Emmanuel Eboue is ready to play in any position for Arsenal as manager Arsene Wenger takes a patched-up side to the Stadium of Light.

The Gunners lost Robin van Persie and Kieran Gibbs during the international break to leave Wenger without seven players from his first-team squad.

Eboue has played at right-back and as one of Arsenal's three forwards this season, enhancing his reputation as a utility player.

Wenger will have to shuffle the pack again tomorrow, with Mikael Silvestre and Eduardo likely to come in but Eboue is comfortable regardless of where he plays.

"Honestly, for me it doesn't matter where I am on the pitch. I try to give 100 per cent regardless of position and wish to show the fans that I am ready to give them my best form," said the 28-year-old.

"I have to thank Jean-Marc Guillou, whose academy back in the Ivory Coast I came through as a youngster, for that because he used to ask us to play all over the pitch.

"It means that wherever I am played, it is no problem. It's just very nice to have the chance to give my best for Arsenal.

"We have a lot of youngsters, so a player like me has to be ready at all times to use his experience and set an example."

Silvestre warned his team-mates to prepare for a white-hot atmosphere at eighth-placed Sunderland, who are without a win since beating Liverpool on 17 October.

He said: "The atmosphere is going to be really hot and hard for us so we have to make sure we don't concede a goal, control the game and we will find a way to score."

Brazilian midfielder Denilson will travel to Sunderland after recovering from a stress fracture in his back.