GUSTAVO POYET will not be dropping Vito Mannone for Saturday's game with Arsenal despite the Sunderland goalkeeper committing a series of errors during last weekend's 8-0 humiliation at Southampton.

Mannone was at fault for a number of the goals at St Mary's, and with former Manchester City shot-stopper Costel Pantilimon waiting in the wings following his summer move from the Etihad, Poyet could easily have opted to change his goalkeeper for the visit of the Gunners.

However, while the Uruguayan is expected to made a handful of changes to the side that slumped to the equal-heaviest defeat in Sunderland's history, Mannone will keep his place after an otherwise solid start to the season.

Poyet said: "Normally, I don't change the keeper when they have a bad game. If it's two bad games then he starts to have a problem, but at the moment there's no decision to make."

There are likely to be changes in the back four, and with Billy Jones still unavailable, new signing Anthony Reveillere could go straight into the starting XI at right-back if his international clearance comes through in time.

Reveillere signed until the end of the season as a free agent earlier today, having been released from Italian side Napoli over the summer, and the 34-year-old has impressed while training with Sunderland's first-team squad over the last two weeks.

Poyet said: "He's been out for three or four months so we had to see how he's feeling, not just physically but in terms of if he's still a football player.

"It's difficult to maintain yourself at his age when you're not playing, but he looks good and when we did all the physical tests he was just about as good as anyone in the squad.

"We'll wait for the clearance to see whether he's involved. He's going to be in the squad that's for sure if we get clearance because we're short of defenders. He'll be involved - whether he starts or not is another matter."

Poyet held a detailed debrief into last weekend's record-equalling defeat on Tuesday morning, and forced his players to watch a succession of clips detailing where they went wrong as things unravelled at St Mary's.

He said: "We met on Tuesday. It was a unique and expected meeting. I'm not a great fan of looking at so many negatives but it was clear we had to do it. After training we tried to think about Arsenal and it wasn't easy.

"It was very quiet, as quiet as I remember. It wasn't easy for anyone at the club, especially the players because they were on the pitch. I felt so embarrassed and I was on the side of the pitch so I can only imagine how they felt. I never experienced that as a player.

"There were so many 6-0 in midweek so now it looks normal - but I'm afraid it's not."