Roefs and Trafford stand firm as Sunderland and Leeds battle for point

The respective goalkeepers made several key saves as Sunderland stay bottom of the Premier League after a 0-0 draw with Leeds Régis Le Bris can usually do impassive to perfection but, by the final whistle, even Sunderland’s ultra balanced manager was looking more than a little fed up and frustrated. His bottom-placed team had probably just about deserved a second Premier League win of the season but instead had to settle for a draw on an afternoon when the hugely disruptive Storm Boelo proved the enemy of good football. While Daniel Farke will doubtless regard this as a decent point on the road for his steadily improving Leeds, much now hinges on Sunderland’s visit to Coventry on Saturday.

The wind was strong and capricious enough to bend the corner flags out of shape, send pieces of rubbish swirling around the pitch and passing calibration horribly awry, but it would take a hurricane to throw Brian Brobbey off balance. The good news for Sunderland was that their formidable centre-forward had recovered from a hamstring injury and seemed to be relishing the physicality of his duel with Jaka Bijol. Along