Cats manager delighted by his side’s solidity and quality
Jack Ross praised ‘resilient, robust and compact’ Sunderland after the 2-0 win at Bristol Rovers, adding he always believes this side will produce moments of quality.
A clean sheet and three points on the road, and backto-back league wins for the first time since November, ensured this has been a very good week for the promotionchasing Black Cats.
The gap to second has been cut to two points.
Ross said: “I’ve spoken about this a lot but pre- and post-match we maybe don’t give the opposition enough credit just because of the expectations on us.
“We came to a team that hadn’t lost since we had played them, were on good form and had a lot to play for.
“You see the size of the crowd and that’s a challenge. We had to be resilient, robust and compact and we did that.
“You then always believe you’ll produce moments of quality and we did that.
“We look at a lot of the aspects of our game and we know we’ll always offer an attacking threat. We had a little period where we didn’t and we got to the bottom of that, and then you have to address the other side of it as well.
“It’s the whole group, not just the defence, and in fairness to them they took on board what we asked them to do.
“That was pleasing, we looked solid. It then allows the latter part of the game to be more manageable,” added Ross.