Glenn Roeder: "Quite often, the hardest games you have in a season are when you are playing against teams who are fighting for their lives.
Roeder Warns Of Physical Battle
Glenn Roeder: "Quite often, the hardest games you have in a season are when you are playing against teams who are fighting for their lives.
"We are just starting to go into the last period of the season, where you get some unusual results.
"We know it will be very tough, but we are starting to get a few players back from injury, getting some competition for places and the boys are looking forward to the game.
"Scott Parker will be okay. If it had been the last game of the season, Scott would have played on Thursday night. But it was not the last game of the season and we were 3-1 up from the first leg.
"You know how much importance I put on patience, and I could not see any value in asking him to go out there and take a chance of damaging his hamstring when basically it is fully recovered.
"That makes him a certainty for Sunday.
"Shay has been the typical Shay Given. He seems to always run ahead of schedule in terms of recovery, so we are very, very pleased. But we can be absolutely certain that Shay is 100% before we put him back in because we have such a wonderful goalkeeper in Steve Harper."