Flocking to Twitter, these Sunderland fans seemed less than impressed with the performance of defender Denver Hume against Manchester United's Under-21s in the Papa John's Trophy on Wednesday night.

Lee Johnson's side, looking to retain the cup they won last season, have now secured qualification from Group F as they narrowly beat the Red Devils 2-1 yesterday evening.

Tyrese Dyce opened the scoring for Sunderland on Wearside but it didn't take long for the visitors to draw level again through United youngster Zidane Iqbal.

Alas, just under ten minutes later, The Black Cats regained control of the contest with Stephen Wearne getting in on the act - a strike which eventually guided Sunderland through the group stage with a game to spare.

However, on what was a solid evening, one man who didn't impress supporters was Hume - with the 23-year-old losing possession 17 times and losing more than half of his ground duels (SofaScore).

Here's what Sunderland supporters had to say on the left-back as they took to social media.

Sunderland fans slam Hume...

"Hume looks like he’s just not trying to actually run when we need to defend"

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"Hume is even out of his depth at this level, he is totally useless. Gives the ball away at this level at an alarming rate. Should not be anywhere near 1st team squad."

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"All Hume does is play the team into trouble time after time."

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"Denver Hume is even out of his depth against Man Utd youngens. He is absolutely dink. He'd struggle in non-league he would"

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"I’d very much like to never seen him in a Sunderland shirt ever again, please and thank you"

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"Things I learnt tonight watching our kids vs there kids. Denver Hume is a million miles away from Dennis Cirkin, Dyce looks a better back up to Cirkin, thought he was brilliant tonight. Don’t get the fuss or hype over losing Hugill, thought he was ok tonight but nowt special"

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