Lee Johnson has named his starting XI for today’s Stadium of Light showdown against Ipswich Town.
Nathan Broadhead features alongside Ross Stewart, with Lynden Gooch and Elliot Embleton also included from the start.
Northern Ireland international Tom Flanagan drops to the bench and Dennis Cirkin misses out, as Bailey Wright returns to the line-up and Johnson is forced into a change at left-back.
Thorben Hoffmann features between the posts, with Anthony Patterson – recalled from Notts County on Friday – named on the bench in place of the injured Lee Burge.
Carl Winchester, Callum Doyle, Corry Evans, Dan Neil and Luke O’Nien also start against the Tractor Boys.
Sunderland AFC: Hoffmann, Evans, Doyle, Embleton, Broadhead, Goocj, O’Nien, Stewart, Winchester, Neil, Wright.
Substitutes: Flanagan, Alves, Dajaku, O’Brien, Patterson, Pritchard, McGeady.