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title: "Allardyce rues lack of discipline"
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author: "Chris Sparks"
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published: "2015-11-01T21:42:31Z"
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# Allardyce rues lack of discipline

Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce was left feeling bemused as his side threw away a point at Goodison Park today in a 6-2 defeat on Merseyside. Goals from Jermain Defoe and Steven Fletcher either side of half-time brought the Black Cats level after Everton had cemented a two-goal lead. Everton ran away with the game in the second half, with Arouna Kone bagging a hat-trick and Romelu Lukaku proving a handful.

Questions will be asked of Sam Allardyce’s system with a 3-5-2 formation being used and simply not working. Whilst many individuals may have played themselves out of the team such as Wes Brown and Costel Pantilimon.

> “We’ve thrown away an opportunity to feel good this weekend,” said Allardyce, speaking to [safc.com](https://www.safc.com/news/team-news/2015/november/allardyce-everton-reaction?utm_source=home_newsfeed&utm_medium=latest_news_article_0_news_title&utm_campaign=newsteam_news2015novemberallardyce_everton_reaction) . “We went behind when we really shouldn’t have done, clawed our way to 2-2 and then, for me, that’s when we should have been at least coming off with a point today.

> “If Everton had scored a wonder goal you can say ‘there’s not a lot we can do about that’, but the last four goals were all stoppable by us and there was nothing brilliant about Everton’s play.”

> He continued: “We became so open and so easy to play through. We seemed to get carried away by the euphoria of getting the equaliser and we had really good opportunities to get 3-2 up, but instead of taking one we’ve left the backdoor open to Everton to make it look like an extremely easy win.

> “That’s a lack of understanding of where you’re playing who you’re playing against. You’ve got to keep emotional control and you play at this level via the intelligence you’ve got – ability is all well and good but if you don’t have the intelligence with it at this level you lose control.

> “All the lads are looking around saying ‘what’s happened’. They’ve let it happen, not because of Everton’s play but because they’ve lost their discipline out of possession, and that’s a great shame because like I said at 2-2 it was looking comfortable for us and we should of just protected that.”