Good evening, everyone, and welcome to LIVE coverage of Middlesbrough versus Sunderland. This is a local derby and, sadly, a good chance for the two teams to get acquainted with Championship-level opposition. Team news up next.

Twitter favourite Mike Dean is the referee this evening.

The two teams are out on the pitch and shaking hands. Middlesbrough of course in red shorts, white shorts and red socks while SUnderland are all in white with a hint of blue.

Some scrappy goals in here!

All of the fans in the stadium are currently applauding the tribute video Ehiogu.

Jermain Defoe hasn't scored in any of his last eight Premier League games, and his goal drought now spans more than 12 hours.

A better omen for the hosts however is that they won the reverse fixture at the Stadium of Light with Stuani, who returns to the line-up tonight, bagging a brace.

Boro have not won a league game in 2017, picking up just six points from 14 matches.

Ehiogu won what was then the Carling Cup with Boro and highlights from that day will form part of a video tribute being shown on the big screen before kick-off, while there will also be a minute's applause and both sets of players are to wear black armbands.

Tonight match is the first at the Riverside since the tragic passing of Ugo Ehiogu, so is sure to be an emotional affair.

Neither of these side is mathematically down yet, but either staying up would probably be the greatest escape in Premier League history. Sunderland are 12 points adrift of safety, albeit with two games in hand, and Boro nine with a lone game in hand.

Today has been a difficult one for Moyes before a ball has even been kicked.

These are the two lowest-scoring teams in the Premier League. Middlesbrough have scored just 23 times in 33 games, while from one game fewer Sunderland have managed only 26 goals.

So the teams in full then. MIDDLESBROUGH: Guzan, Ayala, Gibson, Friend, Clayton, De Roon, Forshaw, Downing, Stuani, Negredo. Subs: Konstantopoulos, Fabio, Bernardo, Fischer, Traore, Bamford, Gestede. /// SUNDERLAND: Pickford, Jones, Denayer, O’Shea, Manquillo, Cattermole, Gibson, Ndong, Khazri, Anichebe, Defoe. Subs: Mannone, Pienaar, Borini, Lescott, Rodwell, Januzaj, Kone.

As for Sunderland, David Moyes names an unchanged team to the one that drew with West Ham in their last game. That means for Boro man Lee Cattermole anchors the midfield.

Middlesbrough make two changes to the side that was spanked by Bournemouth on Saturday with Christian Stuani replacing his suspended compatriot Gaston Ramirez and Adam Forshaw in for Antonio Barragan, meaning they are playing 4-4-2.