Sunderland take on Rangers at the Estádio Municipal de Albufeira in Portugal in a pre-season friendly. Both Neil and Van Bronckhorst are set to hand a number of their senior stars more regular minutes to build up their match fitness for the new campaign. Sunderland's Anthony Patterson is currently the only senior goalkeeper on their books so he is likely to start between the sticks, while it remains to be seen whether summer recruits Ballard and Dajaku will be involved. As for Rangers, Scott Arfield, Fashion Sakaka and Josh McPake were all on the scoresheet in a 3-2 friendly victory over Partick Thistle last weekend, which saw Van Bronckhorst use 23 different players including youngsters from the academy. The likes of Aribo, Morelos, Allan McGregor, Borna Barisic, Steven Davis and Ryan Kent were not involved against the Scottish Championship side and it is unclear whether they will feature on Saturday. New recruit Colak will join up with the first-team squad in Portugal and could be in contention to play against the Black Cats. Sunderland possible starting lineup: Patterson; Hume, Wright, Batth, Cirkin; O'Nein, Evans; Roberts, Pritchard, Embleton; Stewart Rangers possible starting lineup: McLaughlin; Tavernier, Simpson, Goldson, King; Lundstram, Sands, Lowry; Arfield, Sakala, S. Wright The game between Sunderland and Rangers will be available on Premier Sports and will be live streaming the game from Portugal, with the programme starting at 7.55pm. Sunderland AFC and Rangers FC will also be offering their own streaming services to watch the match between the two clubs. SAFSee Streaming passes are on sale, priced at £7.50
I know it's only a pre-season friendly, but bloody hell man I've missed these match day threads. Top work @RTB and looking forward to these over the season.
Welcome back RTB . Great to be seeing your match posts again . Let’s hope the lads go on this season to match your commitment , thoroughness and hard work .
I echo all the above sentiments, their will be ups and downs this season, their was last , but its great to have an RTB match thread to look forward too. Thanks a .million mate, your one of the ones, as my old man would say . OaU.
Is it that time of the year again? I echo all of the above comments, thanks for the work you put in RTB
Great to see the return of the match day thread. Well done RTB. Fitness with a competitive edge to it. Enjoy everyone.
@RTB its awesome to have your match day threads back. I do hope this means a commitment for at least another year (as I told you in London). My prediction is I think we will do the skirt wearing fannies - my wife is a Rangers fan btw. Notwithstanding 3-1 to the lads FTM Hawaaaaaaay
Game is on Premier Sports...is that a Sky channel? Off to Glencoe/Fort Wlliam tomorrow and have set the firestick up in the m/h, so hoping for a stream on iptv.
