Manager comments from Sunderland 0 - 1 Cardiff

Last updated : 26 September 2023 By Michael Morris

Erol Bulut

"It was a great win, but first congratulations to Sunderland who have one of the best teams in the league. They have a good future ahead of them. It was not easy to have this victory for us.

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"Sometimes you have to fight to win and score one goal and this time it got us a victory. We got the chance and we finalised it. We got the corner, there was great fight, and we scored from it.

"You could see the first games we had in the league, where we were leading and we lost points. Concentration was not how I wanted it. But we have trained, spoken about it, had individual meetings, and the last few weeks have been better.

"It's still not perfect, and football is a mistakes game, so we tried not to make mistakes in the defence and we were in the right position to win.

"We have three wins now and we have to stay calm. I am a manager who tries to give maximum, take maximum and ask for the maximum. If we get those we will get rewards."

Tony Mowbray

"We shouldn't be too disappointed, they gave it a real go. We found it last year, teams will come and defend here, get men behind the ball and they were very resilient.

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"We have have to find that extra bit of quality. It felt like we dominated the game, and it could have been a nice 1-0 win for us.

"I didn't think Cardiff looked like winning the game but they have nicked one in the end. It's frustrating for us.

"There was lots of good stuff from us in the right areas, but maybe the final pass, that final ricochet, wasn't there. Cardiff managed to block a few second half and we will give them credit, they came with a game-plan and we didn't manage to break it down.

"We had the ball a lot and yet we didn't find a way to score today. We had lots of moments and I am sure had we found that extra touch we would have scored and won the game."