Sunderland will quickly return to Championship motion after the prolonged worldwide break eager to select up their first win of November after having to accept three attracts on the spin up to now this month.
Their final likelihood to select up three factors will come away at Millwall, with the Black Cats fearful they might even drop out of the highest two in the event that they lose on the Den and different outcomes pile on the distress.
Regis Le Bris shall be hopeful that one other win is forthcoming although, figuring out that he has an distinctive batch of mortgage stars at his disposal, alongside the remainder of his proficient camp.
Sunderland’s prime mortgage performers
Wilson Isidor notched up his fifth purpose of the season already final day trip versus Coventry Metropolis, with the Zenit St. Petersburg loanee proving himself to be an on the spot hit with the Stadium of Mild plenty.
It is the style through which he’s ending off these possibilities too that has made him such a deal with to observe on Wearside, with a first-time end in opposition to the Sky Blues executed to perfection.
Away from Isidor gifting his new facet some much-needed firepower, Chris Mepham has additionally confirmed himself to be a worthwhile mortgage seize in defence.
The towering Welshman wasn’t fairly at his finest when Sunderland fell to a 2-2 draw in opposition to Coventry, however he has been essential in different clashes the place the Black Cats have needed to dig deep to win, with a surprising ten duels received away at Luton City on the finish of October to assist his crew narrowly win 2-1.
Nonetheless, not each loanee that enters the constructing will go on to make an affect like Mepham or Isidor, with one former Sunderland attacker barely remembered for his keep on the Stadium of Mild.
He’s now identified although to be a prime Premier League performer, somebody who’s even rivalling the likes of Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe in a single division of his recreation…
Sunderland loanee now rivalling Mbappe and Haaland
No person would have seen Antoine Semenyo’s rise coming when he was timidly donning a Black Cats strip, with the 24-year-old pushed out on mortgage to the Black Cats again in 2020 from then-parent membership Bristol Metropolis.
Semenyo would go on to make seven unmemorable appearances for Sunderland throughout what was a rocky patch within the Wearside membership’s latest historical past, contemplating they have been simply contemporary off back-to-back relegations all the way down to League One.
Semenyo would go on to make a reputation for himself again at Bristol after this tour on the Stadium of Mild, nonetheless, earlier than AFC Bournemouth picked him up and turned him right into a star able to scoring gorgeous solo strikes just like the one he conjured up in opposition to South Coast neighbours Southampton earlier this season.
Leaving an entire host of Saints shirts within the mud earlier than firing previous Aaron Ramsdale, the “highly effective” attacker – as he has been described by teammate Lewis Cook dinner – is as much as 4 targets now from 12 Premier League video games. That has even included scoring in opposition to Haaland’s Man Metropolis.
That is not the final time the slick Ghanaian winger shall be talked about in the identical breath because the Scandinavian sharpshooter, with FBRef exhibiting that Semenyo and Haaland are extraordinarily shut on the subject of photographs registered per recreation this marketing campaign.
All of Europe’s large 5 leagues have been taken into consideration right here too, because the Cherries revelation begins to rub shoulders with some elite attackers on the subject of his instincts in and across the field.
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Most photographs registered – prime 5 European leagues (24/25) |
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Participant |
Complete photographs |
Complete targets |
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1. Erling Haaland |
54 |
12 |
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2. Nikola Kristovic |
52 |
2 |
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3. Kylian Mbappe |
49 |
6 |
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4. Antoine Semenyo |
47 |
4 |
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5. Valentin Castellanos |
44 |
5 |
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Stats by way of FBRef |
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Amazingly, the Bournemouth quantity 24 is just two in need of Mbappe’s photographs whole for the season enjoying for Actual Madrid in La Liga, with 47 photographs amassed throughout his 15 video games within the Premier League. It is protected to say he is an actual menace for Premier League defences.
There could possibly be much more to return from Semenyo because the marketing campaign rolls on, as he goals to determine himself as a persistently brilliant performer within the prime flight.
Sunderland will simply curse the very fact they could not get extra out of Semenyo in the course of the infancy of his enjoying days, earlier than this wild transformation at Bournemouth.
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