Sunderland v Wycombe: League One playoff final – live!

Both managers have full squads to choose from, their players all fighting fit and free from suspension. Despite not having played since November, Sunderland winger Aiden McGeady is reported to be available and looks likely to start on the bench. The main question surrounding Alex Neil’s selection is whether he’ll go for three or four at the back.

Wycombe manager Garteth Ainsworth is similarly tactifully flexible and while his team is expected to line up with four at the back, he could spring a surprise. Cult hero Adebayo Akinfenwa plays his final game as a professional after over two decades in football today and could scarcely ask for a more fitting swansong.

Now 40 years of age, the heavyweight striker will be among the Wycombe substitutes but is almost certain to feature as an impact sub, in every sense of the expression, at some stage.

“He’s not going to start and he probably knows that,” said Ainsworth during the week. “But I wouldn’t like to be the gaffer who didn’t put him on for his last game, at the home of football.

“I’m sure the football gods are looking down, thinking ‘there’s one more moment’. There’s a story to be written there. If Bayo can seal the deal then what a way to go out. But he’ll say that even if he doesn’t, what a way to go out.”

© Provided by The Guardian Adebayo Akinfenwa is due to play in the final match of his career for Wycombe Wanderers this afternoon. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian