Alex Neil was left 'frustrated' after Sunderland's friendly against Rangers in Portugal was abandoned at half-time due to a powercut. The Black Cats were leading 1-0 at the break thanks to Luke O'Nien's goal just before the half-hour, but as the reassembled on the pitch for the start of the second period the Estadio Municipal de Albufeira was plunged into darkness.
After a delay of around 45 minutes, the announcement came that the game would not be restarting and the match was abandoned. It gave Neil a headache as he had planned to give most of his side a full 90 minutes against Rangers, and a handful of others an hour, and they have now played fewer minutes than expected.
"We'll need to have a think about what we do now," said Neil. "Obviously the lads who came back a bit later after international duty, they were only going to play 60 but the others needed the 90 really.
