Tony Mowbray was happy with his team's performance against a very strong Leicester side, and believes that on another day Sunderland could have easily come away with at least a point...
UNFORTUNATE TO LOSE
“They give everything every game. There’s always two teams playing. I think we played against a team who are running away with the league, that’s twelve wins out of 13 games for them now. I think we gave them more than a good game and are really disappointed we didn’t score a goal tonight with the chances we had. We have to accept that Patto’s going to make a save or two because we’re playing against a top quality team, but generally on the balance of it I thought we were in the ascendancy a lot of the time. They isolated bits where they could get through us because they’ve got real high quality at the high end of the pitch who have played lots of Premier League games between them. We have to accept that they’ll create the odd chance. But the overall balance of the game, I thought we were on top for most of the time and looked the most threatening team.”
NEED TO SCORE
“You can’t win a game if you don’t score a goal, which is what happened tonight really. We had enough opportunities to score a few goals tonight. I mean, really good chances not half chances and we didn’t take them.”
GOOD PERFORMANCE
“I thought they were brilliant tonight. This is one of our best performances, up there with any of them. Even comparable to beating Southampton 5-0, I think the energy, effort, quality and desire were all there apart from the last little bit in the box. We have to accept that and move on. Nobody can tell me it wasn’t a really good performance and yet we will somewhere down the line get hit with the stats that we’ve lost three on the bounce. That’s okay because I do think it’s a bigger project than winning the odd game here and there. Over the 46 games we’re going to win a lot of games if we play that well."
FANS
"Let’s just look forward to the challenge of it every week and the supporters I know will stick with this young team. As long as they see the effort and fight and being courageous, they’ll stick with us.”
