Sunderland V Swansea - view commentary, squad, and statistics of the game live.Poyet - No pressure on playersGus Poyet has warned his players not to allow the wait for a Barclays Premier League win to get to them as they attempt to end their barren run against high-flying Swansea.The 46-year-old head coach joked last weekend that he would kill himself if his side did not win one of its next two league games after watching them draw for the fourth time in five outings at Burnley.However, while the Black Cats are desperate to start the ball rolling this weekend, Poyet has insisted it would not be a disaster if they did not as he is confident progress is being made.He said: "I would like to think that we are heading in a good directionWe are okay, the players are quite happy."They know their role in the team, there is good competition, we have got options, so we don't want to go into this game already thinking, 'If we don't win tomorrow, it's a nightmare'."It shouldn't be like that - I don't want it to be like that
Yes, we play the game to win, but it's going to be the same the week after."It's not as if you win two games and then you can lose the next one
That's not the mentality that we want."Only promoted QPR to date have denied Sunderland some reward for their efforts in the league with West Brom, Manchester United, Tottenham and Burnley all having emerged with a point to show for their respective efforts.However, all four of those sides currently sit below Saturday's opposition at the Stadium of Light, and Poyet insists that has come as no surprise.He said: "It's not, because it's a club that if you take away the top six, seven from the rest of the teams in the league, it's the one that's got a little but of an advantage on the rest of the teams."Why? Because they have been playing this system for many, many years from Roberto Martinez's time there, because they buy players to play that way, because they don't change, because they stick by it, because they know how to play the game."That's something that in football helps because it makes you better than the opposition, especially when the opposition needs to restart every year and search for players and wait."That's why we ask for time as managers, because if you have got that system in the club when you arrive and you are able to buy players to play that way, you have got a big plus."From the bottom 13 or 14, they are the team that has got something different to the rest."Poyet will make late decisions on a trio of key players
Defender Wes Brown and striker Steven Fletcher both missed Tuesday night's Capital One Cup defeat by Stoke with calf problems, while midfielder Emanuele Giaccherini sat out with an ankle injury, and all three are being assessed.But Poyet has indicated he will make changes with full-back Billy Jones and winger Will Buckley confirmed as starters.Swansea manager Garry Monk insists striker Wilfried Bony has not get a temperament problem ahead of his return at Sunderland.Bony served a one-match suspension in the Capital One Cup in midweek after being sent off against Southampton in the Premier League last weekend for receiving two yellow cards.The Ivory Coast striker felled Maya Yoshida with a crude challenge after appearing to growl at the Saints defender and was then guilty of a scissors tackle from behind on the same player close to half-time.The end result was Bony's first red card in English football, but Monk says that he doesn't expect the 25-year-old to find himself in further trouble with referees despite being a physical player."What can sometimes go against Wilf is that he's so powerful and strong he wants to show that strength," Monk said."Sometimes if he feels the other guy has got the better of him he tries a bit more and perhaps overreacts, and in that situation maybe you can do the type of thing he did on Saturday."But he's got a good temperament
He's not someone who will pick up a lot of red cards and I can't remember him being booked."Bony had actually been booked only four times in 53 Swansea appearances before the red mist descended against Southampton and Monk dismissed the Ivorian's growl at Yoshida as the two players converged on a bouncing ball."It's a characteristic, he does it in training some times for effect more than anything," Monk said."It's nothing to talk to him about and I haven't had a big conversation with him about the red ."It was a mistake he held his hands up to straight away and when players do that you don't need telling because you know it."I've seen some players sent off for stupid things and they don't know why, but Wilf knew straight away."Monk has no new injury worries, with defender Jordi Amat (knee) and midfielder Leon Britton (knee) still absent
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