£3m Sunderland expertise may very well be their subsequent big-money star

Even with the distraction of the switch window rolling into its last few frantic hours, Sunderland and Middlesbrough nonetheless managed to play out a Championship traditional on the Riverside Stadium on Monday evening.

Certainly, the close to neighbours would share the objectives out for almost all of the entertaining conflict, just for Regis Le Bris’ males to then clinch a decisive winner late on courtesy of a Ryan Giles personal purpose to select up a chaotic 3-2 away win.

There have been numerous standout performers for the Black Cats, however it was Enzo Le Price who lapped up probably the most plaudits come the full-time whistle.

Le Price’s efficiency in numbers

It is honest to say the French midfielder lastly introduced himself to the English sport correctly with this standout show at Boro, having proven transient flashes of his pedigree in different Championship contests to this point.

On the Riverside, nonetheless, Le Price oozed class from minute one, with a elegant first contact serving to Sunderland bundle residence that dramatic late winner.

Away from this second of audacious high quality, Le Price managed to run skilled EFL face Luke Ayling ragged all evening lengthy down the left flank with 100% of his dribble makes an attempt efficiently accomplished, while additionally selecting up an help when Wilson Isidor fired Le Bris’ facet right into a 2-1 lead.

Profitable seven duels as a battler for his workforce too, it was a particularly well-rounded show from the ex-Lorient man who’s greater than residing as much as his billing as a £19m worthy footballer.

However, Le Bris shall be conscious he is not the one star in his facet who might make him some huge bucks down the road, with one other of his standout belongings inflicting Boro all kinds of trouble yesterday night.

Isidor’s efficiency in numbers

The star in query right here is the aforementioned Isidor, who has been letting his soccer do the speaking in latest matches after that disastrous two-penalty miss sport versus Burnley.

Certainly, since that Turf Moor horror present, the Black Cats quantity 19 has had two objectives to shout about from his subsequent three Championship encounters, with an ice-cold strike on the Riverside to present his facet a slim lead making new Boro goalkeeper Mark Travers look very silly.

Regardless of amassing simply eight touches of the ball, it was a show that showcased precisely why the Mackems forked out £3.3m in January to land his companies completely, with the striker additionally efficiently successful 100% of his duels on the evening.

If that does come to fruition, Isidor will little question see this price ticket go up and up in worth, to doubtlessly the identical heights as Le Price’s bumper valuation.

Frighteningly, there may very well be much more to come back from the skilful striker if all the things slots into place between now and the tip of the marketing campaign, with Isidor squandering a hefty 14 huge possibilities away from his promising purpose return of ten league strikes from 27 contests.

Labelled as a “ridiculous” striker by soccer knowledge analyst Ben Mattinson after his trendy strike towards Michael Carrick’s males, Isidor might quickly flip into an much more achieved performer for his facet if his sport is refined simply that little bit extra, with each the 24-year-old and Le Price little question key cogs within the Sunderland machine transferring ahead if promotion is to be reached.

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