Tony Mowbray says Sunderland's lack of strikers left him feeling he was sending his team into battle 'without the tools to win' as they were beaten at Coventry City. Ross Stewart's season-ending Achilles injury has left the Black Cats boss with on-loan Leeds United frontman Joe Gelhardt as his only out-and-out striker, and while he is clearly a real talent the 20-year-old is still learning on the job as this is the first time he has been asked to make regular senior starts.
Sunderland lost 2-1 at Coventry, and the man of the match performance of Sky Blues striker Viktor Gyokeres - who scored his side's second goal - underlined Mowbray's point. After the game, Mowbray said if Sunderland had had the Swede in their side, or had Stewart been fit to play, he felt the Black Cats would have won.
"I don't know what the opinion of Coventry fans would be of us, but I would think they thought were an alright football team," said Mowbray, who spent 18 months in charge of Coventry before departing in September 2016. "If we had had Viktor Gyokores in our team, we would have won comfortably today, I think.
