Everything Lee Johnson had to say about Sunderland fans, Cambridge United and Ipswich Town during presser

Head over to the Sunderland Echo website for the latest Lee Johnson quotes from the un-televised part of his interview. In the mean time, an update has been provided on Charlie Wyke.

It has to bring opportunity, pressure is external. We have had challenges. We aren’t at the top end of our form but we are fighting for seven points in a week. It wouldn’t be perfect but it would be decent. We have had a lot of games with the cups.

Our fans have been really supportive as well. Everyone I bump into and there’s a lot of Sunderland fans all around the world and everyone has been really really supportive.

There’s no doubt that when you perform poorly people will vent their frustrations but it is my job to flatten those waves. When you come to. club like Sunderland you know what to expect.

We have challenges. We’ve had challenges all week. We have an injury list of seven or eight players going into this game. Not ideal but we have to adapt.

It is a club (Cambridge) are close to my heart. I was brought up on the terraces there. i was a ball boy, my dad was manager and assistant manager there, I grew up in the area.

It is a game we are looking forward to it. I have all the local knowledge on this one. I used to hide in a skip during half time team talks!

We have to be better away from home because our home form is one of the bets in the country. We have to control the game and create opportunities.

We want to be better. We are working to be better. The Ipswich game was important. Our distances were outstanding. We have come out winning the game against the galacticos of the division.

When Prictahrd scored everyone though the three points were in the bag, the players and the fan base. It was three points dropped. We want to improve.

We want to add to our game but we have had a lot of injuries. Especially in the full-back.

I think you look at both what went well and what didn’t go well. We had 20 odd shots but the quality wasn’t there. The build phase was excellent. Our width down the right wasn’t good enough. We had poor delivery. You have to take the good and the bad.

We have been hit by a sucker punch.

Plymouth Argyle manager Ryan Lowe says the club will take care of Brendan Galloway after he dislocated his kneecap.

The 25-year-old former Sunderland defender is out of contract in January.

Galloway joined the club on a short-term deal in July but played for the Wearsiders on loan from Everton during the Black Cats’ Championship relegation season.

The Zimbabwe international will now Africa Cup of Nations.

Galloway’s side have been drawn against Senegal, Guinea and Malawi in January.

“It’s is going to be a long spell out,” Lowe said.

“We were in contract negotiations with Brendan and they were going very smoothly.

“But what we’ve got to do now is as a football club we’ll morally look after Brendan and he will have a future at Argyle and we will give him the best opportunity to get back fit and firing because I think he deserves it.

“Whatever he has to do, whether it’s surgery and recovery, we’ll get him back to where we feel he belongs, which is playing football.

“He was low a bit yesterday. We’ll try and pick up his sprits and we’ve said ‘Don’t worry, your future’s fine’, which I’m sure gave him a smile and he’s a little bit relieved with that.”