Sunderland travel to the Abbey Stadium for the first time in 19 years after one stride forward this week was followed up with a slight stumble at Shrewsbury. Our last visit to Cambridge was Peter Reid’s last victory as manager of the club and ended in a 7-0 victory to Sunderland.
Last Saturday’s win over Ipswich was one of those where we just needed three points and it didn’t really make a difference how it came, but the assumption was that once we had the win under our belts we’d kick on again, and it wasn’t to be.
Allowing ten-man Shrewsbury back into the game and claim a share of the spoils in midweek was a blow, and in the midst of bad news on the injury front, increases the pressure to pick up maximum points today.
Mark Bonner performed a minor miracle last season in getting Cambridge promoted to League One in what was his first full season as not only the manager of Cambridge United,
but in the role of manager of any club. After growing up a Cambridge fan, Bonner has had a host of roles behind the scenes, progressing to the academy and then working with the first team.
Cambridge spent seven years in League Two before gaining promotion last year and despite losing Paul Mullin who scored 32 league goals last term, as well as highly rated full-back Kyle Knoyle, in the summer they have had a solid start to the season.
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Many fancied Cambridge for a swift return to League Two, but they are currently sitting 15th, seven points from the drop and nine away from the play-offs,
which would have been even better had they not thrown away a two-goal lead in the last six minutes in midweek at home to Wigan.
In terms of their home form, they might have drawn half of the ten games at the Abbey Stadium so far this season but they have only been on the losing side twice, so we could be in for a tough afternoon against a side who look hard to beat on home soil
