Sunderland boss, Dick Advocaat is confident that his troops will ensure the club stays in the English top flight when they take on Arsenal this evening.
The 67-year-old Dutchman will send his team into battle at Arsenal this evening needing a maximum of one point from the 90 minutes at the Emirates Stadium and Sunday’s final-day trip to champions Chelsea to end their fears of the drop.
He said: “For this club it is crucial to stay up, so everybody knows what they have to do for the next couple of years. This is a great club, a great stadium, the facilities here are brilliant, so everything is there to play on a different level to what they have done in the last five years.”
Asked he was nervous, he replied: “No, excited, very excited. But it’s better for all of us, the sooner the better we get that point.
“It’s good for the club, for everybody at the club, because then they know what they have to do, because there’s a lot that has to be done here to do better, let’s say it that way.”
Sunderland will be safe regardless of what they do against the Gunners and the newly-crowned champions if Hull fail to beat Manchester United on Sunday.
But Advocaat is keen to take any anxiety out of the weekend by completing the job in the capital on a night when a draw would be good enough for the Gunners to effectively prevent United from snatching third place from their grasp, although not to give them a chance of reining in Manchester City in second.
He said: “We will give them a very difficult time, I have no doubts about that, but we have to give everything.
“But in my opinion, one point is enough for them as well and in one week they play for the FA Cup, so we will see what happens tomorrow.”
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