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Sunderland struck gold with Seb Larsson

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Sunderland’s hunch down the divisions created loads of infamous villains, all of whom contributed to the monetary struggles they discovered themselves in.

Nevertheless, throughout their Premier League keep they did additionally create one or two heroes who will seemingly go down in Black Cats folklore.

Is Seb Larsson a Sunderland legend?

One such identify is Sebastian Larsson, who was introduced in for free all the best way again in 2011.

He had featured 205 instances for Birmingham Metropolis, and but almost repeated that feat on Wearside, the place he performed 203 instances.

The Swedish gem shortly established himself as a nice Premier League midfielder with a wand of a left foot, the likes of which have been greatest expressed over a lifeless ball. He scored 11 free kicks while taking part in in England’s high flight.

His emergence and subsequent reliability throughout many seasons on the Stadium of Gentle made him one thing of a “hero”, as journalist Ross Gregory labelled him following his aim in Sunderland’s win over Manchester United in 2014.

Steve Bruce struck gold with this unassuming deal, along with his qualities seen within the 14 objectives and 23 assists he made while on the membership.

His performances earned him the affectionate title of “Super Seb Larsson”, who James Dodd lauded midway via his first season in Crimson and White.

In his remaining season for the membership, the place they have been unfortunately relegated, he nonetheless maintained a SofaScore ranking of 6.71.

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He averaged 1.1 key passes per sport through the 12 months, and while surrounded by little high quality, solely managed one help.

Regardless of his abundance of creativity, he additionally maintained 1.8 tackles and 1.5 clearances per sport, outlining him because the quintessential all-around midfielder for Sunderland on the time.

Larsson will seemingly be remembered with nice fondness regardless of being an enormous a part of the facet that suffered that first relegation, as a result of his reliability and relentlessness in midfield.

In 2019 he got here out full of praise for the north-east and the way he loved his time there, admitting: “So it was particular not only for soccer causes however it was an enormous a part of my life. I loved my time there. There was disappointment however there have been some actual highs throughout my time there as nicely.”

To see that he too thinks again fondly of the membership lends to this shared love between the participant and followers, and additional outlines how good a deal this turned out to be.