Sam Allardyce has named his side ahead of Sunderland’s first pre-season game as the Black Cats take on Hartlepool United at Victoria Park.
Fresh from signing a new contract, Vito Mannone starts between the sticks with Jermain Defoe and Patrick van Aanholt, who have also signed new deals also in the starting XI.
Tonight is the first chance fans will get to see Fabio Borini’s new-look as he starts against Pools, with Lamine Kone and Whabi Khazri, who were late-comers to the training camp in Austria also starting.
Sunderland: Mannone, Jones, Kaboul, Kone, van Aanholt, Cattermole, Lens, Rodwell, Defoe, Borini, Khazri.
