Intro:

Sunderland entertain Arsenal in the English Premier League on Saturday (October 25) - 'a good game to play' according to 'Black Cats' boss Gus Poyet, after their 8-0 thrashing at Southampton last weekend.

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SOUNDBITE (English): Gus Poyet, Sunderland manager

"I want to go back to basics. Nothing else. I want to see the team performing in a certain way, defending in a certain way, being in the game, being difficult to beat, taking advantage of the opposition's weaknesses. You know, things that we were not doing normally (in the 8-0 defeat at Southampton). You know, this has been a difficult week to analyse the squad. Sometimes, you know, you are in a position where it is easy to say 'we are missing this or we are missing that.' But this is not the right week to analyse that because there were so many things wrong that normally you will try to cover too many difficulties or positions. This week I thing the idea was analyse the last game, especially to really focus on Arsenal, sorry. It is a difficult game. It has been a few years in the league that we did not beat them at home. It is a great opportunity. I think it is a good game to play after a heavy defeat."

SOUNDBITE (English): Gus Poyet, Sunderland manager

"I trust the players so I would like to think it was a really bad at work and that it is not going to happen again. And if I was one of the players, I would make sure that it doesn't happen again. Now we are all different, I mean it is impossible to compare every single player's character or reactions. So we need to wait and see, wait and see (how the players react on Saturday)."