Sunderland: Diallo could be Mowbray’s hero

Sunderland suffered their third defeat in four Championship matches as they have been hammered 4-2 by Burnley on the Stadium of Mild on Saturday.

The Black Cats had raced right into a 2-0 lead however capitulated within the second half as Vincent Kompany’s males ran riot to finish up with a snug win on Wearside ultimately.

Patrick Roberts was absent from the matchday squad to face the Clarets and supervisor Tony Mowbray defined his state of affairs after the match.

He informed The Northern Echo: “We don’t suppose it’s a major problem. We’ll see how the week goes, he’s had an enormous workload of late.

“He most likely hasn’t performed many three-game weeks, he’s picked up a knock in coaching and was uncomfortable.

“The choice was that we didn’t suppose it was price dropping him probably for eight to 10 weeks. We determined to offer him a breather this week and provides another person a possibility.”

Roberts has scored two targets and offered one help in his final seven Championship matches for the Black Cats and has been a vivid spark on the prime finish of the pitch in latest weeks.

Nonetheless, he might now be out for a brief time period after selecting up this knock and that leaves different gamers, as Mowbray said, with a possibility to indicate they need to be beginning recurrently forward of him.

One gem who did precisely that towards Burnley was on-loan attacker Amad Diallo. The Manchester United loanee peeled away on the again submit and wrong-footed the goalkeeper with a reverse, left-footed, end into the close to submit to open the scoring within the sport, demonstrating the flexibility he has in entrance of purpose.

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His purpose was not the one eye-catching a part of his efficiency, although, as he additionally created three possibilities for his teammates and received six of his 11 particular person duels. This reveals that he held his personal from a bodily perspective and had the standard on the ball to open up the Burnley defence to tee up his teammates, though he was not rewarded with an help for his efforts.

Former Manchester United winger Daniel James as soon as hailed Amad as being “unbelievable” in coaching and journalist Josh Bunting lately praised the 5-foot-8 magician, stating in a submit on Twitter: “You may see the expertise he has is outstanding, the standard is there, was so vivid yesterday and for me, he made an enormous distinction.”

The 20-year-old’s efficiency towards Burnley means that he has the potential to step up in Roberts’ absence, and past, and be the brand new hero for Mowbray on the prime finish of the pitch.

His statistics at youth degree additionally point out that he has the scope to go on and produce high quality within the ultimate third on a constant foundation, as he was instantly concerned in ten targets in 5 video games for Manchester United’s U21s and 28 targets in 46 matches for Atalanta’s Primavera aspect.

It’s now right down to the £20k-per-week expertise to offer that he might be constant on the pitch within the Championship and his show towards the Clarets was a terrific begin.