Sunderland (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Eaststander1]

If they all played as well as Nunes tonight, we'd have won that match

It was missing chances Joe that cost us dearly .... Nunes was only average at best.

Gvardiol and Rodri did well when they came on.

 

[TheBlueCat]

It’s tough to win every game. We could have been better but we did ok . We move on imo :)

 

[wahablue]

Foden was shit ,didn’t,t chase down any opposition player ,all he does is dance,lack of effort,won’t get a tackle in.Hope Rodri has no injuries.he was superb.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Loooool. What a flake, giving up now

I was thinking. Why don't we all just meet in the etihad car park at full time after games and have a good ruck. No knives or glass bottles but chains, hammers pick axes and knuckle dusters allowed. At least it would save our fingers, thumbs & brain cells from getting tired with all this typing.

 

[warringtonblue]

You are like a broken fucking record.. Sav should have scored yeah he should.. But he did well beating the full back.. Shame no fucker tried to get on the end of anything..
Same with Doku.. Beats the man but can't find a man.. Either it's the players in the box or it's the wingers fault.

Its no good putting balls in where you expect players to be, its much better looking and finding them.

 

[how soon is now]

Hell of a place to go , Sunderland played like their lives depended on it and fans screaming for everything even pinching one yard at a throw in ! City of 2/3 years ago would still have put them to bed but not quite there yet and to be fair it wasn't a bad team we're trying to match is it.

 

[OB1]

Won on xG. Something like 0.8 - 2.3 according to the BBC match stats

Not big fan of xG but it does support the idea that we should have won; should ain’t much use when didn’t - marks for effort rather than achievement.

 

[wattle]

Disgusting lack of effort from Haaland and Foden tonight. Better second half overall from City and good to see Rodri get through 45 minutes. Doku started well but faded badly. 4 points from Forest and Sunderland away in 5 days isn't too bad. Need to beat Chelsea and Brighton neither of which will be easy.
Donnarumma made some important saves and Gvardiol was our most potent attacking threat - which emphasises how poor Haaland, Foden and Cherki were tonight.

It wasn’t a lack of effort from Foden - he was just shit. Erling on the other hand! He’s been like this for 4 or 5 games. Don’t get it. Utter pointless when he goes through these spells. But the best in the world when he’s in a good spell. So suppose we need to take the rough with the smooth

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Yeah, let’s throw in a player from the start that’s coming back from a muscle injury and flog him to death.

That’s too much common sense!

 

[Norbert D]

In a way it was a carbon copy of the forest game but without the win. I just don’t see us being good enough at the moment. When you need a piece of magic every game sooner or later it doesn’t happen. In both games we got bullied and again always refuse to take a shot from outside the box. Anyway fuck it.

 

[Matt Diablo]

This Loss is on the players. Pep can’t be blamed one bit. He could’ve played TJ after 70 mins but we had 5 chances to score and failed to convert. Players like Savio are the perfect examples as to why a team struggles to dominate. He will never make it here. Semenyo can’t come soon enough. Possibly the worst I’ve seen Haaland and Foden play today since they’ve been here outside last season. It’s no longer in our hands. It’s now going to take a miracle to win the league from here on out. Arsenal aren’t laying down neither is a team with EIGHT key players out, worst performance of the season. Not much to say but learn from it and move on.

Give the ball to Cherki more, stop playing players that don’t bring anything to the team and bring our quality down. For instance. Ake x Dias x Donnarumma is the worst combo i can think of, there is less than 0 build up play there, Bernardo doesn’t do anything besides run, when he can’t run anymore just take him out. TJ might be poor but he’s the only player that runs off the ball and who can see his runs and acc pass him the ball ? CHERKI. If Foden can’t do anything then bring on Rico because he has a good relationship with everyone especially Haaland. There’s small tweaks that can make a chain reaction.


All hope is not lost. But this was a significant setback.


Really hope Nico G can get a good rest.

Didn't lose dickhead

 

[heslops barnet]

Half way through the season, plenty of games left….

Tarquins and City will drop more points - especially as CL gets going

 

[Lowtower]

I find it baffling that people actually believe that they didn’t try, couldn’t be arsed, or didn’t want to be there.

Morons mate

Too stupid to be allowed anywhere near a football forum

 

[tornandfrayed]

I find it baffling that people actually believe that they didn’t try, couldn’t be arsed, or didn’t want to be there.

They don't have a clue about the mindset necessary to teach the top in a high profile sport.

 

[Barcon]

Ref had a good game imo

Did a great job of letting them kick us off the park 1st half.

 

[Eaststander1]

We cannot win every game, but I'd watch that every day of the week.

Not sure I could, it was never a classic, just a scrappy battle lacking real quality .

But there always be goalless matches in football.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Reijnders is absolute dogshit

He did virtually nothing from the minute (85th) that he came on.

 

[Dodge]

I'm invoking the spirit of 11/12 and the 3-3 home draw against the Mackems. So, this might just be the point that wins us the title, on goal difference, again.

Good point, Rodders back, unbeaten run continues and we move on to Chavski.

Up the fucking Blues.

 

[paulsimpson]

Disgusting lack of effort from Haaland and Foden tonight. Better second half overall from City and good to see Rodri get through 45 minutes. Doku started well but faded badly. 4 points from Forest and Sunderland away in 5 days isn't too bad. Need to beat Chelsea and Brighton neither of which will be easy.
Donnarumma made some important saves and Gvardiol was our most potent attacking threat - which emphasises how poor Haaland, Foden and Cherki were tonight.

Foden covered massive ground and certain channels. He was excellent at tracking back so that they could not get through us every time they counter attacked. That's his role in these tight games. He will get better now that Rodri is coming back

 

[blue by birth]

Its no good putting balls in where you expect players to be, its much better looking and finding them.

Helps if players make a run though.. Erling didn't really make any runs to the near post.. It's a shame as both players tried to put it there..
Hopefully we beat Chavs and Brighton..