Sunderland followers could have been eager to see how Jewison Bennette bought on in his World Cup debut on Wednesday however the teenager’s dream shortly changed into a nightmare.
The 18-year-old winger began for Costa Rica of their Group E opener towards Spain however he may do nothing to forestall Luis Enrique’s facet from operating out as emphatic 7-0 winners.
With additional video games to return towards Germany and Japan, issues are unlikely to get any simpler for {the teenager}, and any hopes of inflicting an upset and incomes development to the knockout phases are absolutely over.
Whereas this may very well be an excellent factor from Sunderland’s perspective, because it signifies that Bennette will most likely be again in England in loads of time for when the Championship resumes subsequent month, it can’t be good for the teen’s confidence to be on the top of such an embarrassing defeat.
Sadly for the summer time signing, he merely did not become involved within the recreation in any respect, as Spain dominated from begin to end.
Was Bennette poor towards Spain?
As per SofaScore, Bennette would earn a poor 6.2/10 ranking for his efficiency, registering simply 14 touches of the ball and finishing solely two passes, regardless of being on the pitch for greater than an hour.
For context, Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas would register 29 touches and full 13 passes in the course of the recreation, which emphasises simply how little impression Bennette would have.
Whereas it could be troublesome to count on a youngster to step up because the Central American facet’s greatest participant, particularly towards such sturdy opposition, he definitely didn’t repay Luis Fernando Suárez’s religion in him at hand him a begin on Wednesday.
When Bennette arrived on the Stadium of Mild in the course of the summer time, former supervisor Alex Neil dubbed him a “huge talent“, though he’s yet to start for the membership within the Championship even when he did rating a memorable equaliser towards Watford.
Hopefully he nonetheless has a shiny future with the Black Cats, however this World Cup defeat and efficiency are unlikely to have carried out his confidence any good, nor his possibilities of being handed that elusive first outing from the off at Sunderland.
Certainly, he ruined his huge likelihood to impress on the best stage of all.