Jack Rodwell has admitted thathe agrees with the suggestion that Sunderland have regressed under their current manager David Moyes, in an interview with theChroniclelive.
Sunderland sit rock bottom of the Premier League having failed to win a match this season. Last weekend's heartbreaking 1-0 loss at West Hammeant that its now seven defeats so far in this campaign and the pressure has increased once again on manager David Moyes.
Before the last minute defeat at the London Stadium, striker Jermain Defoe claimed that the team had gone backwards under the Scot and needed to improve quickly, if the Black Cats had any hopes of retaining their Premier League status.
Jermain Defoe believes Sunderland have "gone backwards" under David Moyes. Read here: https://t.co/jumznh7BSQ pic.twitter.com/M716N3t0aq
Jack Rodwell has now added hissupport to his teammate's claims that the team have regressed and believes that it is down to the players to help their beleaguered manager.
He said:"We probably have gone a bit backwards.
"It's not easy when you are chopping and changing all of the time, as players, as managers, but that's no excuse.We have a great manager here and we need to do it on the pitch. It's the 11 players on the pitch who have to do it.
"We have gone a bit backwards, but we are the ones who can put it right.But anyone can beat anyone this season if you put the hard work in.Sometimes we need a bit of luck on our side as well. If we can get a good win against Arsenal, then that will lift us massively."
Sunderland's Premier League record under David Moyes:
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Goals: 6
Conceded: 16
The only side yet to win a game. pic.twitter.com/TcSkOyj6Bk
The club have now matched last season's record of failing to win their first nine games in the league. They ended that sequence at the tenth attempt,with a 3-0 win over rivals Newcastle United so failure to win this coming weekend against Arsenal will eclipse thatpoor run.
Rodwellbelieves it is impossible to predict what lies ahead for Sunderland this year but conceded that it is likely to be another season battling relegation, despite hopes that life would be different at the Stadium of Light this time around.
Rodwell added: "I would like to say it is still early in the season, but we are getting on to the point now where we need to start really getting back-to-back wins.
"It will be a fight to the wire. We have done it in the last few seasons and ideally we didn't want to do it this season, but it looks like it could be another fight for the rest of the season.We will be prepared to do that, but I don't want to talk about relegation just yet. It is about time we started winning. It's must-win games already.
"I would have settled for a point in the closing stages here (at West Ham) and I thought we had it. A lapse in concentration and it has cost us. If we had got a point here then it wouldn't be doom and gloom.
"I do believe there is enough in this dressing room, throughout the team and the staff. It is going to be a fight and we all have to be prepared to do it.�
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