Week 2 brings us a match on Aug 6th, where Sunderland will travel to Bristol to battle Bristol City in a clash of the Championship. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 20 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Bristol City is fresh off their 1-2 loss against Hull City. Andreas Weimann scored the first goal for Bristol City in the 30th minute, then Ozan Tufan tied it up for Hull City in the 72nd minute Finally they completed the comback in the 93rd minute on a goal by Jean-Michaël Seri to cap off a wild match. Bristol City looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 1 of their last 10, while sunderland sits at 11th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Coventry City. Jack Clarke struck first for Sunderland in the 12th minute, but Viktor Gyökeres got the equalizer for Coventry City in the 84th minute squeezing out at least the one point for Coventry City. Sunderland looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 10 points in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season.
Sunderland is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Charlie Mulgrew and Trai Hume each only have 1 goal in their last 5. Both Chris Martin and Andreas Weimann have been the hottest scorers for Bristol City in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals each.