Sunderland v Kidderminster: FA Cup Fourth Round Official Sunderland Not606 Match Thread please log in to view this image Stadium Of Light please log in to view this image Match Appointments Referee: Roger East Assistant Referees: Ian Hussin & Andrew Halliday Fourth Official Graham Salisbury Sunderland will be hoping to continue their cup momentum and avoid an FA Cup fourth-round upset when they host non-league Kidderminster Harriers on Saturday. Gus Poyet guided the Black Cats to Wembley in midweek with a dramatic penalty-shootout win over Manchester United in the Capital One Cup semi-final. Now from one extreme to another, as Conference playoff hopefuls Kidderminster travel to the Stadium of Light on the back of scalps over Newport County and Peterborough United in the earlier stages. With many of his first-team regulars having played 120 minutes at Old Trafford on Wednesday, Poyet is expected to heavily rotate his squad for the visit of the Midlands minnows. New Argentine signings Oscar Ustari and Santiago Vergini are expected to make their debuts in goal and defence respectively. Sunderland Team News Vito Mannone, Wes Brown and John O'Shea, Steven Fletcher, Phil Bardsley, Adam Johnson and Sung-Yong Ki may all be rested ahead of an important Premier League clash with Stoke City on Wednesday. Liverpool loanee Fabio Borini is eligible to play and, alongside Lee Cattermole, could be the only players retained from the starting XI that faced the Red Devils. Emanuele Giaccherini, Valentin Roberge and Andrea Dossena are among those that will probably be considered for recalls. Kidderminster Team News Kidderminster are 9-1 with leading bookmaker SkyBet to pull off another upset and new Harriers boss Andy Thorn, who has only been in charge for two weeks, is likely to keep faith with the side that came this far under Steve Burr, who was sacked with the club sixth in the table in January. Michael Gash has scored in his last two matches, including the win over Posh in the third-round replay, and is a name to watch out for, but Thorn will be without in-form striker Joe Lolley, who scored 11 times for Kidderminster this season before moving to Championship outfit Huddersfield last week. One To Watch please log in to view this image Duncan Watmore We're all itching to see him start. Against a level he's already prooved himself at it's the Perfect game to hand Duncan his first start for the first team. [video=youtube;wructNlI4jc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wructNlI4jc[/video] What the 'Experts' Say please log in to view this image Lawrenson I was not expecting Sunderland to get through their Capital One Cup semi-final with Manchester United but they were very good and they deserved to make the final. Kidderminster are sixth in the Conference Premier and the only non-league team left in the FA Cup. They did brilliantly to get past round three because, once Peterborough drew at Aggborough, I thought that would be it. Instead Harriers went to London Road and won the replay. On paper you would not give them a prayer at the Stadium of Light but I am going to go for a draw, because there might be a little hint of it being after the Lord Mayor's show for Sunderland. You cannot get a much bigger contrast in the two cup ties they will play in the space of four days: the first one away at United and the second at home to Kidderminster, and Black Cats boss Gus Poyet will have to make sure his players are fully focused on this match. Lawro's prediction: 1-1 Merson I predict a treble vodka. Betting please log in to view this image Links please log in to view this image
Every ****ing week mate he turns his predictions in last minute. If I wait for that **** the match thread would be up just before kick off. He's a lazy ****ing jobsworth Bill.
How they still employ him is beyond me marra. I assume it's for the take the piss factor. Folk laughing at him rather than with him.
Sunderland AFC 1 hour ago Gus Poyet says he expects new signings Santiago Vergini and Oscar Ustari to feature against Kidderminster tomorrow. Tickets for the game are still available priced at just £10 adults and £5 under-16's and over-65's.
I saw Lawro's prediction earlier. No disrespect to Kidderminster at all, they've always appeared to be a well organised club, but surely the most non-biased neutral punter would assume a PL home win over a Conference side. To me this just lays bare his dislike and disrespect of the club.
Altidore has to play from the start. He really needs a goal or two to push his confidence up. He barely played on Wednesday so won't be tired.
done a bit of tweaking, to what I hope is our line-up. i can't see Gus switching out of 4-3-3 mode. and hopefully the two young lads up front are full of running to support Jozy up front. come on Jozy, stay in control, stop flopping about under challenges and bag a couple of goals.
please log in to view this image Absolutely. Reading on one of their forums the season ticket holders are upset be the lack of support for their home games.
