O’Shea says Sunderland dressing room was disappointed after late defeat

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Sunderland were beaten 1-0 by West Ham United courtesy of a late Winston Reid goal.

Sunderland captain John O’Shea has spokem to safc.com about the atmosphere in the dressing room following their late defeat to West Ham United, but he is trying to remain positive.

The game was decided by Winston Reid’s 94th-minute strike, with his effort going through host of bodies and past a helpless Jordan Pickford, although there were complaints from Sunderland boss David Moyes that the offside flag should have gone up.

The goal stood however, and Sunderland suffered yet another defeat as they remain rock bottom of the Premier League.

“I’m not going to lie, the dressing room was extremely disappointed afterwards,” O’Shea told safc.com.

“But we have to realise for so long we were frustrating West Ham, Jordan didn’t have too much to do.”

Before the game, the Black Cats spoke about the need to cut out sloppy, schoolboy errors but they reared their ugly head yet again at the London Stadium.

This is not the first time that a late goal has saw Sunderland suffer defeat, with strikes in the last 10 minutes against Crystal Palace, Manchester City and Southampton costing the Wearside club points.

For Reid’s goal, too many Sunderland players had switched off, allowing the Hammers to take a short corner, and then no one closed the goalscorer down, who was able to pick out the bottom corner and gift Slaven Bilic’s side all three points.

While they had frustrated the home side, Sunderland were the makers of their own downfall yet again. Moyes’ side need to start doing themselves some favours, because no one else is going to do it for them.