Sunderland: Bennette endured a WC nightmare

Sunderland followers could have been eager to see how Jewison Bennette received on in his World Cup debut on Wednesday however the teenager’s dream shortly was a nightmare.

The 18-year-old winger began for Costa Rica of their Group E opener in opposition to Spain however he may do nothing to stop Luis Enrique’s facet from working out as emphatic 7-0 winners.

With additional video games to return in opposition to Germany and Japan, issues are unlikely to get any simpler for {the teenager}, and any hopes of inflicting an upset and incomes development to the knockout levels are absolutely over.

Whereas this may very well be an excellent factor from Sunderland’s perspective, because it signifies that Bennette will most likely be again in England in loads of time for when the Championship resumes subsequent month, it can’t be good for the teenager’s confidence to be on the tip of such an embarrassing defeat.

Sadly for the summer season signing, he merely didn’t become involved within the sport in any respect, as Spain dominated from begin to end.

Was Bennette poor in opposition to Spain?

As per SofaScore, Bennette would earn a poor 6.2/10 score for his efficiency, registering simply 14 touches of the ball and finishing solely two passes, regardless of being on the pitch for greater than an hour.

For context, Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas would register 29 touches and full 13 passes in the course of the sport, which emphasises simply how little affect Bennette would have.

Whereas it will be tough to count on a young person to step up because the Central American facet’s greatest participant, particularly in opposition to such sturdy opposition, he actually didn’t repay Luis Fernando Suárez’s religion in him at hand him a begin on Wednesday.

When Bennette arrived on the Stadium of Mild in the course of the summer season, former supervisor Alex Neil dubbed him a “huge talent“, though he’s yet to start for the membership within the Championship even when he did rating a memorable equaliser in opposition to Watford.

Hopefully he nonetheless has a brilliant future with the Black Cats, however this World Cup defeat and efficiency are unlikely to have achieved his confidence any good, nor his probabilities of being handed that elusive first outing from the off at Sunderland.

Certainly, he ruined his huge probability to impress on the best stage of all.