Good afternoon on this fine Easter Saturday. Welcome to live coverage of West Ham's trip to the Stadium of Light in order to face Sunderland. Team news is on the way.

In fact I've just dug a bit into the last time Sunderland won against West Ham.

It was over four years ago and there are some cracking names in the line-up.

Titus Bramble, Stephane Sessegnon and James McFadden were all involved.

John O'Shea and Seb Larsson both started that game, the latter actually scored.

As for West Ham they had the likes of Jussi Jaaskelainen, Kevin Nolan, Matt Jarvis and Carlton Cole.

What a time to be alive...

West Ham are actually unbeaten in their last six matches against Sunderland and have won the last two matches 1-0.

Perhaps rather ironically West Ham have actually conceded one goal more than their opponents (57 v 56) but that tells you exactly where the problems lie for both teams.

This has been a really tough run for Sunderland recently and they have currently gone seven matches (or 675 minutes, whichever you'd prefer) without scoring.

It is also now over three months since the Black Cats scored a goal at home in the Premier League.

As for the Hammers they're without suspended captain Mark Noble so the returning Andy Carroll takes the armband. Edimilson Fernandes starts on his 21st birthday.

Randolph; Byram, Collins, Fonte, Masuaku; Kouyate, Fernandes; Snodgrass, Lanzini, Ayew; Carroll.

Right let's start with the home side and this is the Sunderland team for this afternoon.

Seb Larsson misses out through suspension as does Bryan Oviedo who is injured. Wahbi Khazri makes his first start since October with Javi Manquillo coming in. John O'Shea also returns as Lamine Kone drops to the bench.

Pickford; Jones, Denayer, O'Shea, Manquillo; Gibson, Cattermole, Ndong, Khazri; Anichebe, Defoe.