Alex Pritchard's injury made two dropped points seem the least of Sunderland's problems
Sunderland's goalless draw at Charlton Athletic was a game of contradictions. On the one hand, the return of Nathan Broadhead after two-and-a-half months on the sidelines, a positive performance - including a first-half display that Alex Neil described as the best football of his five-game tenure - in which Sunderland dominated possession, created a hatful of chances, and in which they denied the Addicks so much as a single shot on target.


