TERRIERS RATINGS

Sunderland completed their annual tradition of losing to a lower division team at home in the League Cup, this time being dumped out by League One Huddersfield Town. It was a frustrating first half, and we went in deservedly 1-0 down, but after the team-talk we came out firing and managed to score after a few close calls. It was nice to see Marc Guiu get on the scoresheet so early in his time on Wearside, it’ll hopefully bode well for the league fixtures to come. There’s always the FA Cup…

ANTHONY PATTERSON: 6/10

His distribution was fine but he didn't really have anything to do. Nearly made an absolute howler of an error close to the end.

NIALL HUGGINS: 4.5/10

Struggled today, particularly with latching onto long balls and when it got physical.

NORDI MUKIELE: 6/10

He should have scored from a corner in the second half, but did fine defensively. Hard to judge him on this one I’d say, we weren’t that busy at the back.

ARTHUR MASUAKU: 7.5/10

He’s got a talent at pinging long balls halfway across the pitch to the winger, which will come in handy when we are forced to play more counter attacking football against the better teams in the Premier League. Got himself booked pointlessly but really positive signs from him.

HARRISON JONES: 5.5/10

Not a left back. Considering that, he did alright with his defensive work. Couldn’t cross a ball to save his life though.

CHRIS RIGG: 5/10

Didn’t fare too well, he’s not going to though against a physical League One team. Kept trying to win headers, never going to work really.

DAN NEIL: 5/10

Lots of frustrating moments from him tonight, one or two bits of quality.

ENZO LE FEE: 6/10

Almost caught the goalkeeper out at one point, played fine for the most part. One or two dodgy moments, for instance stopping and breaking our attack down late on and then that resulted in us being under the cosh.

PATRICK ROBERTS: 5.5/10

His usual, frustrating, self. One or two moments where he put a good ball in and no one was there, one or two moments where you just think ‘what on Earth was he thinking?’.

MARC GUIU: 7/10

Could have scored more, some of his off the ball work was good, got himself into some good positions and the balls to him were just bad. Could have done better a few times, I’ll chalk that up to lack of match sharpness. Should do alright for us now the first goal is out of the way.

WILSON ISIDOR: 6/10

Didn’t do too well in the first half, was dangerous down the wing in the second. Looked to be our main goal threat for a while.

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JENSON JONES: 6.5/10

Did canny, almost scored a couple of times. Definitely offered more than Huggins did.

JENSON SEELT: 6/10

Had little to do, took his penalty well in the shootout though.

MILAN ALEKSIC: 7/10

Got the assist for our goal. I thought it was a mistake taking Isidor off for him, I guess that’s why I’m not a coach. Missed the decisive penalty, that’ll happen sometimes, not sure how you can put it off target though… A decent loan spell will serve him well I feel, he always does well in these cup matches.