Adam Johnson: 'Sunderland are quietly confident ahead of new season'

Adam Johnson admits that the Sunderland players are quietly confident ahead of the new season.

By Daniel Cross, Reporter | 07 August 2013

Sunderland winger Adam Johnson has revealed that he and his teammates are confident ahead of the start of the new season.

The Black Cats survived relegation by just one place last season, but the former Manchester City winger believes that they can surprise a few people this season.

"We had an idea towards the end of last season that pre-season was going to be hard under the new manager," Johnson told reporters.

"We knew it was going to be all about getting our fitness levels up because that's going to be a feature of the side he wants us to be.

"I think we're looking fit and strong now. There's a quiet confidence growing in the squad and a much better idea of what is expected of us."

Sunderland begin their new Premier League campaign at home to Fulham.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Leicester City Leicester	45	31	4	10	89	39	50	97
2	Ipswich Town Ipswich	45	27	12	6	90	57	33	93
3	Leeds United Leeds	45	27	9	9	80	41	39	90
4	Southampton	45	25	9	11	85	62	23	84
5	Norwich City Norwich	45	21	10	14	79	63	16	73
6	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	45	20	12	13	67	47	20	72
7	Hull City	45	19	13	13	68	59	9	70
8	Middlesbrough	45	19	9	17	68	61	7	66
9	Coventry City Coventry	45	17	13	15	69	57	12	64
10	Preston North End Preston	45	18	9	18	56	64	-8	63
11	Bristol City	45	17	11	17	53	47	6	62
12	Cardiff City Cardiff	45	19	5	21	51	65	-14	62
13	Swansea City Swansea	45	15	12	18	59	64	-5	57
14	Watford	45	13	17	15	60	58	2	56
15	Sunderland	45	16	8	21	52	52	0	56
16	Millwall	45	15	11	19	44	55	-11	56
17	Queens Park Rangers QPR	45	14	11	20	45	57	-12	53
18	Stoke City Stoke	45	14	11	20	45	60	-15	53
19	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	45	13	11	21	58	74	-16	50
20	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	45	14	8	23	42	68	-26	50
21	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	45	12	12	21	58	70	-12	48
22	Birmingham City Birmingham	45	12	11	22	49	65	-16	47
23	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield	45	9	18	18	48	75	-27	45
R	Rotherham United Rotherham	45	4	12	29	32	87	-55	24