This is the first meeting between Crystal Palace and Sunderland since February 2017 in the Premier League – the Black Cats won 4-0 at Selhurst Park.

The away team has won five of the last six Premier League meetings between Crystal Palace and Sunderland (D1) – in eight games between the sides, the only home win was in August 2013, Palace winning 3-1 at Selhurst Park.

Crystal Palace are on the longest current unbeaten league run of any Premier League side (9 – W3 D6). They last went 10 top-flight games unbeaten between May and October 1990 (12).

Crystal Palace have lost just one of their last 16 Premier League matches against newly promoted sides (W10 D5), losing 2-1 to Luton Town in November 2023.

Sunderland have won two of their three Premier League games this season (L1), the first newly promoted side to win 2+ of their opening three matches of a campaign in the division since Leeds United in 2020-21 (also 2). Only two promoted clubs have started a Premier League season with three wins in their first four games: Nottingham Forest in 1994-95 and Bolton Wanderers in 2001-02.

Crystal Palace have applied the most high-intensity pressures to opponents in the Premier League this season (1,081), with winger Ismaïla Sarr making the joint-most of any player (199), while Sarr (130, 1st), Daniel Muñoz (107, 2nd) and Tyrick Mitchell (103, 4th) are all in the top-four for high intensity pressures in their own half.

Sunderland are yet to score a first half goal in the Premier League this season, having just 11 shots in the opening 45 minutes – in the second half, the Black Cats have scored five goals from 20 shots, with only Liverpool scoring more second half goals in the division this term (6).

Ismaïla Sarr has had a hand in nine goals in his last 12 Crystal Palace starts in all competitions (6 goals, 3 assists). Since the first game in this run on 26 April, only Chelsea’s Enzo Fernández has more goals and assists combined among Premier League players (5 goals, 8 assists).

Crystal Palace midfielder Will Hughes is the only player to be booked in all three Premier League games so far this season. Four players have been yellow carded in each of their side’s first four matches of season in the competition: Chris Morris for Middlesbrough in 1995-96, Paul Williams for Coventry in 1997-98, James Perch for Newcastle in 2010-11, and Adam Smith for Bournemouth in 2022-23.

Despite not starting a single Premier League game yet, Sunderland’s Wilson Isidor has netted two goals in three games in 2025-26. He's one of four players to score two or more goals in his first three Premier League games without starting any, along with Alan Smith in 1998 (2), Hernán Crespo in 2005 (3), and Álvaro Negredo in 2013 (2).