"It feels like back to drawing board for me after that," said Alex Neil. "I don't want to put a dampener on a win, but I'm not taking massive satisfaction from that at all to be honest."
Neil made no attempt to put a positive spin on Sunderland's poor performance in victory against Fleetwood Town. The 3-1 scoreline at the Stadium of Light may have looked comfortable at full-time, but to say it flattered the Black Cats would be an understatement.
Neil could have shrugged off the display and insisted the result was all that mattered, given Sunderland's situation in the play-off race means they need to win games by hook or by crook in the run-in. But instead he was honest enough to admit that the result had merely papered over the cracks.
