JACK ROSS has made four changes to his Sunderland side for this afternoon's Boxing Day home game with Bradford City.

Two of the alterations come in the back four, with Tom Flanagan and Bryan Oviedo starting in place of Glenn Loovens, who is suspended following his dismissal at Portsmouth, and Reece James, who drops to the bench.

Chris Maguire and Josh Maja also return to the starting side, with a crowd of more than 45,000 due to be present at the Stadium of Light.

George Honeyman and Duncan Watmore make way from the team that started last weekend's game at Fratton Park.

Charlie Wyke returns to the squad for the first time since mid-September, and is named on the bench against the side he left in a £1m summer transfer.


SUNDERLAND (4-3-3): McLaughlin; O'Nien, Flanagan, Baldwin, Oviedo; Gooch, Cattermole, Power; Maguire, Maja, McGeady.

Subs: Ruiter (gk), Ozturk, James, McGeouch, Watmore, Sinclair, Wyke.

BRADFORD (4-1-3-2): O'Donnell; Caddis, McGowan, Knight-Percival, Chicksen; Akpan; O'Brien, Payne, Ball; Doyle, Miller.

Subs: Wilson (gk), O'Brien, O'Connor, Brunker, Wood, Devine, Goldthorp.