Dodds has reverted to a back four in the absence of the suspended Luke O’Nien, with Trai Hume, Jenson Seelt, Dan Ballard and Leo Hjelde making up the backline.
Dan Neil, Chris Rigg and Jobe Bellingham keep their places in the side but it’s a new look attack, with Abdoullah Ba, Romaine Mundle and Mason Burstow coming into the side. The trio replace O’Nien, Pierre Ekwah and Hemir.
Teenager Harrison Jones is named among the substitutes.
Russell Martin has named an unchanged Southampton team on the back of last week’s victory at Birmingham.
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SUNDERLAND: Patterson, Hume, Seelt, Ballard, Hjelde; Neil, Bellingham, Rigg; Ba, Mundle, Burstow
Subs: Bishop, Pembele, Hemir, Rusyn, Aouchiche, Lavery, Jones, Ekwah, Styles
SOUTHAMPTON: Bazunu, Harwood-Bellis, Stephens, Bednarek, Manning, Downes, Smallbone, S.Armstrong, Brooks, Adams, A.Armstrong
