Harry Kane has yet to score for Tottenham this season
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Venue: Stadium of Light Date: Sunday, 13 September |
TEAM NEWS
Fabio Borini is expected to be involved for Sunderland after rejoining the club from Liverpool.
Adam Johnson and Jordi Gomez are back in training but neither are match fit, while loanee DeAndre Yedlin is ineligible to face his parent club.
New signing Son Heung-min could make his Spurs debut.
Midfielder Christian Eriksen will remain sidelined because of a knee injury, and Moussa Dembele is also out with a foot problem.
MOTD COMMENTATOR’S NOTES
Guy Mowbray: "Exactly one year on from the same fixture last season, this feels like a meeting of quite some significance.
"If Sunderland don't get their first win soon we'll all be writing them off, and it's imperative that the slight improvement shown at Aston Villa two weeks ago is built upon.
"There will surely be starts for 'new' boys Fabio Borini and Ola Toivonen.
"Spurs – also winless – will be targeting this one big time with tough tasks against Crystal Palace and Manchester City coming next. They, too, looked a gear up last time out, with 20 shots on Everton's goal in their 0-0 draw.
"Chances will come again here, but this time MUST be taken."
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WHAT THE MANAGERS SAY
Sunderland head coach Dick Advocaat: "Spurs are a very good side with some very good individuals. They only have two points, not enough for them, same for us. If we let them play we have no chance."
Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino on new signing Son Heung-min: "Son scored three goals in his game for the national team and arrived on Monday and trained very well all week.
"When Son started to play in Germany for Hamburg, he played as a number nine, as a striker. After, when Leverkusen signed him, he started to play as number seven and number 11 or he can play number 10. But he is a striker that played wider at Leverkusen."
LAWRO’S PREDICTION
Both sides have signed strikers since their last league game, and it will be interesting to see whether either of them have an effect.
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MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- Tottenham are undefeated in their last 10 league games against Sunderland (W7, D3).
- Sunderland's last win over Spurs came in April 2010 – prevailing 3-1 at the Stadium of Light.
Sunderland
- Sunderland have conceded a league-high 10 goals this season.
- However, the Black Cats have scored twice as many league goals as opponents Tottenham: six to Spurs' three.
- Sunderland have gone seven league matches without a win (D4, L3).
- They have failed to win any of their opening four matches in each of the last four Premier League seasons.
- They have drawn more Premier League games in 2015 than any other side (8).
- Jeremain Lens has two assists and one goal in four Premier League appearances.
Tottenham
- Spurs have failed to win any of their opening four games of a Premier League season for the first time since 2008-09.
- Their tally of three goals scored is the second lowest in the Premier League this season.
- Harry Kane has scored two goals from 28 shots in his last 12 Premier League appearances. In his previous 12 league games, he scored 14 goals from 33 shots.
- Kane has failed to score with any of his 13 shots this season (including blocked efforts).
- His goal for England against San Marino was his first since 24 May – a run of eight games (including four England Under-21 matches).
- Kane scored an own goal in the corresponding fixture last season, when the sides drew 2-2 at the Stadium of Light.