Blackburn Can Be Sunderland's Season Revival

Sunderland are currently sitting a very disappointing 19th, but a win against stricken Blackburn could see them surge up the table and revive their season and avoid relegation.

With a team with the likes of Kenwyne Jones, Dibril Cisse, Craig Gordon, Kieran Richardson and many more talent players you would expected Sunderland to be contesting for the fifth and sixth place, plus with a manager like Roy Keane its hard to think how their season looks in the bin at such an early stage.

Their form guide is disappointing: L-W-L-D-W-L-D-D-W-L-L-L. There are a few starts, but they lack consistency and have a drawing problem but with Kenwyne Jones and Dibril Cisse finding form and both being exceptionally talented strikers they have the ability to make Sunderland incredibly dominant upfront.

Both strikers are tall and very quick plus they are both blessed with superb balance and a threatening shot, they will need to bring their best performances against Blackburn with their solid defence of Christian Samba and Ryan Nelsen.

The Sunderland midfield is usually solid, strong and reliable with the likes of Steed Malbranque, Kieran Richardson, Teemu Taino and Dean Whitehair all putting up good performances. Kieran Richardson has found him self in fine form and I feel he could be the key to the Sunderland revival.

The midfield will need to be steady and put good balls, crosses and chips through to Jones and Cisse.

The defence has been the problem for Sunderland; they lack sufficient communication and concentration, they must make sure against Blackburn that they do not get lapses in concentration and keep Roque Santa Cruz and Jason Roberts quite and uninvolved.

A win to Sunderland will enlighten the team with the confidence they need and it will lift pressure of Roy Keane but it wont be easy. Blackburn will be extremely eager to snatch this victory in front of a home crowd.

Blackburn are yet to win a premier league game since September and having just snared a win in the Carling cup against Tottenham four days ago they will be full of confidence.

A tough challenge for Sunderland but its just the thing they need to revive their season.