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Regis Le Bris - post-match interview - Coventry City v Sunderland

ByNeil JohnstonBBC Sport football reporter

Dinamo Zagreb under the lights at the Stadium of Light on Bonfire Night.

These should be exciting times for Sunderland and their fans, who before this season had been starved of European football for more than half a century.

Instead there is a concern the club's Europa League campaign, which includes a trip to AC Milan in December, has become a hindrance after the team's poor domestic start to the season.