Martin O'Neill has named an unchanged starting side to face West Brom at the Stadium of Light this afternoon (KO 12.45pm).

The only alteration comes on the bench, where Craig Gardner comes back in after completing a one-match ban.

Sunderland: Mignolet, Bardsley, Rose, Cuellar, O'Shea, Cattermole (c), Colback, Larsson, Johnson, Sessegnon, Fletcher.

Subs: Gardner, Campbell, Kilgallon, Vaughan, Westwood, McClean, Saha.

WBA: Myhill, Ridgewell, Jones, McAuley, Olsson, Yacob, Gera, Brunt (c), Morrison, Odemwingie, Long.

Subs: Popov, Rosenberg, Dorrans, Daniels, Lukaku, Tamas, Fortune.