Niall Quinn

If Sunderland, you would almost expect them to be kind of a downtrodden Sunderland today.

So the pressure is still on.

It shouldn't be.

I think Palace have played well enough to have dealt that a point at home to Burnley would look really good on that table now.

So they've got to still pick it up.

And I think they've deteriorated in the last couple of weeks.

I mean, against Spurs for an hour, they looked all right.

They looked as if they were still on song.

The moment Sacco went, wasn't it?

Yes, Saka went off injured and it seems from then there's been a big void in the team and the revelation there, of course, is saying that we didn't have time to worry.

That's not a bad thing on Sam.

That's saying that this crisis of injuries at centre-back, we're all over the place.

So, yeah, it's a difficult one for them, but no feeling sorry for themselves.

And Sam is cross.

But he's got to turn that into motivation between now and this game next week.

And that's not easy.

You have a go at your centre-half and you have a go at defenders and you have a go at people.

That's all right on Saturday Sunday.

But the real skill of a manager is to have them next week and say, hey, come on, I need you now.

Time to get this point that gets us over the line.