Sunderland AFC v Burnley Preview & Match Thread

Not as confident as Les, Sheff Wed were not great TBH, defeat for me, but it will give us a good guide to where we are at and need to be.

Think it will also test our midfield and defence Les.

No reason at all Roker why we can't beat them, it's 11 v 11 when it comes down to it, but I think their players are more experienced and more savvy than ours, our players will only gain that by playing the likes of Burnley, so that's why I can see us struggling, the likes of Neil and Jobe have to up their game, they won't be able to step over the ball and twist and turn on the ball as they both like to do, they will get caught out, as Neil did in the first 10 -15 minutes against Wednesday and we could and should have paid for it.
Would love nothing better to get another 3 points on the board, but I think it will be a hard task.

Hi everyone - newby here so I'll start with this...
Les, Gordon - can you move it to the opening post, if that's allowed 


Sunderland welcome Burnley to the Stadium of Light in the Championship.
Last time out Sunderland beat Sheffield Wednesday and Burnley beat Cardiff.
Sunderland made one change to the expected starting 11 with Chris Rigg replacing the injured Alan Browne. The Black Cats stormed to a 3-0 lead within the first 25 minutes as they blew Danny Rohl’s team away. Eliezer Mayenda added a fourth just after the break to seal a 4-0 win.
Alan Browne could return to the side after injury and Ian Poveda played 45 minutes for the U21s on Monday and could be on the bench for this game. Triantis picked up a knock on Monday and might be a doubt.
Burnley are top of the Championship table after an impressive 4-1 away win at Luton and a 5-0 home win against Cardiff.
Burnley midfielder Sander Berge has moved to Fulham after the Clarets accepted a £25m bid for the Norway international. Wilson Odobert and Scott Twine left last week and various other players including keeper James Trafford are linked with moves away. They have recently signed centre back Bashir Humphreys from Chelsea and Andreas Hountondji from Caen.
Regis le Bris:
“I will find many elements, phases and moments of the game where we can improve, for me, it’s the beginning of the season. It’s okay with the dynamic.”
“We prefer to have six points now as opposed to three or two or none but we have 44 games. It’s so long but I am happy with the start for sure. We still have the same mindset to improve.”
“Nothing is close at the moment," Le Bris said prior to the game against the Owls. "We are working really hard, we’re in discussions with many players in and out. We are confident, this market is very difficult, the process is complex but I think we will succeed maybe in the next few days.”

Presser:


Scott Parker:
“Overall a really good game, they caused us problems early on, we had to weather it in certain moments, a fortunate goal for us to go 1-0 up.”
“I want us to be a dominant team, a fast attacking team when we can, dominate the game in certain moments and in the overall game we did that.”
“At the end of the game the fans staying in their droves to obviously support the team and see the team out”
“Support wise it was fantastic for us”

Match Appointments
Referee: STEPHEN MARTIN
Assistant Referees: Mark Dwyer & Blake Antrobus
Fourth Official: Martin Coy

Team Lineups:
Sunderland AFC: (4-3-3) Patterson, Cirkin, Alese, O’Nien, Hume, Neil, Rigg, Jobe, Clarke, Mayenda, Roberts

Subs: Moore, Browne, Hjelde, Aouchiche, Poveda, Ekwah Ba, Rusyn, Mundle
Injured: Ballard, Huggins, Seelt, Triantis.

Burnley FC: (4-2-3-1) Hladký, Pires, Estève, O'Shea, Roberts, Brownhill (c), Cullen, Koleosho, Rodriguez, Vitinho, Foster.
Subs: Green, Hountondji, Egan-Riley, Massengo, McNally, Gudmundsson, Weghorst, Zaroury.
Injured: Ramsey, Redmond, Ekdal, Beyer.

Betting Odds:
Sunderland 2/1 Burnley 13/10 Draw 23/10

Prutton Predicts: meh

My two pence:
A fantastic display against the Owls and a great start for Regis Le Bris at the SoL. It was an outstanding team performance, with 4 or 5 players vying for the man of the match award.
Hopefully we get a few deals sorted this week and Burnley lose a few more of their star players.
The Clarets look very strong and blew away both Luton and Cardiff but we’ve also started well and given our home advantage we can win this.
I’m going for a 3-2 home win.

Live Stream:
www.safc.com/live
for overseas fans

Ha’way the Lads

I don't know who 'roker' is but rtb's match threads are brilliant . . . . welcome to this site, both of you 🙂

Not driving down for this one, feels like I've just got back 🙄

Should be a good game hopefully, will be watching it on the stick 👍