NIGEL Clough has urged his team to cut out individual errors at the Pirelli Stadium this afternoon, in a bid to end a five-game losing run.
The Brewers have lost their last five games at home, despite picking up valuable points on the road, but Clough feels that too many errors are being made at home and says that his team will have to cut them out to try and win on home soil.
âWe feel at the moment that the formation is almost irrelevant.â said Clough. âIf people make mistakes then it doesnât really matter the formation. We look at the goals we conceded against Sheffield United and they are three mistakes from three individuals so that doesnât help your thinking or help you clarify anything when you are trying to find a shape to try and win a game at home.
âYou look at it and think âwas that formation really down to the goals we conceded?â and we keep saying âno not reallyâ. If we had three at the back or four at the back it doesnât really matter when people make individual errors, thereâs not much we can do about it. It will be more about concentrating on trying not to make any mistakes against Sunderland.â
Despite encouraging performances against Ipswich Town and Barnsley at the Pirelli in recent weeks the Brewers havenât picked up any points on home turf since the middle of September, and Nigel Clough is aware of the quality that Sunderland possess in their squad.
He said: âIâll tell you what they (Sunderland) have got, they have got the quality to capitalise on it. When you look at their squad and the internationals throughout their squad they have the quality, no matter about their league position or the run they are having or anything like that, itâs undoubted quality throughout their squad.â