Huddersfield 0 Sunderland 2: Highlights Alex Pritchard and Amad Diallo goals gives Cats win

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Sunderland’s Championship fixture against Huddersfield Town.

The Black Cats have just three games remaining until the World Cup break and will be hoping to get back to winning ways after three matches without a victory.

We’ll have all the build-up from The John Smith’s Stadium, as well as in-game analysis and post-match reaction.

Stick around and refresh the page for live updates.

We’ll start with the Sunderland team news.

Black Cats winger Jack Clarke will be unavailable tonight after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season against Luton, resulting in a one-game suspension.

Ellis Simms made his long-awaited comeback at Kenilworth Road after being sidelined with a toe injury, yet Mowbray has hinted the striker is is not quite ready to start games

Ross Stewart, Aji Alese, Dan Ballard and Lynden Gooch remain unavailable with injuries but are expected to be fit to face Millwall on December 3rd after the World Cup break.

After tonight’s match Sunderland will host Cardiff on Saturday, before a trip to Birmingham .

“We’ve got three games now, two of them are away from home,” said Mowbray. “But we have to accrue some points and go into this international break really looking forward to bringing some players back in that two or three week period.

“Then we can really get after the second half of the season. I believe that we are going to be competitive and really focus on trying to win games.”

Huddersfield are bottom of the table despite a 1-0 win over Millwall last time out.

To find out more we caught up with Brady Frost from Huddersfield podcast And He Takes The Chance to find out more.

Here’s what he said when asked about The Terriers’ key players:

“Sorba Thomas’ delivery from set pieces is key to this side that has struggled to score from open play, but he’s suspended for this game.

“Lee Nicholls, who was in the Team of the Year last season has kept some of the scores much more respectable than they should be, so look forward to his time-wasting antics if Huddersfield take the lead.

“David Kasumu is a tenacious midfielder who’s looking to fill the hole left by Lewis O’Brien and covers a lot of ground so you’ll see him and Jordan Rhodes, who’ll likely be on the bench, try to make an impact and cause problems by winning those annoying free-kicks to get the side further up the field.”

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Here’s what Huddersfield boss Mark Fotheringham had to say about Sunderland and Tony Mowbray ahead of tonight’s match.

“Sunderland are a very dangerous team, they have got many offensive players that can hurt us on the day.

“They play exciting football and they have got a fantastic manager there in Tony Mowbray, who’s a very well-respected man in the game.

“He’s someone that I respect as well because he was the captain of Glasgow Celtic when I was a young guy and he created the huddle and all these things.

“He’s a person that I very much look up to, however, when the whistle goes at the weekend it becomes competitive.”

Predicted Huddersfield XI: Nicholls, Jackson, Lees, Helik, Nakayama, Kasumu, Camara, Mahoney, Rudoni, Holmes, Ward

Predicted Sunderland XI: Patterson, O’Nien, Wright, Batth, Cirkin, Evans, Neil, Roberts, Pritchard, Embleton, Amad

So it’s two changes from the side which started against Luton on Saturday.

Elliot Embleton and Patrick Roberts return to the starting XI in place of the suspended Jack Clarke and Dan Neil, who drops to the bench.

Leon Dajaku will once again start up front.

There’s no Edouard Michut in the squad because of a groin issue.

Huddersfield have made four changes following their 1-0 win over Millwall last time out.

Josh Ruffels, Duane Holmes and Jordan Rhodes have all come back into the side, while 18-year-old Brodie Spencer is making his full Championship debut.