Advocaat: We need six points

Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat has set his players a six-point target to ensure they remain in the Premier League this season.

Sunderland sit just a point above the relegation zone going into Saturday's trip to the Britannia Stadium to face an in-form Stoke side.

The Black Cats' stay in the top flight is at risk with Leicester making a late charge to avoid the drop but Advocaat is remaining positive.

"We know that we have to get results," he told Sunderland's club channel. "We need at least six points in the last six games, then we have a chance to stay up, and we have the feeling that we can do something.

"We have still to learn if and when you go behind, that you can still change a game, and we forgot to do that against Crystal Palace.

"But this is a different game, a new game. We know there are only six games to go, only five weeks. We can show that we want to stay up, and I have the feeling that the players are really up for it.

"So hopefully we can show something on Saturday."