Team news: Sunderland: Fletcher could return to the squad. Brown, Alvarez and Giaccherini will miss out. Southampton: Rodriguez has returned to training, but will miss out, as will Forster. Schneiderlin is a doubt with a knee injury. Djuricic could return to the squad. Wanyama returns from his 2 game suspension. Form: Sunderland: DLWLLD Southampton: DLWLWD Line-ups: Sunderland Pantilimon O'Shea Vergini Jones Van Aanholt Johnson Cattermole Rodwell Larsson Wickham Defoe Southampton: Davis Clyne Fonte Alderweireld Bertrand Schneiderlin Wanyama Mane Ward-Prowse Tadic Pelle Match Officials: Referee: Mike Jones Assistant Referee 1: M Scholes Assistant Referee 2: I Hussin Fourth Official: R Madley Prediction: 0-8. COYR!
I'll take any win away at the moment. Haven't won since QPR, and this is one we should be looking to get 3 points from. If Toby is still nursing that shoulder problem, I'm quite happy with Maya and Jose at CB.
Press conference & interviews with Ronald will be up tomorrow, and there is usually a gallery of the training too. We will see.
Going to this one. Want a Saints win but don't want Sunderland to go down. My nearest game, assuming Boro don't go up. After last years results against Sunderland I don't expect an easy game. They got a draw against Stoke so did better than us. Will take a scruffy 1-0.
A win here would be huge. Liverpool and Spuds still have tricky away games to come so 3 points would give us a great chance of finishing 5th.
Can see it being two things, very frustrating, or a thunderous away win. If we score early then very much on for the latter. Really glad pelle has got some form about him now in the goals department, although I don't thnk he has an away league goal since west ham. Hopefully that can change ! 0-3 saints.
I'd go for something like this: please log in to view this image No point risking Toby or Morgan if they are both struggling with injuries as I'd rather that they were fully fit for the coming games.
