How did the players fare in Sunderland's 3-0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday?
SHEFF WED (3-4-1-2):
Peacock-Farrell 6; Palmer 7, Dunkley 8, Johnson 7; Paterson 7, Adeniran 6, Wing 7, CORBEANU 8 (Brown 82); Bannan 7 (Dele-Bashiru 67); Gregory 7 (Berahino 84), Kamberi 8.
Subs (not used): Wildsmith (gk), Shodipo, Hunt, Sow.
SUNDERLAND (4-3-3):
5 Hoffman: Couldn’t really be faulted for the Wednesday goals, but isn’t commanding his area with the same dominance he was displaying a few months ago
4 Winchester: Is starting to look like a midfielder playing out of position – struggled to cope with Corbeanu’s marauding wing-back runs
4 Flanagan: Tried to hold things together at the heart of the back four but was fighting a losing battle – too slow to react when Gregory scored
3 Doyle: Is going through a spell when his youth and inexperience is starting to show – it might be time to take him out of the firing line
4 Cirkin: Continued trying to get forward, but wasn’t able to deal with Wednesday’s attacking threat from the flanks
3 O’Nien: Couldn’t get a grip on the game defensively and offered nothing in terms of supporting the Sunderland attack
4 Evans: Was recalled to the starting side to try to shore things up, but failed to exert any kind of positive influence
5 Neil: Had a first-half effort chalked off for offside, but didn’t do anything like enough to threaten in the Wednesday box
3 Gooch: Completely switched off as Corbeanu opened the scoring and misplaced a succession of attempted balls into the box
7 STEWART: Sunderland’s best player by a country mile – never stopped trying to get on the ball despite a lack of support
4 O’Brien: Failed to get a shot away when the ball dropped his way in the second half and toiled unsuccessfully all night
Subs:
4 Pritchard (for Neil, 64): Wasn’t able to improve things from an attacking perspective in his half-hour on the field
Embleton (for Gooch, 72)
Broadhead (for O’Brien, 82)
(not used): Burge (gk), Alves, Wright, Dajaku, Broadhead.
Man Of The Match: THEO CORBEANU – Sheffield Wednesday’s left wing-back scored his side’s first goal and set up their second.
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