Sunderland clinched a place in the Championship play-offs on the final day of the season - but Tony Mowbray came away from Deepdale with fresh injury concerns. The Black Cats beat Preston 3-0 thanks to goals from Amad, Alex Pritchard, and Jack Clarke, and, with Blackburn Rovers winning 4-3 at Millwall, that meant the Wearsiders finished sixth in the table.
They will now play Luton Town in the play-off semi-final, with the first leg at the Stadium of Light on Saturday. But Mowbray now faces an anxious wait to discover whether defenders Dennis Cirkin and Lynden Gooch will be fit to face the Hatters after they were substituted against Preston.
Cirkin went off at half-time with an ankle problem, while Gooch was withdrawn midway through the second period with an unspecified injury. Of the two, Mowbray says Cirkin's injury is the greater concern.
