Sam Allardyce has named an unchanged Sunderland XI for tonight's match against Everton as the Black Cats try to secure their Premier League safety.
Centre-back Lamine Kone has passed a fitness test as Allardyce unsurprisingly goes with the same side that fought back to beat Chelsea 3-2 on Saturday.
It is the seventh game in a row where Allardyce has named the same XI, and victory for the home side tonight would see them move four points clear of Newcastle United and relegate their North-East rivals as well as 19th-placed Norwich City.
Visitors Everton, meanwhile, show three changes from Saturday evening's 3-1 defeat at champions Leicester City.
Ramiro Funes Mori returns from a three-match ban to take Bryan Oviedo's place in the backline, while further forward Gareth Barry and Kevin Mirallas are preferred to Aaron Lennon and Oumar Niasse.
Sunderland: Mannone; Yedlin, Kaboul, Kone, Van Aanholt; Kirchhoff, Cattermole, M'Vila; Borini, Khazri; Defoe
Subs: Pickford, Jones, Larsson, Rodwell, N'Doye, O'Shea, Watmore
Everton: Robles; Pennington, Stones Funes-Mori, Baines; McCarthy, Barry; Mirallas, Barkley, Cleverley; Lukaku
Subs: Howard, Gibson, Oviedo, Lennon, Niasse, Besic, Osman
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Pascal Lemesre
