Match Thread | Sunderland vs. Manchester City (01/01/26)

[I'm Blue]

A bit meh so far. But there's still the second half to go, and I still believe we'll get the job done. Now; Im just off to make a cup of coffee.....

I’m gonna join you in being a happy clapper.
It’s still 0-0 ; )

 

[Banshee]

Shirt pulling tossers

 

[MCFC1993]

Typical away game, never easy.

I'm confident we'll get chances but need to sort things out in the final third.

 

[christened at st marks]

center of defense are too slow and will be caught out

 

[burning blue soul]

Teams use wrestling rules against us with the approval of the refs.
It's not subtle, it's not hidden; it's fucking blatant!!

 

[eastmanc]

Quite enjoyed that so far...

They've gone early, turned it into a proper physical battle. We've stood up to it so far. As long as we don't do anything daft, should put them away once they begin to tire.

City have to be stronger get Doku on for Sav.

 

[wolviedinho]

So should we, Haaland didn’t bother with the shot

Expected from us. We have let Sunderland run riot at times.

 

[Eaststander1]

Piss poor from City that was, nothing good to say about it ..... Haaland should have buried that chance too.

 

[deano ou812]

Bar first ten minutes it’s been awful from us Sunderland have played well and been physical which we don’t seem to like,hopefully pep changes it but get the feeling he’ll tell them go and make amends for the first half..

 

[waspish]

Once we get Doku on the left and Savino on the right it will give them something to worry about

 

[Gazza]

Getting outmuscled every time. We know Sunderland are a physical side who press up and down the pitch. City, to be fair, have not really turned up. However, far be it to criticise Harland but he should have buried that chance

Hopefully they'll burn themselves out on 70 min or earlier if we score first.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Trash opening 45 mins…again. We do absolutely everything in slow motion.

No idea what Ake is doing on the field, unfortunately neither does he, because he is all over the fucking show.

Gonzales needs to stop taking 15 touches when 1 would do the job. He sees so much of the ball and does fucking nothing with it. There’s got to be more to his game, than holding on to it for 20 seconds, not once getting his head up and then passing to Dias?

Front players have been extremely disappointing. Savinho the most promising but then you quickly remember that once he gets in these good positions, the end product is non-existent.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Shite game to watch so far.

 

[RobinHood]

Shirt pulling tossers

This. Constantly.

 

[.db.]

Cherki has done fuck all

He put Foden in to create the one chance we’ve created all game. But that’s been it. Other than that one move, none of our players have done anything.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Quite enjoyed that so far...

They've gone early, turned it into a proper physical battle. We've stood up to it so far. As long as we don't do anything daft, should put them away once they begin to tire.

We are the tired team though.

 

[Ivan Lentil]

Rode out the storm and could’ve led had we been a bit sharper in the box

They’ll tire, I’d be surprised if we didn’t win this.

 

[Norbert D]

Hopefully these dirty twats will tire, but we have been weak.oddly enough our back four have done well, and of course Donna. Savinho offers nothing, zilch. Silva gets into good positions but won’t shoot, that said it took PIGMOL a long time to find him offside, ones that tend to go in the attackers favour.

 

[MellowJoe]

I feel out of breath watching that and I'm only sat on the couch

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

Not surprised we are playing poorly bearing in mind according to the commentary team we are facing a team that is a cross between prime Brazil and prime Barcelona.