Harry Redknapp takes charge of his first game as Queens Park Rangers manager against a struggling Sunderland side at the Stadium of Light.
The former Tottenham boss begins his quest for yet another great escape, knowing he will need a lot more than hard work to get out of the mire that QPR find themselves in, having taken just four points from 13 games, a situation that Redknapp termed "embarassing."
"Four points is embarrassing," Redknapp said. "How can you have four points from 13 games?
"Players who aren't playing will blame those who are playing. Those who are playing will blame somebody else. It's up to me to make my own decisions over what's wrong with them and what needs doing."
Redknapp, who has pulled teams out of the relegation zone before from seemingly impossible situations, said the QPR job would be his biggest challenge.
"We keep saying we have a good team, but you don't have four points from 13 games if you are playing well," Redknapp added.
"Apart from going back to Portsmouth, when it looked like we were doomed, this is my biggest challenge yet as a manager. If I'd failed there I probably wouldn't have been allowed to get out alive. At QPR the challenge is to bring the group together.
"I want to see players chasing and getting the hump if they see other players standing around."
Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill, whose side are in 16th place with just 12 points, has asked his team to play the full 90 minutes with the same intensity.
"It's very much down to what we do," O'Neill said. "I think we have a fair idea of the strengths and weaknesses of teams, and likewise that information is available to them about us.
"It's down to ourselves; we must go and compete, which we have been doing, and get that bit of luck which maybe has deserted us.
"Luck aside, we must go out and play for the full 90 minutes."
O'Neill is sweating on the fitness of John O'Shea and Lee Cattermole, after the duo picked up knocks during the 4-2 defeat to West Brom.
Redknapp will have skipper Park Ji-Sung available, while Jose Bosingwa is also expected to have recovered from the virus that kept him out of the game at the weekend.
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Expected lineups: Sunderland: Mignolet; Bardsley, O'Shea, Cuellar, Rose; Gardner, Colback; Larsson, Sessegnon, Johnson; Fletcher.
QPR: Julio Cesar; Bosingwa, Nelsen, Ferdinand, Traore; Diakite, Faurlin; Mackie, Taarabt, Hoilett; Cisse.
Prediction: 2-1 to QPR
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