Tony Mowbray gives verdict on Sunderland's defeat vs Leicester City

Sunderland lost 1-0 away at Leicester City in the Championship last night.

Luke Phelps | Oct 25, 2023

Tony Mowbray gives verdict on Sunderland's defeat vs Leicester City /

Sunderland lost 1-0 away at Leicester City in the Championship last night.

Sunderland have now lost their last three in the Championship after losing narrowly away at league leaders Leicester City last night.

The Black Cats have dropped out of the top six and sit in 9th place of the table as things stand, though just a point currently separates them and West Brom in 5th.

Leicester have now won 12 of their opening 13 games and Sunderland certainly do themselves a discredit last night, putting up a good game against a very good side.

Sunderland ended the game with 0.96 xG compared to Leicester's 1.36, having had 12 attempts on goal compared to Leicester's seven, and also 48% of the possession.

And boss Tony Mowbray echoed that positivity in his post match interview. He's quoted as saying:

“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.”

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