TWO summer signings will start for the first time for Sunderland tonight, with Tony Mowbray making three changes for the game against Huddersfield Town.

Adil Aouchiche and Eliezer Mayenda both come into the starting XI on the back of promising cameos from the bench, with Pierre Ekwah and Nazariy Rusyn dropping out.

Jenson Seelt replaces Niall Huggins at right-back in the other change after the weekend defeat at Plymouth, with Mason Burstow fit enough to be back on the bench. There's no Chris Rigg in the squad after the teenager returned to training this week following his participation in the World Cup with England's Under-17s.

Tony Mowbray, who missed media duties on Tuesday due to a chest infection, is well enough to be in the dugout.

Sunderland: Patterson, Seelt, Ballard, O'Nien, Hume; Neil, Jobe, Roberts, Aouchiche, Clarke, Mayenda

Substitutes: Bishop, Dack, Ba, Hemir, Triantis, Huggins, Pritchard, Ekwah, Burstow

Huddersfield Town: Maxwell; Pearson, Helik, Lees; Jackson, Kasumu, Hogg, Headley; Thomas, Burgzorg,  Koroma.

Substitutes: Chapman, Ayina, Edwards, Nakayama,  Austerfield, Diarra, Edmonds-Green, Iorpenda, Ward.