Poyet hoping to extend QPR’s away day blues

Sunderland v QPR: Tonight: Gus Poyet has urged his resurgent Sunderland team not to become the first to surrender a Premier League point to struggling QPR on their own pitch.

Managerless Rangers head for the Stadium of Light tonight having emerged empty-handed from each of their previous 11 league games away from home, a return which has piled the pressure on them at Loftus Road.

They will arrive on Wearside sitting in 19th place in the league and in desperate need of ending their travel sickness if they are to drag themselves out of relegation trouble. However, Black Cats boss Poyet knows that record will end sooner rather than later, and does not want it to happen tonight.