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Bristol City v Sunderland: Betting tips and statistics


Ross Casey, formerly top football tipster of EasyOdds and a lifelong City fan, returns to take a look at the Bristol City betting markets to help you beat the bookies.

Ross’ latest article on The Exiled Robin comes ahead of this weekend’s home fixture against the struggling Sunderland at Ashton Gate. Over to Ross…

Bristol City return from their warm weather training in Dubai looking to improve upon a disappointing performance in their 1-0 loss to Bolton last Friday. The Robins were uncharacteristically wasteful in possession and Lee Johnson was correct in suggesting that we deserved nothing from the game in his post-match conference. The current run of one win in nine is certainly a worry, but it is hoped the break in Dubai will do the squad plenty of good ahead of our fixture against The Black Cats on Saturday.

Last week we pointed out under 2.5 goals and no in the both teams to score market as valid bets, which would have both come in. I hope some of you got on those! Now to look at the latest Bristol City v Sunderland betting odds.

MATCH ODDS
Despite just one win in nine, Bristol City are a best price of 7/10 in this fixture, making them firm favourites and odds on to win. Some bookmakers go even shorter at 8/13 - so make sure you peruse an odds comparison service - this will ensure you get the best Championship odds if you are backing us.

The Robins are now sixth in the league, with Fulham taking our fifth place last weekend with their fifth Championship win in a row. Unfortunately, we lost three points on many sides, with only us and Sheffield United dropping points in the top eight in the league table.

The draw is available at 14/5 with City picking up just three from a possible 20 on their home turf this season, the last coming all the way back in October when we played out a dire 0-0 at Ashton Gate against Burton. Bristol City have drawn two of their last four home fixtures against Sunderland, however!

Sunderland have been made outsiders with best Championship odds of 5/1. When you look at some of the quality they possess within their squad that looks a very big price. They have lost four of their last five away from home though so that probably comes into the equation for the bookmakers.

KEY STATS
Sunderland have scored just two goals in their last five away matches and netted just once in their last five visits to Ashton Gate. If you fancy a clean sheet for City, there is a best price of 6/5 available.

Bristol City are beating Sunderland in the historical head to head data with The Robins winning 17 to The Black Cats’ 15. If you fancy another home win for City here, you can get best odds of 7/10.

Bristol City have only been winning at half-time in six of our 20 matches at home this season. If you think City will win but will have to wait until the second half to come good, you can back draw/Bristol City in the half-time/full-time market at 41/13.

The trio of Famara Diedhiou, Joe Bryan and Jamie Paterson are joint top scorers for Bristol City at Ashton Gate this season with five goals and they are priced up as 16/13, 22/5 and 9/4 respectively in the anytime goalscorer market.

Nine of the last 12 games at Ashton Gate this season have gone over 2.5 goals this season and the bookies have made it a best price of evens that three or more goals are scored in the fixture this weekend in the over/under market.


RECOMMENDED BEST BET
I am feeling fairly confident that we can come away with a win in this game, but I do fear that Chris Coleman has done his research and seen the likes of Millwall, Burton and Norwich come away from Ashton Gate with points in the bag thanks to a deep defensive line and allowing us to come onto them rather than looking sharp and incisive on the counter attack. For that reason, I will stay away from the odds on 7/10 price that we win outright as it seems too short a price for me.

I prefer the even money price on over 2.5 goals to be scored. That bet came in during our away 2-1 win over Sunderland earlier in the season and I can see us looking less resolute without Nathan Baker in defence as well as hoping we continue our impressive home scoring form - we are currently on 37 goals in just 20 games in all competitions at Ashton Gate!

Follow Ross on Twitter at @RossCasey24

Ross Casey has six years worth of experience in the football betting industry where he worked his way up from a data management input role all the way to being the editor thanks to his betting knowledge and his editorial skills.

Currently seeking new work after redundancy, we are happy to have the Bristol City fan who has supported the club from birth and had a season ticket for 15 years before moving to London, writing for us weekly. He now attends as many City games as possible and counts Tommy Doherty and Jon Stead among his City heroes.



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