13), Granit Xhaka (1/14), Habib Diarra (0/4), Jay Matete (0/0), Noah Sadiki (0/14), Ahmed Abdullahi (0/0), Bertrand Traore (1/8), Brian Brobbey (2/9), Chemsdine Talbi (2/14), Eliezer Mayenda (1/8), Ian Poveda (0/0), Romaine Mundle (0/1), Simon Adingra (0/8), Wilson Isidor (4/14).

Manchester City vs Sunderland Team News

Manchester City seem to only have two players missing from the squad ahead of their upcoming assignment on Saturday.

Rodri and Oscar Bobb are missing from the squad, Manchester City will field against Sunderlandthis coming Saturday.

Sunderland have just one player unavailable for selection, when visiting Manchester City at Etihad Stadium.

Daniel Ballard won't be travelling with Sunderland this time, as he nurses an injury.

Manchester City vs Sunderland Lineups

Manchester City vs Sunderland H2H

The Sky Blues go into their encounter with fond memories, as they won 2-1 and 2-0 the last two times they played Sunderland. Manchester City enjoy a good 7-1-2 advantage against Sunderland, and the bookies best betting odds on a home win are at 2/9.

Manchester City vs Sunderland Results

Of the last ten encounters between Manchester City Sunderland over 2.5 goals came out four times. Odds on over 2.5 goals are at 1/2 with bookies.

Manchester City vs Sunderland Betting Tips

Brian Brobbey shows decent form right now for Sunderland, as he scored two goals in his last six games in the Premier League. The visitors need more from him, though, when facing Manchester City, who are strong favourites this coming Saturday. Siding with Erling Haaland also look a nice prospect as he scored four goals in his last six Premier League matches.

Of their last 10 matches at home across all tournaments Manchester City won eight times and lost two as well. Sunderland won three times, drew two and lost five of their last 10 games away from home. Both teams scored in five of the last 10 Premier League matches for Manchester City at Etihad Stadium. Both teams also found their way to the target in three of the previous 10 away games for Sunderland.

Over 2.5 goals came out six times in the last ten encounters between these two teams. Manchester City managed an average of 2.1 goals, with Sunderland averaging 0.9 goals in these. Both teams to score was a winning bet five times in this run of matches. Over 2.5 goals came out seven times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for Manchester City, who scored an average of 2.4 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals happened in three of the last ten outings for Sunderland, who managed to score 1.3 times in those matches.