Moyes rues lack of options
David Moyes admitted that he wishes he had more options as his side lost in their FA Cup third round replay to Burnley.
Sunderland's woes this season continued as they were knocked out of the FA Cup by Burnley, in their 2-0 third round replay defeat at fortress Turf Moor.
After the match, manager David Moyes rued his side's lack of options and said that he wishes he had the opportunity to shake things up, but cannot afford to as he is working with a threadbare squad.
"I've not wanted to use it [a lack of players] as an excuse and I've genuinely tried not to, and I'm not using it here. The players that are out there I expect to play better, I don't expect them to make a couple of mistakes, but if I had other players, maybe I could take some players out and put somebody else in," the Scot said.
"I could do something different with it and let them know - you're not getting away with that. At the moment I can't do that. I've tried not to use it in any way as an excuse but it's a fact, we're short, we're finding it a struggle, we're putting near enough the same players out".
Sunderland recently dropped down to 19th place in the Premier League after Marco Silva's resurgent Hull side beat Bournemouth 3-1 at the KCOM Stadium on Saturday.
To make things even worse for Moyes and Sunderland fans, it appears that arch rivals Newcastle will most probably win promotion to the Premier League. All is not well on Wearside.