Norwich City 1 Sunderland 0: Highlights as Josh Sargent goal gives hosts win at Carrow Road

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Sunderland's Championship match against Norwich City at Carrow Road.

The Black Cats have drifted eight points away from the play-off places following three consecutive defeats so will be looking to get their season back on track this afternoon.

We'll have all the build-up, in-game analysis and post-match reaction from Carrow Road throughout the day. Stick around and refresh the page for live updates.

We'll start with the Sunderland team news.

Black Cats top scorer Jack Clarke has been ruled out for up to six weeks after sustaining an ankle ligament injury, meaning he could be sidelined for the team's next eight matches.

Centre-back Dan Ballard remains suspended after receiving 10 yellow cards, while Aji Alese and Bradley Dack are not quite ready to return despite doing some bit-part training.

Corry Evans has returned to training but is set to play for the under-21s side before playing for the senior team, after over a year on the sidelines with an ACL injury.

Patrick Roberts (hamstring), Dennis Cirkin (hamstring), Niall Huggins (knee) , Elliot Embleton (ankle) remain unavailable.

Here's what Sunderland interim boss Mike Dodds had to say about Norwich:

“They have got good players all over the pitch, I have watched a lot of their games, and they have a lot of threats across the pitch.

“We've got to control what we can control; we've got to concentrate on us, and Norwich will know that we've also got some good players.

“They obviously played us earlier in the season and we were excellent against them, I'm really looking forward to the game.”

Norwich have taken 11 points from their last five league games to climb to 7th in the Championship, three points off the play-off places.

David Wagner's side were held to a 1-1 draw at Blackburn last time out, though, with goalscorer Marcelino Nunez picking up a hip injury which will rule him out of today's match.

Norwich top scorer Jonny Rowe is also sidelined with a hamstring issue, along with defender Shane Duffy (calf) and winger Onel Hernandez (foot).

Here's what Norwich boss David Wagner had to say about Sunderland.

"We are totally aware of the quality Sunderland has. I think we've seen that in the return game, where they caused us massive problems and we conceded a deserved defeat.

"It's a little bit like the Watford game. We still feel that we'd like to correct something, and this is a chance to show that we are better than what we showed in the first game.

"This is the truth, I said this before the Blackburn game: these are the games where we were below par in the first game, where we didn't collect points. Now we have the chance to show that we're better than in the first game."

Here are our predicted line-ups for today's match:

Predicted Norwich XI: Gunn, Stacey, Hanley, Gibson, Giannoulis, McLean, Sara, Fassnacht, Sainz, Barnes, Sargent

Predicted Sunderland XI: Patterson, Hume, Seelt, O'Nien. Neil, Ekwah, Ba, Bellingham, Mundle, Burstow

So Mike Dodds has made two changes to his Sunderland side following last weekend's defeat against Swansea.

Luis Hemir makes his first senior start since the opening day of the season, while Romaine Mundle is also recalled to the starting XI. Abdoullah Ba and Nazariy Rusyn drop to the bench.

Norwich have made one change to their side following a 1-1 draw at Blackburn last weekend, with Ashley Barnes replacing the injured Marcelino Nunez.

Game under way!

Sunderland have reverted to a back four with Hume and Hjelde as the full-backs.

Styles is on the right in a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Mundle on the left.

Sunderland have seen more of the ball so far, passing out from the back and stringing a few passes together.

They just have to be careful they don't get caught inside their own half.

Norwich are seeing more of the ball now and just won the first corner of the match.

Sara's in-swinging delivery was cleared by Neil at the front post.

Hemir and Mundle did well to force a mistake from Gibson and win a corner there.

Sunderland played the ball short before passing it to Ekwah on the edge of the box. The midfielder's effort was comfortably held by Gunn.

That was close.

Stacey's cross from the right was turned away by Hume but the ball dropped straight to Sargent. The striker's effort hit Seelt and went behind for a corner.

Hjelde then headed away the following cross before Giannoulis fired an effort wide from the edge of the box.

It's now chucking it down with rain at Carrow Road.