Sunderland manager David Moyes has admitted that he sees their 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion this afternoon as two points dropped rather than one gained.
The Black Cats picked up just their second point of the season courtesy of Patrick van Aanholt's equaliser against the Baggies at the Stadium of Light, climbing off the bottom of the table in the process.
Moyes reserved special praise for Van Aanholt, but revealed that he went into the match expecting to come away with their first win of the season.
"Obviously, we see it as points dropped, not as a point gained, but with 10 minutes to go, I'd have taken a point because we hadn't got one then," he told reporters.
"We had been training Pat further forward this week in a couple of sessions to see how it looked. But the one thing with Pat is he gets some goals - he scored the goal against Middlesbrough.
"He's got a couple of goals already, Pat, which if you said at the end of the season a left-back gets you two, three, four goals, you'd be saying that's quite a good return. But what we need is everybody else to get the goals, then it looks like your left-back has done well."
Sunderland's next match sees them take on Stoke in a battle of the bottom two after the international break.
