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title: "PLAYER RATINGS: Stoke vs Sunderland"
canonical: "https://readsunderland.com/2016/10/19/player-ratings-stoke-vs-sunderland/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Jordan Wilkinson"
section: "Articles"
published: "2016-10-19T13:54:32Z"
modified: "2016-10-19T13:54:32Z"
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# PLAYER RATINGS: Stoke vs Sunderland

Sunderland travelled to Stoke on Saturday,with both teams looking for their first win of the season.

What followed was disappointing and uninspiring even for Sunderland standards. 8 minutes into the match, Sunderland found themselves a goal down and while control may have been regained after conceding, we never really created any real chances. Nevertheless going in 1-0 down at half time felt recoverable. Then in stoppage time at the end of the first half, Stoke and Joe Allen got their second goal. All of a sudden any hopes of a second half recovery were dashed.

David Moyes must have delivered a flat team talk at half time, as Sunderland came out with no fire in the belly and the second half flew by, with Sunderland mustering just a single shot on target.

As much as David Moyes tried defend his players, in truth, even half decent performances were few and far between. So let’s get to the ratings