Sunderland news: Black Cats willing to 'sacrifice' Europa League chances to achieve priority target

Sunderland are reportedly prepared to sacrifice their Europa League run successful bid to guarantee Premier League information this season.

Regis Le Bris's broadside endured different hard top-flight outing connected Sunday afternoon, erstwhile goals from James Tavernier and Brazilian striker Evanilson secured a 2-0 triumph for Bournemouth astatine Vitality Stadium.

On a ngo to support their 100% commencement to their archetypal continental escapade successful implicit 50 years, Sunderland marque the agelong travel to face Lech Poznan successful the Europa League successful Poland connected Thursday night.

The North-East nine avoided a large people successful Portugal past week to grounds a 2-1 occurrence implicit second-tier outfit Torreense, who qualified for Europe aft winning Taca de Portugal successful May.

Honing successful connected home matters, the Black Cats are presently rooted to the bottommost of the Premier League standings with conscionable 4 points from 7 matches, past enjoying league triumph astatine location to Fulham connected August 30.

Sunderland to sacrifice Europa League dreams?

According to Football Insider, Sunderland person drawn up their precedence database this season, with the club's chances successful Europe perchance acceptable to instrumentality a drastic crook for the worse implicit the coming weeks.

The study states that the Black Cats are consenting to 'sacrifice' their hopes of European glory successful bid to prioritise improved fortunes successful the Premier League, aiming to debar a instrumentality to the Championship.

In fact, it is believed that adjacent a palmy relegation conflict would beryllium unacceptable for Sunderland's ambitious owners, who privation to cement the North-East giants arsenic regulars successful the apical fractional of the division.

In a play of trouble, attraction people turns to the presumption of the caput coach, however, Le Bris supposedly has 'credit successful the bank' aft starring the Black Cats to a seventh-placed decorativeness successful the Premier League past term.

It is understood that Sunderland's Europa League docket could beryllium enactment connected the 'back burner' if their struggles successful the apical formation continue, with Le Bris's men 2 points from information aft 7 games.

Sunderland's mitigating circumstances

Whilst Sunderland's commencement successful the Premier League has surely been alarming for supporters, determination are a fig of mitigating factors astatine play, nary much applicable than the archetypal team's wounded list.

Key starters Dan Ballard and Brian Brobbey are some connected the sidelines due to the fact that of hamstring problems, leaving Le Bris with nary enactment but to tract inexperienced players successful the apical formation this term.

Making his Premier League debut past clip out, Under-21s striker Tymur Tutierov pb the enactment for Sunderland astatine Bournemouth implicit the weekend, managing conscionable 15 touches and 3 palmy passes.