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| Sunderland v Newcastle: Premier League – live! | Sunderland v Newcastle: Premier League – live! |
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| 3.56pm BST15:56 | |
| Here come the teams! A feast of football awaits. There’s no reason to expect anything less from these two magnificent teams. | |
| 3.53pm BST15:53 | |
| If you’re looking for omens, Di Canio and Poyet both lost their first Sunderland match and then won their second. Against Newcastle. You do the math. | |
| 3.46pm BST15:46 | |
| This is Jonas Gutierrez’s first start for Newcastle since August 2013. A feelgood story if ever there was one. | |
| 3.31pm BST15:31 | |
| Burnley’s 0-0 draw with Tottenham means that Sunderland will drop into the bottom three if they lose 2-0. | |
| Updated at 3.46pm BST | |
| 3.12pm BST15:12 | 3.12pm BST15:12 |
| Team news | Team news |
| Sunderland: Pantilimon; Jones, Vergini, O’Shea, Van Aanholt; Larsson, Cattermole, Gomez; Wickham; Fletcher, Defoe. Subs: Bridcutt, Johnson, Reveillere, Graham, Coates, Mannone, Buckley. | Sunderland: Pantilimon; Jones, Vergini, O’Shea, Van Aanholt; Larsson, Cattermole, Gomez; Wickham; Fletcher, Defoe. Subs: Bridcutt, Johnson, Reveillere, Graham, Coates, Mannone, Buckley. |
| Newcastle: Krul; Ryan Taylor, Janmaat, Williamson, Gutierrez; Colback, Sissoko; Gouffran, Cabella, Ameobi; Perez. Subs: Anita, Elliot, Obertan, Riviere, Abeid, Armstrong, Kemen. | Newcastle: Krul; Ryan Taylor, Janmaat, Williamson, Gutierrez; Colback, Sissoko; Gouffran, Cabella, Ameobi; Perez. Subs: Anita, Elliot, Obertan, Riviere, Abeid, Armstrong, Kemen. |
| Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral) | Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral) |
| Updated at 3.12pm BST | Updated at 3.12pm BST |
| 3.00pm BST15:00 | 3.00pm BST15:00 |
| Hello. Watching Sunderland on a regular basis cannot be fun. By my rough calculations, this is a team that has played well on roughly eight occasions in the past three years, which isn’t going to do much for anyone’e sense of chi. Martin O’Neill tried to bring the good times to the Stadium of Light. He failed. Paolo Di Canio tried. He banned ketchup. He did keep them up in 2013. But, ultimately, he failed and it was over to Gus Poyet. He got them to the League Cup final and kept them up against all the odds last season. But he failed in the end, his final match ending in a humiliating 4-0 home defeat to Tim Sherwood’s Aston Villa three weeks ago. Sunderland’s managers always seem to fail in the end. Dick Advocaat has a tough old job on his hands and it didn’t start well, his first match ending in a late 1-0 defeat to West Ham two weeks ago. | Hello. Watching Sunderland on a regular basis cannot be fun. By my rough calculations, this is a team that has played well on roughly eight occasions in the past three years, which isn’t going to do much for anyone’e sense of chi. Martin O’Neill tried to bring the good times to the Stadium of Light. He failed. Paolo Di Canio tried. He banned ketchup. He did keep them up in 2013. But, ultimately, he failed and it was over to Gus Poyet. He got them to the League Cup final and kept them up against all the odds last season. But he failed in the end, his final match ending in a humiliating 4-0 home defeat to Tim Sherwood’s Aston Villa three weeks ago. Sunderland’s managers always seem to fail in the end. Dick Advocaat has a tough old job on his hands and it didn’t start well, his first match ending in a late 1-0 defeat to West Ham two weeks ago. |
| Still, if there’s one consolation for Big Dick, it is that this most moribund of teams tend to reserve their best stuff for this fixture. Sunderland have won their past four meetings against Newcastle, once under Di Canio and three times under Poyet, and they’ll be desperate for that run to continue this afternoon. They have not won in the league since January, they are only a point above the bottom three and it’s looking grim. Sunderland have won only four times in the league this season, although they may have a good chance of making that paltry record five against a Newcastle side that has won twice in 2015 and once in their past five matches. Unless, of course, the proudest of proud Proud Geordies, John Carver, has decided nothing less than a quarter-baked performance from his collection of heroic high-achievers. | Still, if there’s one consolation for Big Dick, it is that this most moribund of teams tend to reserve their best stuff for this fixture. Sunderland have won their past four meetings against Newcastle, once under Di Canio and three times under Poyet, and they’ll be desperate for that run to continue this afternoon. They have not won in the league since January, they are only a point above the bottom three and it’s looking grim. Sunderland have won only four times in the league this season, although they may have a good chance of making that paltry record five against a Newcastle side that has won twice in 2015 and once in their past five matches. Unless, of course, the proudest of proud Proud Geordies, John Carver, has decided nothing less than a quarter-baked performance from his collection of heroic high-achievers. |
| Kick-off: 4pm. | Kick-off: 4pm. |