Joe Nicholson and Phil Smith react to Sunderland's 1-1 draw against Millwall at The Den
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00:00 Outside the Den where Sunderland have drawn 1-1 with Millwall, Kevin Nesbitt scoring the opening goal for Millwall on the strike at half-time, Sunderland getting a point with Jack Clark converting from the penalty spot.
00:11 Phil, considering Sunderland were a goal down at half-time, do you consider it a decent point today?
00:17 Yeah, I think it feels like a bit of a disappointing point given the fact that they've come off back-to-back defeats.
00:22 But at the same time, I think about an hour into the game, it looked as if Sunderland were going to lose.
00:26 I thought they were really struggling. Started brightly again, controlled the ball, looked good, but just didn't create many chances.
00:32 And I think the confidence ebbed away actually as they struggled to make chances.
00:35 And I don't think either side at half-time, I thought Millwall looked more likely.
00:38 Mowbray's changes worked. I think the extra experience, Dak, Pritchard, Roberts, I thought made a huge difference.
00:44 And I thought Sunderland were going to win actually, but you have to say at the end that it was Paterson who made the saves, not Bialkowski.
00:49 So it was a fair point. I think that's the right verdict.
00:52 Yeah, the game came quite stretched, wasn't it, towards the end of the second half and they say Paterson made some crucial saves there at the back.
00:59 Yeah, I thought Millwall bizarrely came on stronger after Sunderland equalised.
01:02 Maybe that was because they had so many attacking players on the pitch.
01:05 I know that would be a frustration for Mowbray because you thought they would turn it up after equalising.
01:09 And it's a big dilemma for Mowbray going forward because we can see this team probably looks better without a striker at the moment.
01:15 It looks better when you've got Pritchard's poise, his experience, Dak as well.
01:18 He was probably one of his better performances. But obviously we know the club philosophy is to keep trying to blood these youngsters and they're only going to get better on the pitch.
01:25 So really difficult because Sunderland do need a win.
01:28 And yeah, it's two tricky home games coming up and Sunderland need a result.
01:32 So it's a difficult balance for them coming up, I think.
01:34 You can read more about today's match over on the SCFC section of the Sundernecker website.
01:39 It's now a week till Sunderland's next game. They'll be back at the stadium flight at home against West Brom.