The blues travel northeast to face the lowest side in the championship this season needing victory to cement a place at the top of the pile following Arsenal's defeat to Everton on Tuesday night.While we expect a routine win for the blues,the black cats are surely no pushovers having beaten us on our last trip to Wednesday night's venue.

A first half Khazri strike cancelled out Diego Costa's opening goal in the fourteenth minute.Matic put us back in the lead just before halftime but the hosts rallied to score two in the space of three second half minutes as they edged closer to safety.John Terry's red card late on worsened matters for the then struggling blues although we had convincingly beaten them 3:1 in our first game of the post Mourinho era.Ivanovic,Pedro and Oscar were our scorers on that occasion.

While the blues are on a run of nine consecutive victories, Sunderland have taken nine points from their last five games meaning they are no minnows according to Conte.

Sunderland Vs Chelsea Head To Head

This is the 124th meeting between both teams.The blues have triumphed on 59 occasions while our hosts have managed 42 wins.There have been 22 stalemates.

Sunderland Vs Chelsea Recent Meetings


19 Apr 2014 Chelsea 1 v 2 Sunderland

29 Nov 2014 Sunderland 0 v 0 Chelsea

24 May 2015 Chelsea 3 v 1 Sunderland

19 Dec 2015 Chelsea 3 v 1  Sunderland

07 May 2016 Sunderland 3 v 2 Chelsea

Sunderland Vs Chelsea Recent League Form
Sunderland W W L W L

Chelsea W W W W W

Team News

Conte reported no fresh injuries in his press conference but didn't provide convincing prove that he had all squad players fit for the trip to the Stadium of light.

Kante, Matic,Luiz and Diego Costa are one booking away from missing a game in this first half of the season.Marcos Alonso will be coming up against his former employees for the first time since moving back to the Premier league.

Sunderland midfielder Ndong will miss the game through suspension.

Go Blues!