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Sunderland face West Ham United at the Stadium of Light in the Premier League.
Last time out Sunderland lost to Rayo Vallecano and West Ham drew with Lille Olympique Sporting Club.
The Black Cats return to the Premier League for the first time since 2017, an absence of 8 years.
Sunderland have signed defender Omar Alderete from Spanish side Getafe for £10.4m. The Paraguay international has agreed a four-year deal. Alderete is Sunderland's 11th signing of the summer, taking their total spend beyond £130m since their victorious play-off win at Wembley.
West Ham suffered just one defeat in their pre-season preparations, losing to Manchester United in the United States, while beating Grasshoppers, Everton and Bournemouth before defeating Lille on penalties at the weekend.
The Hammers finished last season in 14th position and have made 5 new signings with the most expensive being jean-Clair Todibo arriving from Nice for a fee in the region of €40m. El Hadji Malick Diouf has impressed during pre-season.
Regis le Bris:
“I liked the whole behaviour of the team, the squad, the players. Obviously today was a bit tougher because I think our opponent today was ready to go for La Liga and we had a team with different references and players. It wasn’t easy to find the right balance, but until the end they tried and I think that was the most important today.
We need time but we don’t have time because performance is needed, we can feel that the energy is positive, we know that the challenge will be tough and the gap to reach will be really important but at the same time our togetherness, our intensity, our desire to play for Sunderland will help.
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Graham potter:
Our next match is against Sunderland in the Premier League, which is going to be a totally different challenge, but at the same time I was really pleased with the spirit of some of our attacking play, for sure.
I couldn’t have asked for any more in terms of how open and responsive the players have been to what we’ve been trying to do. Everyone’s been trying to connect - staff and players - and it’s a good feeling.
But we also know we’re going into the Premier League now and we have to regroup and focus again. There’s a week to go, and we’re all really looking forward to the match up in Sunderland.
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Match Appointments:
Referee: Robert Jones
Assistant Referees: Nick Greenhalgh & Matthew Wilkes
Fourth Official: Anthony Taylor
Video Assistant Referee: Stuart Atwell
Additional Video Assistant Referee: Natalie Aspinall
Team Lineups:
Sunderland AFC: Roefe, Hume, Seelt, Ballard, Reinildo, Xhaka, Sadiki, Diarra, Talbi, Adingra, Mayenda.
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Subs: Patterson, Huggins, Masuaku, Neil, Le Fée, Rigg, Roberts, Isidor, Guiu
Injured: O’Nien, Alese, Cirkin, Hjelde, Mundle,
West Ham United: Areola, Wan Bissaka, Aguerd, Todibo, Kilman, Diouf, Ward-Prowse, Potts, Paqueta, Bowen, Fullkrug.
Subs: Foderingham, Awesu, Walker-Peters, Alvarez, Mavropanos, Guilherme, Rodriguez, Soucek, Wilson.
Injured: Summerville
Betting Odds:
Sunderland 21/10 West Ham United 6/5 Draw 23/10
My two pence:
I’m fairly confident that RLB will go with the starting 11 against Augsburg, unless we break our transfer record before Friday morning.
KLD has certainly shown ambition with the new signings and clearly wants to stay in the Premier League.
I'm travelling up for this one and looking forward to meeting up with a few friends and will definitely be staying til the end
I’m going for a winning start, 2-1 to the greatest team the world has ever seen.
Live Stream:
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Ha’way the Lads
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