Lynden Gooch: 'Sunderland don't fear anyone'

Lynden Gooch says Sunderland ‘fear no one’ in the Championship and have proven why they don’t need to.

Sunderland came into this season as something of an unknown having spent the last four years in League One.

Gooch is the only remaining player who also represented the club in the Premier League, so he is well positioned to analyse just where the club are in terms of the development.

He says the club is completely transformed from where it was just a year or so ago, and he does not want to put any limits on what this squad can achieve this season.

“I think the lads are doing great, obviously we have had some big injuries and the manager now knows he can trust a lot more players by giving them the opportunities when injuries have happened,” Gooch told safc.com.

“It’s healthy he has rotated this week, which would have been a big plus to him knowing he has been able to do that.

“I think when you are winning games it takes care of itself and there is a good buzz around the place. We have kept doing what we were doing from the end of last season and kept that momentum going.

“We don’t fear anyone, and we have proved that on the pitch no matter who we have played. We take it one game at a time and let’s see where we end up.”

Gooch has been missing from the Sunderland side for the last month since picking up an injury in the defeat to Swansea.

He is expecting to be back very soon, though he knows he has his work cut out to get his place back in Tony Mowbray’s starting eleven.

“I’m going to be back out running on Monday so just a couple of weeks away. It was my knee, a bit of cartilage damage so it has taken time to heal. I’m itching to get back out there.

“The lads have done brilliant, so I’ve got a lot of hard work ahead to get back into the team.”

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