Simms let Sunderland down v Middlesbrough

Tony Mowbray suffered his first defeat as Sunderland supervisor because the Black Cats misplaced out 1-0 to Middlesbrough on the Riverside Stadium of their Championship conflict on Monday night time.

Riley McGree’s first-half purpose was sufficient for Chris Wilder’s aspect to earn all three factors within the first Tees-Put on derby since 2018, with Sunderland not often threatening within the absence of Ross Stewart, who was injured within the warm-up.

One man who disenchanted within the defeat was on-loan Everton striker Ellis Simms. As per SofaScore, the 21-year-old earned a poor 6.4/10 score for his show, which was the joint-second worst of any participant from each groups to function within the match.

After forming a powerful partnership with Stewart, it was maybe all the time going to be robust for the teen to guide the road on his personal, and he struggled to have any actual impression on the sport on the Riverside.

Throughout the 90 minutes, he had simply 34 touches of the ball, one fewer than goalkeeper Anthony Patterson. He additionally failed with all 4 of his dribble makes an attempt, which emphasises that the Middlesbrough defenders had the higher of him on the night time.

Simms completes simply 12 of his 31 tried passes, leading to a stunning 57% cross accuracy, which is worse than his 64.7% average throughout the season up to now.

Was Simms poor vs Middlesbrough?

He additionally managed only one shot within the match and none on track, which once more was a major lower on his season average of two.6 pictures per recreation, which illustrates that he was less than his common requirements on Monday night time.

Simms additionally misplaced possession 17 instances and gained simply two out of his 16 duels, which matches to point out how a lot he struggled on the Riverside, as Middlesbrough’s centre-backs largely obtained the higher of their duels.

Journalist Josh Bunting didn’t maintain again together with his criticism of Simms after the match, tweeting: “Simms has been terrible as nicely simply making it too straightforward for Middlesbrough to defend in opposition to.”

On an evening the place Mowbray actually wanted Simms to step up within the absence of Stewart, the Everton loanee actually let his supervisor down.