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Sunderland vs Newcastle United Full Match Highlights — Sunderland vs Newcastle United Full Match 2025-26

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English Commentary
December 14, 2025

Experiencing his first taste of a Tyne-Wear derby atmosphere this weekend, Regis Le Bris certainly does not need telling twice about the magnitude of Sunday’s occasion for supporters and the entire city, who have certainly taken to him since his arrival. With the former Lorient boss at the helm, the newly-promoted Black Cats are threatening to upset the European apple cart in the Premier League, although recent results have been somewhat of a reality check for last season’s Championship playoff winners.

Only one of the hosts’ last six Premier League games has ended in victory – although they did steal points off of Arsenal and Liverpool during that sequence – and Le Bris’s team were swept aside 3-0 by Manchester City last weekend. Nevertheless, the Mackems’ ninth-placed ranking in the Premier League table exceeds all pre-season expectations placed before them, and home has been where the heart is for Sunderland all season long.

Indeed, Le Bris’s side have gone unbeaten in each of their first seven top-flight games at the Stadium of Light this season – only leaders Arsenal are also yet to lose a home match in the 2025-26 Premier League – and their 15 points on familiar turf is more than they managed in the entirety of the 2016-17 term. The above statistics are not the only ones in Sunderland’s favour this weekend, as it has been a remarkable 10 games since the Black Cats lost to Newcastle in a league game – a 1-0 defeat at the Stadium of Light in August 2011.

The Magpies have since lost three on the spin at Sunderland’s ground in league football, meaning that Eddie Howe could make the worst kind of derby history on Sunday; Newcastle have never lost four successive league games away to the Black Cats. The visitors prepare for another taxing away day on the back of an energy-zapping trip to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, where the 2023-24 Bundesliga champions rescued a 2-2 draw, albeit one that extended Newcastle’s unbeaten run to four games in all tournaments.

Howe’s men are also enjoying their best moment of the season domestically, taking 10 points from their last four Premier League matches to rise up to 12th in the standings, just one point adrift of their Tyne-Wear rivals.

Newcastle’s most recent Premier League away day also brought their first top-flight away win of the season – a 4-1 success at Everton – but both that result, and last year’s FA Cup success at the Stadium of Light, will likely mean little when the first whistle blows.