'Nowhere near good enough'published at 17:14 Greenwich Mean Time 31 December 2016
Burnley 4-1 Sunderland
Sunderland
Sunderland captain John O'Shea: "Unacceptable today, not good enough. Away from home you have to be resilient together, but the goals we conceded were not acceptable and the players have to take responsibility.
"Nowhere near good enough, and we will have to rectify this quickly. There is no excuse for what went on, and it's something we will have to look at collectively and individually and dust ourselves down very quickly.
"The dressing room is not a good place at the minute but we know we can quickly turn this around. We have to have the attitude that we fight together.
"We want to give ourselves a chance and make teams earn their goals, not gift them like we did today. Burnley took their chances well but we helped them a lot along the way."