Tony Mowbray praised his side's gritty defending after yesterday's 0-0 draw at Turf Moor, which saw Sunderland become the first team this season to stop Burnley scoring at home.
TEAM SELECTION
“Amad arrived at the hotel at 7pm on Thursday night. He came straight from Manchester when his flight got in. He hasn’t trained with anybody all week, so we had no idea what his physical condition is. We would obviously want to start with Amad, but we couldn’t. It would have been the wrong thing to do. Trai is the only player who was away with internationals who played, and that was because he hadn’t had any minutes for Northern Ireland. He came back and was pretty fresh. Obviously, Dan Ballard’s a big miss to this team, who’s going to be out for a few weeks, and Jewison Bennette has obviously dislocated his shoulder. The other two lads who played two games in southern Spain, in the Marbella area, they played a lot of football, two and a bit games. They’ve both been busy, so they sat on the bench, even though they came back on Thursday. The team picked itself really because none of those lads could play, they’d been away from the club all week."