Luton v Sunderland is scheduled for the second leg of the EPL promotion play-off semi-final at Kenilworth Road on Tuesday, May 16 at 10:00 p.m.

Sunderland will start with the first chance against Luton in what will decide the first promotion play-off finalist after they won 2-0 in the first leg on 13 May 2023 at the Stadium of Light 1 (Diallo 39, Hume 63 respectively, Adebayo 11).

Luton finished 3rd in the Championship and their second consecutive play-off appearance after last season’s 6th-placed exit to Huddersfield in the semi-finals (1-1 at home and 0-1 away moving).

The team has been coached since last summer by Rob Edwards, a former footballer released from Aston Villa, for whom he made eight Premier League appearances, but who has spent most of his career in the Championship, playing for big names such as Wolverhampton, Crystal Palace, Barnsley or Norwich.

Luton were not among the promotion favorites at the start of the season, but managed to finish 3rd with 80 points, 11 points behind second-placed Sheffield United, who went straight up with Championship winners Burnley.

Despite being founded in 1885, 138 years ago, Luton have never played in the Premier League and have only spent six seasons (2005–07 and 2019–2023) in the Championship.

Sunderland finished 6th in the Championship with 69 points, level with 7th-placed Blackburn, qualifying for the promotion play-offs thanks to their superior goal difference.

Tony Mowbray, a former footballer who spent ten seasons at Middlesbrough, four at Celtic and five at Ipswich, has been manager of the team since last summer. In 2008, he entered the Premier League with West Bromwich Albion (he was promoted with Blackburn in 2018). from the first league to the championship).

Sunderland is one of England’s most traditional teams, having won six titles (the last in 1936) and two FA Cups (the last in 1973) and last played in the Premier League in the 2016- 2017 years. (they were relegated twice in a row, all the way to League One, from where it was promoted last summer to the Championship).

Apart from the round-robin fixture, the two teams have drawn twice in the Championship regular season, 1-1 in the away leg against Luton and also 1-1 in the second leg against Sunderland.

Superbet offers odds of 1.28 on the 1X prediction: a win at home or a draw in the match Luton – Sunderland.

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