Overview
- Kick-off is 19:30 GMT at the Gtech Community Stadium, with live coverage in the UK on Sky Sports Tennis.
- Both sides have 30 points, with Brentford seventh on goal difference ahead of eighth-placed Sunderland.
- Brentford have won six of their 10 home league matches and come in off a 4-2 win at Everton featuring an Igor Thiago hat-trick.
- Sunderland are unbeaten in five with four straight draws against elite opposition, but six first-team players are away at the Africa Cup of Nations.
- Brentford remain without Fabio Carvalho, Josh Dasilva and Antoni Milambo plus AFCON duo Frank Onyeka and Dango Ouattara, while Mathias Jensen is expected to return, and bookmakers price the Bees around 4/5 to win.