Tony Mowbray has praised 'amazing' Pierre Ekwah as the youngster continues his development at Sunderland. The January signing from West Ham arrived as a raw 21-year-old who had yet to play a senior game but the midfielder has been gradually integrated into the Black Cats' first team and is growing in confidence week by week.
Ekwah made his first senior start in Sunderland's draw against eventual Championship winners Burnley and then helped the Wearsiders win at Cardiff City on Easter Monday. And he has gone on to start the last three games of the regular season as Sunderland secured a play-off spot on a dramatic final day of the campaign.
Ekwah brings extra height and physicality to a team that has lost all of its other six-foot-plus outfielders due to injury, with the likes of Danny Batth, Dan Ballard, Aji Alese, and Ross Stewart all sidelined. Mowbray says Ekwah's off-the-ball work is improving all the time, and that is the area he needs to concentrate on to turn himself into an even better player.
