Prepare for more pain. The beatings will continue until morale improves. After a night when Sunderland collectively expressed a Premier status death wish or – if you prefer – gave a new definition to the notion of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’, we have the customary sets of player ratings. First up is Rob Hutchison, with his quirky one-worders and marks averaging 5 out of 10 for the starting line-up. Keir Bradwell’s wordier condemnation is at https://safc.blog/2015/02/masochism-2-sunderlands-player-ratings-vs-qpr-worse-than-norwich-away/ …
Rob writes: “Remember, it’s Sunderland. It’s never gonna be easy, is it?”
Pantillimon 6 skanked
Rev 5 culpable
O’Shea 5 undone
Vergini 5 sleepy
Van Aanholt 4 exposed
Bridcutt 4 laboured
Larsson 5 fatigued
Gomez 4 weary
Johnson 5 patchy
Defoe 7 unlucky
Wickham 6 adequate
Subs:
Brown 6 enough
Alvarez 7 tricky {again}
Fletcher 5 brief
Honourable mention for Hoops goalie…
Green 10 phenomenal
And how Monsieur Salut saw it, on tour at ESPN (see it in full at http://www.espnfc.com/club/sunderland/366/blog/post/2293203/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-for-gus-poyet-and-sunderland):
It was a collectively wretched performance that offered fans no reason to expect more than yet another desperate battle for survival, scant reward for crowds that dipped below 40,000 for the first time this season, and only because QPR’s travelling support was almost invisible.
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