\n The Blues claimed a dramatic late victory in the Premier League opener, winning 2-1 – with both Town goals coming from errors made by the Black Cats.\n<\/p>\n
\n And Belgian star Meunier, who signed for Sunderland in July, was clearly left baffled by their display.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cVery disappointed,” he told the club’s media team. “If I was to speak honestly, I didn\u2019t expect this at all.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMost of the time we play at the weekend like we train during the week, but we trained well during the week and we didn\u2019t play well today.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what to think. After the free-kick (equaliser) I thought that we were going back on track. We had a few good actions, a few good moves, were more impacting and I really thought that we would make the difference.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMaybe it\u2019s new to me. It\u2019s the Premier League and you don\u2019t know what to expect and you cannot underestimate anyone.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo for the first one I hoped on something better, but unfortunately it was not the case today.\u201d \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Ex-Sunderland star Jack Clarke won the game for Town late on (Image: Steve Waller)\n<\/p>\n
\n Put to him that Sunderland created ‘a lot of chances’, Meunier disagreed.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cA lot of chances? I don\u2019t think so,” he insisted. “For me we have to create many, many more chances with the players that we have.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe cannot say that we played really badly, it\u2019s not true. We had really good moments and periods in the game, but at the end, we had maybe two or three good chances.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe were dangerous, but in the 16 (yard-box) we were not as dangerous as we have to be to score a goal.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe saw that Ipswich was playing let\u2019s say more simple, more basic and they were quite efficient at the end.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn the second half we were lucky to keep the 1-1 until the end of the game. And finally, we killed ourselves today with two big mistakes and the reaction was missing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo I hope it was just an off day today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues claimed a dramatic late victory in the Premier League opener, winning 2-1 – with both Town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}