{"id":797836,"date":"2026-03-01T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/797836\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T23:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:05:21","slug":"sunderland-lineup-vs-leeds-predicted-xi-for-premier-league-clash-as-black-cats-without-six-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/797836\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland lineup vs. Leeds: Predicted XI for Premier League clash as Black Cats without six players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/sunderland\/\" title=\"Sunderland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunderland<\/a> boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/regis-le-bris\/\" title=\"Regis Le Bris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regis Le Bris<\/a> should be working with an identical squad for Tuesday&#8217;s Premier League showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/\" title=\"Leeds United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Cats&#8217; winless run in the top flight stretched to four games on Saturday, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/eliezer-mayenda\/\" title=\"Eliezer Mayenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eliezer Mayenda<\/a> struck the opener against Bournemouth before an equalising Evanilson header in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Le Bris at least suffered no fresh fitness concerns in that stalemate, but the visitors remain without\u00a0Dennis Cirkin (thigh), Reinildo Mandava (knee), Romaine Mundle (thigh), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/brian-brobbey\/\" title=\"Brian Brobbey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Brobbey<\/a> (groin), Nordi Mukiele (calf) and Jocelin Ta Bi (ankle) for the trip to Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland&#8217;s full-back options are therefore especially restricted, so Trai Hume will likely be forced to fill in at left-back again, while Lutsharel Geertruida occupies his favoured right-back slot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/daniel-ballard\/\" title=\"Daniel Ballard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Ballard<\/a> and Omar Alderete are defensive stalwarts, as are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/granit-xhaka\/\" title=\"Granit Xhaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Granit Xhaka<\/a>, Noah Sadiki and Habib Diarra &#8211; the latter operating slightly further forward &#8211; in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Le Bris can consider an unenforced change out wide, as the experienced Bertrand Traore and the newly-signed Nilson Angulo are both alternatives to Chemsdine Talbi at right-wing.<\/p>\n<p>However, the latter should be retained in an unchanged attacking quartet also comprising Diarra, Enzo Le Fee and Mayenda, sure to start over Wilson Isidor after his strike on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunderland possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roefs; Geertruida, Ballard, Alderete, Hume; Xhaka, Sadiki; Talbi, Diarra, Le Fee; Mayenda<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/leeds-united\/predicted-lineups\/is-farke-banned-after-red-card-predicted-leeds-xi-vs-sunderland_592992.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&gt; Click here to see how Leeds could line up for this game<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunderland boss Regis Le Bris should be working with an identical squad for Tuesday&#8217;s Premier League showdown with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,4230,393,68644,94,707,2826,4884,1860,22138,7126,101,4151,93,68303,10938,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-797836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-rugby","21":"tag-sport","22":"tag-sports-mole","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-tennis","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116156427528085481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}