Sebastian Larsson will make his first Premier League start of the season for Sunderland during their Premier League clash with relegation rivals Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium this afternoon.
The midfielder, who has struggled with injury during the first half of the campaign, comes in for Duncan Watmore, who has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a cruciate ligament injury.
It is the only change made by David Moyes to his resurgent Sunderland side, although there is a return on the bench for Fabio Borini against his former club, with the Italian last featuring in August due to a thigh injury.
Jason Denayer and Steven Pienaar have overcome illness and concussion respectively to retain their place in the starting lineup, while Jermain Defoe, who scored a hat-trick in the corresponding fixture last season, leads the line once again.
Swansea, meanwhile, make five changes to the side that was thrashed 5-0 by Tottenham Hotspur last time out as Bob Bradley looks to ease the growing pressure on his shoulders.
Angel Rangel, Alfie Mawson, Leon Britton, Wayne Routledge and Fernando Llorente - the latter of whom came off the bench to score twice in a dramatic 5-4 win the last time Swansea were at the Liberty Stadium - all come into the starting XI today.
Kyle Naughton, Mike van der Hoorn, Jack Cork, Leroy Fer and Jefferson Montero all drop to the bench, while there is a positional change for Gylfi Sigurdsson as he drops deeper.
Swansea City: Fabianski; Rangel, Mawson, Amat, Taylor; Fulton, Sigurdsson, Britton; Barrow, Routledge, Llorente
Subs: Nordfeldt, Naughton, Van der Hoorn, Cork, Fer, Montero, McBurnie
Sunderland: Pickford; Jones, Kone, Djilobodji, Van Aanholt; Pienaar, Ndong, Denayer; Larsson, Anichebe, Defoe
Subs: Mannone, O'Shea, Januzaj, Manquillo, Khazri, Kirchhoff, Borini
