Régis Le Bris is facing one of his toughest selections of the campaign as Sunderland welcome Burnley to the Stadium of Light on Monday night.
With Granit Xhaka still absent and off the back of a disappointing defeat to West Ham United, the Sunderland head coach has some major decisions to make as the Black Cats look to get straight back to winning ways. Here’s how we think the starting XI and bench might look...

13. Sub - Chris Rigg
Rigg will hope an excellent cameo off the bench at Everton last week will be enough to earn him more minutes in this game and perhaps even put him in contention to return to the XI off the right flank | AFP via Getty Images

14. Sub - Habib Diarra
Made a big impact from the bench against Everton which should serve as a very timely confidence boost for this game. | Ian MacNicol/Getty Images Photo: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

15. Sub - Wilson Isidor
Showed his quality with a terrific cameo against Everton and will almost certainly be used as an impact substitute again here. | Getty Images

16. Sub - Eliezer Mayenda
Will hope for a chance to impress from the bench with Brobbey firmly established as first choice striker for the time being. | Chris Fryatt


