Durham Women v Sunderland Women
FA Women's Championship | Maiden Castle Sports Park
Sunday, 5 November 2023 @ 12.00pm
Sunderland Women face Durham Women on Sunday seeking to protect their formidable unbeaten run in the FA Women's Championship.
Sunderland Women are unbeaten in eight, with five wins and three draws, ahead of the 12pm kick-off.
They face a Durham team who have won three and drawn two over the same number of games.
Sunderland are top of the table after eight games, of which they have won five and drawn three, earning 18 points.
Durham are six places behind Sunderland Women in seventh, with three wins and two draws putting them on 11 points.
In Claudia Moan, the visitors can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. She has kept four clean sheets in her eight appearances this season, and no 'keeper has prevented the opposition scoring more often in the FA Women's Championship.
In Durham Women's net, Naoisha McAloon has two clean sheets in five games. She has conceded a goal every 41 minutes, six times as often as the 240 minutes between goals for Moan.
With nine goals in eight games so far this season, the home side are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.1 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 16 goals at a rate of 2.0 per game.
Sunderland, meanwhile, are average scorers, with 1.4 goals per game. They have conceded 0.5 goals per game.
In the last five years, Durham and Sunderland have played each other on four occasions. Durham won two of them, Sunderland one, and they drew once.
On average, Durham Women scored 2.0 goals and Sunderland Women 1.0 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on January 15, when Sunderland won 3-2 at home.
Durham's last match was on October 22, a 2-1 win against Blackburn Rovers Ladies, with Saoirse Noonan getting the goals for Durham Women.
Sunderland beat Lewes Women 2-0 last time out, also on October 22, with Brianna Westrup and Jenna Dear on the scoresheet.