{"id":669785,"date":"2026-05-17T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669785"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:47:56","slug":"everton-vs-sunderland-confirmed-lineups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/17\/everton-vs-sunderland-confirmed-lineups-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton vs Sunderland: Team News and Confirmed Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the predicted lineups ahead of the Everton vs Sunderland game this afternoon. Kickoff 3 pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams go into this penultimate game of the season with a slim chance of qualifying for Europe; however, to keep any dreams of this alive, they must win. Neither team is in the best form, but both will be wanting to finish the season as high in the table as possible<\/p>\n<p>Here is the latest team news and confirmed lineups for The Toffees vs The Black Cats.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/16\/everton-vs-sunderland-predicted-lineups\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton vs Sunderland Predicted Lineups<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Everton vs Sunderland: Team News and Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<h3>Everton Team News<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Out:<\/strong> <span>Idrissa Gueye (knock), Jack Grealish (stress fracture of foot), and Jarrod Braithwaite (hamstring)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During his pre-match press conference, Everton boss David Moyes gave an update on those currently out injured. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.evertonfc.com\/news\/2026\/may\/15\/watch-moyes--press-conference--2-15pm-bst----follow-live-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: &#8220;<span>Idrissa&#8217;s not fit for the game. Jarrad Branthwaite is out as well. He&#8217;s back on the grass, but he&#8217;s just not available for this game. There&#8217;s an outside chance he could make Tottenham, so we&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Sunderland Team News<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available:<\/strong> Bertrand Traore, <span>Nilson Angulo, and Jocelin Ta Bi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Out:<\/strong> Simon Moore (broken hand), Romaine Mundle (hamstring), and Dan Ballard (suspended)<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland&#8217;s head coach, Regis Le Bris, spoke about their first season back in the Premier League and whether he thought his side had overperformed. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwy29xjdx71o\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: <span>&#8220;The expectations at the start, the odds were really low, so it&#8217;s a big achievement, so we are really proud of this achievement. The exposure to problems and big teams helps. The evolution of the players is good too, many of the players had not got Premier League experience. It&#8217;s very positive.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Everton Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Pickford<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>Tarkowski<\/p>\n<p>Keane<\/p>\n<p>Mykolenko<\/p>\n<p>Iroegbunam<\/p>\n<p>Garner<\/p>\n<p>Rohl<\/p>\n<p>Dewsbury-Hall<\/p>\n<p>Ndiaye<\/p>\n<p>Beto<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Travers, Patterson, McNeil, Barry, George, Dibling, Coelman, Alcaraz, Armstrong<\/p>\n<h3>Sunderland Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Roefs<\/p>\n<p>Geertruida<\/p>\n<p>Mukiele<\/p>\n<p>Alderete<\/p>\n<p>Reinildo<\/p>\n<p>Hume<\/p>\n<p>Xhaka<\/p>\n<p>Sadiki<\/p>\n<p>Angulo<\/p>\n<p>Le Fee<\/p>\n<p>Brobbey<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Ellborg, O&#8217;Nien, Cirkin, Diarra, Talbi, Isidor, Mayenda, Rigg, Jocelin<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/03\/greatest-manager-rants\/\" target=\"_self\">Top Five Greatest Manager Rants<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of Imago\/News Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Football brings you the latest team news and the predicted lineups ahead of the Everton vs Sunderland game this afternoon. Kickoff 3 pm GMT. Both teams go into this penultimate game of the season with a slim chance of qualifying for Europe; however, to keep any dreams of this alive, they must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":669786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1828,1830,30,3,1831,1369],"tags":[7915,32685,32221,32767,32656],"class_list":["post-669785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everton","category-fixtures","category-injuries","category-news","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","category-sunderland-league-football","tag-everton-news","tag-everton-team-news","tag-sunderland-confirmed-lineup","tag-sunderland-injury-news","tag-sunderland-team-news"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669792,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669785\/revisions\/669792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}