Reaction from writers James Copley and Phil Smith as Sunderland draw with Middlesbrough - plus Dan Ballard injury latest.
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00:00 What did you think of Yelda and his debut? I personally thought it was pretty solid, he grew into it and I think he looks a decent find actually.
00:08 Solid is the word I would use, yeah. There were quite a few errors in possession, passes straight out of play.
00:14 You'd expect that though, wouldn't you?
00:16 That's what I was going to say, yeah. There was one in the first half where he got caught on the ball.
00:19 But I think having trained so little with his new teammates, to be put into a game of that intensity as well against a good championship side, having played so little football recently,
00:29 I think you have to say that some of that was to be expected.
00:32 Defensively he looks pretty strong, made one really good covering challenge to stop Forse getting a tap in quite shortly before the first goal actually.
00:40 Yeah, and he's got real height as well, which I think is something that, given what we've talked about with Sunderland over the last year, that's something that so often they've been massively lacking.
00:48 It was a good call from Bale to put him in, as you said it would have been easy to keep it the same because Seagate have done okay in the previous weeks,
00:54 but he made a big difference putting him in his strongest position, as you said. So, yeah, I thought it was a really solid debut.
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