Poyet Sees The Villa Game As Two Points Dropped

Gus Poyet looked back on the 0-0 draw with Aston Villa on Sunday and came to the conclusion that it was a case of two points dropped, not one gained.

Sunderland were handed a golden opportunity to snaffle three points from the Villa Park encounter when referee Martin Atkinson deemed that Fabio Delp’s tackle on Jordi Gomez was worth a red card.

But if anything it seemed to bond the home side as they adopted a ‘none shall pass’ policy and the Black Cats could not find a way through.

Guzan in the Villa goal saved his side from a defeat when he produced a fingertip save late in the game to deny Gomez, but when you look at the way the game was played after the sending off, Villa had their fair share of chances to win it.

That said, it was hardly exciting stuff.

Poyet must be wondering just where the goals that his side desperately lacks are going to come from as his side ended the games for 2014 with yet another draw and no goals.

He told Sky Sports: ‘It feels very much like we`ve lost two points today as the game was there to take.

‘We tried, there’s nobody can say that we didn’t try as we were constantly pushing forward, but we just didn’t find the back of the net.’

He added: ‘We should have made more of the extra man but we didn’t. The effort was there but we just couldn’t manage to make more of it.’

Next stop for Sunderland is a trip to the Etihad Stadium to take on Manchester City on New Years Day.