National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Wigan Athletic or Sunderland that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Wigan nor Sunderland as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Wigan Athletic form and stats
Wigan have reached this Carabao Cup stage through battling and winning against Hull City and Bolton Wanderers. Last season their Carabao Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.Wigan Athletic have played 4 League One games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-1-0 (wins-draws-losses). The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of four straight victories regardless of arena.
A strong away win for Wigan against Accrington Stanley the last match, as Jack Whatmough, Will Keane and Charlie Wyke (2) were on target. The striker Charlie Wyke won the honour of being "man of the match" for Wigan with the rating of 8.24/10. Wyke scored two goals and hit one key pass.
Ahead of that match, Wigan won a home game hosting Doncaster Rovers (2-1).The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Wigan have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 14 matches with the results: Won three, drawn seven and lost four.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Wigan as they have a new game in only four days, a League One match thankfully also at home. Cheltenham Town are visiting.
Wigan has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. Wigan have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Sunderland form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Blackpool and Port Vale in order to reach 3rd round of Carabao Cup. Last season their Carabao Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.Sunderland are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the League One, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Sunderland has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Fleetwood Town for a League One game that ended a draw (2-2). Drawing 2-2 against Fleetwood Town after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager L. Johnson needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result. Ross Stewart, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.81. Stewart scored one goal and hit one key pass.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Accrington Stanley.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Sunderland in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Sunderland, two draws and four defeats.
After this away game Sunderland return home for a League One game against Bolton Wanderers. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Sunderland have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. 4 goals have been conceded by Sunderland in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Wigan victories, two draws and five Sunderland wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Stewart 5 goals |   W. Keane 4 goals |  C. Lang 2 goals |
Wigan Athletic missing players
Sunderland missing players
| Wigan Athletic | Sunderland | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 39 | 18 | Scored | S | 24 | 41 | ||
| 24 | 12 | Conceded | C | 18 | 30 | ||
| 88% | 79% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 57% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 14% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 8% | ||
| 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 20% | ||
| 5.1 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.1 | 6.2 | ||
| 4.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.8 | ||
| 2 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.6 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.1 | 14 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 5.2 | ||
| 34% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 31% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Wigan Athletic | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 2 | Sunderland | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| 3 | Milton Keynes Dons | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 | Plymouth Argyle | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | Wycombe Wanderers | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 6 | Rotherham United | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| 7 | AFC Wimbledon | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 12 |
| 8 | Bolton Wanderers | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 9 | Cheltenham Town | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 10 | Burton Albion | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -2 | 12 |
| 11 | Accrington Stanley | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 12 | Sheffield Wednesday | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Cambridge United | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 14 | Oxford United | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 15 | Portsmouth | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 16 | Fleetwood Town | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 17 | Lincoln City | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 18 | Morecambe | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 7 |
| 19 | Ipswich Town | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 6 |
| 20 | Gillingham | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 21 | Crewe Alexandra | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 5 |
| 22 | Shrewsbury Town | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -7 | 5 |
| 23 | Charlton Athletic | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 4 |
| 24 | Doncaster Rovers | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -6 | 4 |