It’s the one we’ve been waiting for! Sunderland head into the final day of the season, still able to play some part in this season’s title race. Okay, you can wake up now... of course, we can’t win it, but we can have a hand in who does, as United visit the SOL hoping to capitalise on any slip-ups that City may make.

With Ji Dong Won having had a run out in last weekend’s loss at Fulham, Martin O’Neill could drop the South Korean... however, with Connor Wickham on a pretty lengthy injury list, the choices are likely to see Stephane Sessegnon partnering with Ji or Nicklas Bendtner, on what would be the Dane’s final game before going back to Arsenal following the completion of his loan.

Wayne Bridge and Sotiros Kyrgiakos will also make their final appearances for Sunderland if selected, before going back to Manchester City and Wolfsburg respectively... and I bet Wayne would be welcomed back with open arms if he somehow denied his parent club the title!

Seb Larsson, Kieran Richardson, Wes Brown, Connor Wickham and Marcos Angeleri all miss out, so it’s more or less “as you were” in terms of who Martin O’Neill has available to close out the season.

Sunderland (squad): Mignolet, Gordon, Westwood, O’Shea, Kyrgiakos, Bardsley, Cattermole, Colback, Bendtner, Gardner, Turner, Vaughan, Elmohamady, Bridge, Sessegnon, McClean, Meyler, Kilgallon, Campbell, Ji.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s only hopes of winning the Premier League this season rest on either bettering City’s result against QPR... or really battering us.

United have a very real chance of ending the season without any silverware, having failed in the Champion’s League, the Europa League, and both the FA and League cups. However, their cause isn’t likely to be helped by a monster injury list that has Nemanja Vidic ruled out with a knee injury, and a further eight players rated doubtful at best!

Chris Smalling (groin), Rio Ferdinand (groin), Danny Welbeck (ankle), Jonny Evans (ankle), Paul Pogba (ankle), Anderson (hamstring), Darren Fletcher (illness) and Michael Owen (thigh) are touch and go for the game which United need to win to have any hope of holding the Premier League title.

Manchester United (from): de Gea, Evra, Ferdinand, Owen, Anderson, Berbatov, Rooney, Giggs, Scholes, Smalling, Park, Hernandez, Carrick, Young, Cleverley, Valencia, Lindegaard, de Laet, Amos, Nani.

PREVIOUSLY AT THE SOL
Sunderland 0 Manchester United 0 (October 2010); Sunderland 0 Manchester United 1 (May 2010); Sunderland 1 (Jones) Manchester United 2 (April 2009); Sunderland 0 Manchester United 4 (December 2007)

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