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Sunderland confirm interim coaching team will be in charge again at Cheltenham

Interim bosses Mike Dodds and Michael Proctor will again be in charge when Sunderland visit Cheltenham tomorrow night - with no new head coach in place ahead of the trip to Whaddon Road.

The Black Cats' search for a successor to Lee Johnson continues, and in the meantime the club has confirmed that U23 coaches Dodds and Proctor will take the team for a second time following the weekend defeat at home to Doncaster Rovers.

With no permanent head coach in place, there was no pre-match media preview today.

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But the club's official website said that there were no new injuries following the weekend game.

Sunderland head to Gloucestershire on the back of a run that has seen them win just one of their six games since the turn of the year, and having lost 6-0 at Bolton 10 days ago followed by defeat against bottom-of-the-table Doncaster.

It will be the club's first visit to Whaddon Road, with their only two previous meetings with Cheltenham coming at the Stadium of Light - Sunderland winning 5-0 in the league earlier this season, and also winning 1-0 in the League Cup back in 2005.

Despite Sunderland's woeful recent run, Cheltenham boss Michael Duff says the Black Cats have quality players and he is wary of a repeat of that result on Wearside back in September.

"They've just lost back-to-back and they're still fourth in the league which shows you what a strong position they are in," he told Cheltenham's official website.

"We know what they're all about.

"They beat us 5-0 earlier in the season.

"There is a little bit of upheaval in terms of losing the manager.

"We can't worry too much about Sunderland.

"We know they're a really good team, we know they've got some very good players and we know about the size of the club as well.

"The league table tells you they are a good team and their result against us earlier in the season tells you they're a good team.

"The table tells its own story.

"We've got to try and implement what we do on them and be better than we were against them earlier in the season."

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