Source: SKY_Sports
Brown slams terrible defending
Phil Brown admitted his Hull City side have a lot of work to do after going down 4-1 at Sunderland.
The Tigers had been level at the interval on Saturday, with Kamil Zayatte cancelling out Darren Bent's opener.
However, a disastrous second half saw Andy Reid restore the Black Cats' lead, Bent grab a second of the game and Zayatte put through his own net to round off a miserable afternoon for the visitors.
Brown was forced to accept afterwards that Hull had not shown enough to take anything from the game, with their defensive frailties punished in devastating fashion.
"From a personal point of view it was bitterly disappointing, coming back up here to the club I used to support," he told Sky Sports.
"But to be honest, at half-time I couldn't see it coming. I thought we were in the game and had played some good stuff.
Soft
"But the most important thing, in my opinion, where footballers are concerned is what goes on between the ears. It looked as if we were soft in the second half. We conceded too many individual errors, which Sunderland capitalised on.
"It will be a case of back to the drawing board on Monday and that back four certainly needs a lot of work. That kind of defending is just not acceptable."
Brown felt Hull were well in the game at the break, having equalised moments before half-time, but admits Reid's effort four minutes into the second period drained all confidence from his team.
"It gave us a gee-up or a spur just before half-time and gives you that impetus ahead of the second half," he said on Zayatte's leveller.
"But having scored our goal just before half-time, they scored a second just after half-time and that killed us to a certain extent.
"If you look at the statistics we are well in the game, but the main statistic is we have conceded four goals. There is going to be a lot of hard work on the training ground this week."
