The teams are in and Roberto Mancini has chosen to rest some key players for todays game, no doubt with an eye on the home fixture against Liverpool in forty-eight hours time:
#SAFC: Mignolet. Gardner, Colback, Brown, O'Shea, Larsson, McClean, Cattermole (C), Vaughan, Sessegnon, Bendtner.
— Sunderland AFC (@SAFCofficial) January 1, 2012
#MCFC team to play Sunderland: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov, De Jong, Barry, Yaya, A. Johnson, Nasri, Dzeko
— Manchester City FC (@MCFC) January 1, 2012
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