Tony Mowbray has backed Joe Gelhardt to get goals for Sunderland - after the on-loan Leeds United man was the width of the woodwork away from scoring at QPR. The January addition is still finding his feet at his new club and has yet to open his account but twice went close in the 3-0 win at Loftus Road, hitting the sidenetting in the first period and then the crossbar late in the second half.
The 20-year-old is making the adjustment from being a bit-part player at Leeds to being a regular starter at Sunderland, with Ross Stewart's season-ending injury leaving Gelhardt as the Black Cats' only available striker for the remainder of the campaign. And Mowbray said of the youngster: "He will score goals for us.
"He's a kid who's played ten minutes here and ten minutes there for Leeds United. He's hardly played 90 minutes, which is why I was taking him off ready for Saturday so he can give us another hour or 70 minutes.
