Sunderland 1 Crewe 1: Highlights as Cats are knocked out of Carabao Cup on penalties despite Chris Rigg goal

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Sunderland’s Carabao Cup first-round tie against Crewe.

Black Cats boss Tony Mowbray is set to make wholesale changes and rotate his side following Sunday’s 2-1 defeat against Ipswich.

We’ll have all the build-up ahead of the match, as well as in-game analysis and post-match reaction.

Just stick around and refresh the page for live updates.

Mowbray is set to rotate his side following Sunday’s 2-1 defeat against Ipswich.

Danny Batth is set to be recalled to the Black Cats’ starting XI after being named on the bench at the weekend.

The 32-year-old centre-back, who was voted Sunderland’s player of the season by supporters last term, has attracted interest from Blackburn this summer but remains part of Mowbray’s plans.

“No change with Danny,” said Mowbray after the Ipswich game.

“He’ll play on Tuesday night, so we’ll just wait and see. We’ll see how it goes, whether the phone rings.”

New goalkeeper Nathan Bishop, centre-back Nectarios Triantis and playmaker Bradley Dack are also expected to make their competitive Sunderland debuts tonight.

Here’s what Mowbray said about tonight’s match following the Ipswich game on Sunday.

“The turnaround between Ipswich in the Championship on Sunday evening and then Crewe on Tuesday night is just too tight to play the same XI twice in 48 hours.

“So there will be a lot of changes tonight, as you’d expect, and the players will have another chance to give a better account of themselves than they did last week.”

Crewe finished 13th in League Two last season and drew 2-2 with Mansfield in League Two in their opening game of the season on Sunday.

When asked about his team selection for tonight’s match, manager Lee Bell said:

“There won’t be massive changes, but the ones who come in have to take their chance to stake a claim going forward. Everyone we select will be a professional and already in or around the team.

“I’d expect (Sunderland) to make changes because they have had less rest than us, and I believe we could come up with an upset.

“We have to embrace the challenge. Sunderland are getting back toward where they should be and they have a really good manager.

“We have to enjoy the game but we aren’t going there to make the numbers up, we want to execute our plan. We are really looking forward to it.

“Hopefully there will be some Crewe fans and we can put on a good display for them.”

Here are our predicted line-ups for tonight’s match:

Predicted Sunderland XI: Bishop, Huggins, Batth, Triantis, Taylor, Rigg, Pritchard, Gooch, Dack, Ba, Bennette

Predicted Crewe XI: Booth, Cooney, Sass-Davies, Williams, Adebisi, Holicek, Colkett, Griffiths, Long, Baker-Richardson

Sunderland are still looking to strengthen their striker options before the end of the transfer window on September 1.

With Ross Stewart and new signing Eliezer Mayenda out injured, Hemir is the club’s only available senior forward.

Following Sunday’s defeat against Ipswich, Mowbray said:

“You have to put the ball in the net when the chances come and I don’t want to keep banging the drum but we need more options and the club are trying really hard to do that.

“I think the club are trying really hard. We are putting bids in. To find strikers worldwide is really difficult, as huge clubs in the Premier League are finding. Hopefully there will be some more attacking options in the squad in the next week or two, then they’ll have to settle in.”

So it’s 10 changes following Sunday’s defeat against Ipswich.

Dan Neil is the only player who keeps his place, while goalkeeper Nathan Bishop and Nectarios Triantis are set to make their competitive Sunderland debuts.

Bradley Dack is on the bench and could make his first Black Cats appearance.

Chris Rigg will make his first senior start for the club after coming off the bench in the FA Cup last season.

Lynden Gooch isn’t in the squad after picking up a knock. We’ll find out more from Mowbray on that after the match.

Crewe have made five changes following their 2-2 draw against Mansfield on Saturday.