Those of a Sunderland persuasion could not fail to be upset and feel empathy for Wilson Isidor after the final whistle at Turf Moor. The Black Cats players and supporters quickly rallied around their centre-forward to try and pick him up from the hurt of missing two penalties in the final 10 minutes of the game.

He should have won the game for his team and he knew it. There have been plenty of opinions raised as to whether he should have been allowed to take the second penalty given he looked distraught after the first miss.

But there’s no turning back and what’s done is done. My argument has always been that I believe Isidor is a striker who can score goals, rather than a goalscorer, and I still stand by that. Which sounds slightly mad given he has scored eight goals this season and was touted by Portsmouth boss John Mousinho as being the best in the Championship.

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He has scored a couple of poacher’s goals but here is a man who seems to miss more than he scores. We’ll come to the penalties later, including the reaction of Patrick Roberts and Eliezer Mayenda in particular when Isidor his second one saved.

But early in the second half there was an example of just why Isidor needs to be better. New signing Enzo Le Fee skipped past his man magnificently down the left and looked up before whipping in a delicious ball around the back of the Burnley defence into Isidor’s path.

It needed a clever finish but, after taking a touch to set himself up, right in front of goal inside the box, Isidor lashed across the ball and it flew off the outside of the post to safety. Le Fee had been the sculptor, carving out a thing of beauty, only for Isidor to try finishing it off using a sledgehammer.

Those are the opportunities any striker worth his salt should be gobbling up, let alone the man labelled the best. Isidor’s got previous for trying to leather the ball as hard as he can, with the ball flying into the crowd. In fact he did it in the first half against Burnley, controlling well before slicing across a smashed effort into the stand. It’s a bit like watching a darts player set up a nine-dart finish only to close his eyes and then attempt to hit the double as if he was hurling a spear.

It’s almost like Isidor is trying too hard, and panicking at the wrong moment. As for the penalties, after the first miss his face was creased in pain even a couple of minutes later. He was not in the right frame of mind to take the second and shouldn’t have been allowed to.

He’d even swiped at another chance in between spot kicks when the ball flew wildly over the bar. When the second kick was saved, Roberts and Mayenda just stood motionless, not moving, as if they had feared the worst when Isidor stepped up.

Of course, anybody who volunteers to take a penalty in that pressure cooker of a situation should be applauded for having the bottle to do it. Let’s just hope Isidor is not scarred too much by the experience. It will be fascinating to see how he performs tomorrow against Derby, that is if Regis Le Bris believes he has recovered well enough from his obvious emotional trauma.