{"id":39347,"date":"2025-12-28T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39347"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:18:18","slug":"sunderland-v-leeds-united-premier-league-live-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39347","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland v Leeds United: Premier League \u2013 live | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><span id=\"key-events-carousel-mobile\"\/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><\/p>\n<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"filter-toggle-mobile\"\/>Show key events only<\/p>\n<p><span>Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dcr-1wl2b6o\">Team news<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Dennis Cirkin<\/strong> replaces the injured Dan Ballard in the only change from Sunderland\u2019s 0-0 draw at Brighton. It\u2019s Cirkin\u2019s Premier League debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Leeds \u2013 surprise, surprise \u2013 stick with the XI that hammered Crystal Palace 4-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Sunderland (possible 4-2-3-1) <\/strong>Roefs; Mukiele, Cirkin, Alderete, Geertruida; Hume, Xhaka; Rigg, Le Fee, Adingra; Brobbey.<br \/><em>Subs: Patterson, Tutierov, J Jones, Hjelde, H Jones, Neil, Mundle, Mayenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Leeds (3-3-2-2) <\/strong>Perri; Rodon, Bijol, Struijk; Bogle, Ampadu, Gudmundsson; Aaronson, Stach; Calvert-Lewin, Okafor.<br \/><em>Subs: Darlow, Justin, Bornaut, Harrison, Tanaka, Gruev, Gnonto, Piroe, Nmecha.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Referee <\/strong>Tony Harrington.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a008.01 EST<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dcr-1wl2b6o\">Preamble<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hello, merry betwixtmas (sic) and welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of Sunderland v Leeds at the Stadium of Light. Nothing sleepy about these giants, who have given the kiss of life to the concept of promotion from the Championship to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sunderland are arguably the team of the season so far and will go fifth \u2013 fifth! \u2013 if they win today. Leeds may be in a relegation battle but they are full of the joys after a superb recent run of eight points in four games. Three of those games were at home, albeit to very good opposition, so Leeds\u2019 challenge is to prove they can do it on a wet, windy day somewhere other than Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If they do that over the next couple of months, survival will be a doddle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Kick off <\/strong>2pm.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a007.47 EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Team news Dennis Cirkin replaces the injured Dan Ballard in the only change from Sunderland\u2019s 0-0 draw at Brighton. It\u2019s Cirkin\u2019s Premier League debut. Leeds \u2013 surprise, surprise \u2013 stick with the XI that hammered Crystal Palace 4-1 on Saturday. Sunderland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[3504,1397,132,1706,8971,3677],"class_list":{"0":"post-39347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-league","9":"tag-leeds","10":"tag-live","11":"tag-premier","12":"tag-sunderland","13":"tag-united"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}