Black Cats unchanged for Toffees visit

Sunderland boss Martin O’Neill kept faith with the men who secured a second victory in three games at QPR for this afternoon’s home clash with Everton.

Toffees counterpart David Moyes made two changes as he looked to build upon the 1-0 win over Swansea.

Sylvain Distin and Tim Cahill, without a goal for the club in more than a year, replaced the injured Seamus Coleman and Marouane Fellaini.

Sunderland: Westwood, O’Shea, Bramble, Brown, Bardsley, Larsson, Cattermole, Vaughan, Richardson, Sessegnon, Bendtner.

Subs: Carson, Gardner, Kilgallon, Colback, Ji, McClean, Elmohamady.

Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Distin, Jagielka, Baines, Drenthe, Neville, Heitinga, Osman, Cahill, Saha.

Subs: Mucha, Bilyaletdinov, Stracqualursi, McFadden, Gueye, Barkley, Vellios.

Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire)