[MidnightMackemRider]

Roy Keane's men stay at home this Tuesday, as they play host to League 1 side Northamton.

Sunderland-
League-
Played 5 games. 7 pts. 8th place.
Cup-
2-1 victory Nottm Forest

Last 5 games (League and Cup)-WDLWW

Injuries-
Teemu Tainio is not expected to play for Sunderland as he injured his shoulder at the weekend.
Saturday's goal hero Michael Chopra is struggling with a dead leg and left-back George McCartney is cup-tied.

Northampton-
League-7 games. 6 pts. 20th place.
Cup
2-1 Victory Bolton

Last 5 games (League and Cup)-LDDLL
Injuries-
Northampton will be without on-loan striker Karl Hawley as he is cup-tied, so Leon Constantine could feature.
Captain Chris Doig is definitely out as he struggles to return from a groin injury.

[midknight]

lineup:

Fulop; Bardsley, Nosworthy, Ferdinand, Collins; Edwards, Leadbitter, Whitehead, Reid, Murphy; Healy.
Subs: Colgan, Richardson, Miller, Yorke, Chopra, Chimbonda, Stokes.

0-1 at the half

figured it would make more sense to make one ongoing cup thread, but at the rate we're playing this game, we'll be out of the carling cup in 45 minutes.

[midknight]

So said so done. 0-2

[midknight]

hmm 1-2 Stokes 85th but we're down to 10 men cos nyron's off injured

[midknight]

2-2!

Stokes with a double off the bench!

we're going to play the extra time with 10 men though...

[midknight]

a win on penalties 4-3. Nice to see that we have become specialists at bullet dodging.

Will be interesting to see who makes the squad against villa though after such an all around insipid display

Stokes and Reid are probably the only ones who did themselves any favours

[MidnightMackemRider]

i was unable to watch the game, but i must say that from keane's comments, we can only hope for better.