Sunderland travel to The Den to face Millwall in the Championship. Last time out Sunderland lost to Huddersfield and Millwall lost at Ipswich. The Black Cats dropped to 11th place after losing 2-1 at home to Huddersfield. Tony Mowbray is under growing pressure as his team failed to convert the chances created and have lost their last two games. Bennette has a virus and Rusyn has a groin injury and are both unlikely to feature. Millwall lost 3-1 away at Ipswich. A second successive defeat for new Millwall boss Joe Edwards which leaves Millwall in 19th place, seven points above the drop zone. Ex Black Cat George Honeyman is expected to start but Duncan Watmore has an injury. Tony Mowbray: “In this division there’s always a game around the corner to put things right, “It’s a difficult place to go, but we’ll prepare the team for what will hopefully be a positive performance and the result to match. “We weren’t good enough on Wednesday – we knew what to expect, but we lacked the creativity and we have to take that on the chin. “The supporters turn up in great numbers week in, week out and that’s why it’s disappointing when we put in a performance that’s under par. “All our focus is now on Millwall and getting back to winning ways.” Joe Edwards: "The nature of last night’s performance means there was definitely bits to learn and take from it tactically but the biggest issue was just our general application, intensity and how the early setbacks rocked us. It soon became one of those games where at some stage you have to put it to bed pretty quickly and accept it was one of those nights where you played really poorly – not get overly dragged into the tactical analysis. “Maybe on another day if we had more time before the next one then we would. I think I’ve tried to get that balance of whizzing through it, seeing what we need to see and taking bits from it, versus moving on and getting ready for Sunderland. “It definitely didn’t scream out to me as it was wrong tactically or structurally with the team. It was that in all elements of the basics we were second best to a team that is in real good form, in general.” Match Appointments: Referee: JAMES LININGTON Assistant Referees: Andrew Fox and Mark Pottage Fourth Official: Oliver Langford Team Lineups: Sunderland AFC: (4-2-3-1) Patterson, Seelt, Ballard, O’Nien, Huggins, Hume, Neil, Ekwah, Clarke, Roberts, Mayenda Subs: Bishop, Triantis, Hemir, Jobe, Pritchard, Ba, Rigg, Aouchiche, Dack Injured: Evans, Alese, Matete, Cirkin, Pembele. Millwall (5-4-1) Bialkowski, Harding, Hutchinson, Wallace, Norton-Cuffy, De Norre, Saville, Longman, Emakhu, Bradshaw, Flemming. Subs: Cooper, Nisbet, Mitchell, Campbell, Leonard, Sarkic, Esse, Honeyman, Adom-Malaki Injured: Bryan, McNamara, Watmore Betting Odds: Sunderland 13/10 Millwall 21/10 Draw 23/10 Prutton Predicts: 1-1 My two pence: The games come thick and fast, hopefully Tony can turn things around and get us scoring a few more goals than the opposition. I’m going for a 1-1 draw. Live Stream: This game is available to overseas fans on https://safc.com/news/team-news/live-video please log in to view this image Ha’way the Lads
1-1 draw but a much improved performance is my prediction. Safe travels to everyone heading down. HTL.
the corners situation worries me, can they actually get a header on target once more this season ? we need to keep up there before January and go for a big striker signing, but who ? as for the train strike etc the supporters should be flying down there courtecy of the football club after the last 2 games debicle. i still say 1-2 to us but with Pritchard and Rigg starting.
I was going to post my team but you beat me to it RTB. Maybe Adil for Ekwah but I'm not sure about that. I'd like us to try a deep lying midfielder I think we'd benefit from it and O'Nien would be perfect for it. Our defence needs extra protection and our CMs apart from Neil aren't defensive minded but have quality and it'd free them up to play their natural game.
Not a bad team RTB I’d take roberts out and stick ba in, hopefully we have a strong ref because we will probably get kicked a lot.
Need to turn the corner. Recent away from has been abysmal with hardly any goals and minimal points return.
Agree with that. We had some excellent away wins so it can happen again. I wouldn't say our performances have been abysmal although the results certainly are. There's a few spare tickets if anyone needs any, let me know.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/s...roberts-previews-millwall-successive-defeats/ Sunderland: Patrick Roberts previews Millwall after successive defeats By Dominic Shaw PATRICK Roberts says Sunderland's players take responsibility for the two disappointing Plymouth and Huddersfield defeats and are desperate to get back on track when the Black Catshead for Millwall tomorrow. "I think we have to take responsibility as a team, the manager will take his responsibility and we’ll take responsibility as players and take accountability that we’ve not been good enough," said the winger. "It’s something we have to sort out, myself included, and produce on the pitch. Everyone needs to dig in now, recover and go again at the weekend. "We have quite a lot of the squad under the age of 23. Even I class myself as quite young and I’m 26, nearly 27. "It’s hard but at the same time we’re a big club and there are those expectations on you, no matter your age you should be going out there wanting to impress and wanting to show you are a good player and win for this team." Huddersfield set up to stifle on Wednesday night and while Roberts admits Sunderland find it easier playing against teams that want to go toe-to-toe rather than frustrate, he says it's something the Black Cats have to deal with and overcome if they want to repeat last season's top six finish. "You have so many men behind the ball there is only so much you can do and sometimes it’s really hard to break them down and that’s what they’ve come here to do," he says. "Teams come here to do that and we have to find ways if we want to be up there right at the end. We have to find ways of breaking down defences like that . We have to look at it, learn from it and take it into the next game. "It can be a bit easier against other teams but then they also have the quality so if you are not putting it away then you have to be solid at the back as they can damage. We have to be a team that a lot of teams fear and show that we can score goals and keep them out as well. "All aspects need to come together as a team and we’ll work on that together. We win together and lose together. We can only learn."
