Hull City boss Mike Phelan feels 'all the emotions' after loss at Sunderland

Hull City manager Mike Phelan says he felt a full range of emotions during his side's 3-0 defeat at Sunderland.

The Tigers were on the wrong end of a heavy loss at the Stadium of Light on Saturday as Jermain Defoe's 150th Premier League goal and a pair from Victor Anichebe closed the gap between the two sides to just two points.

The game even made it through a floodlight failure, when the score was 1-0, and Hull also felt they were denied a penalty when Sam Clucas appeared to be fouled in the box shortly afterwards.

Phelan said: "It was all the emotions in one game today. Frustration that we didn't take the opportunities that came our way - and there were quite a few from our point of view - attacking-wise.

"But then the annoyance. The disappointment is that you lose a game 3-0, which is very difficult to defend with a team that you believe in and actually probably overall deserved a little bit better."

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For Phelan, the floodlight failure brought back memories of a previous trip to Wearside with former club Manchester United in 2010, during which the dressing room was showered with sewage after a leak from a soil pipe brought the ceiling down.

Phelan said: "A few things seem to happen to me at this football club when I come. I came here with one club and we had issues in the dressing room one year, then the lights go out. Maybe it's just me, maybe I should stay away from this club for a while!

"There was no doubt about the game. The referee conducted himself right. He was a little bit concerned about the ground being only partially lit, but at the end we needed to get the game going and the supporters demanded that.

"It probably changed the game a little bit at one point."

Hull, who remain 18th - one point and one place behind West Ham - host West Brom in their next fixture next Saturday.