Sunderland post match thread

Some excitement at the end. My 7 year old nephew enjoyed himself when we equalised and almost nicked it at the end. Was impressed again by Jovetic and will be looking forward to seeing him next season.

You cant win em all.

The atmosphere is a conundrum. When we were pressing at the end and the crowd was up for it you can see the lift it gives the players. The 80 minutes of groans and moaning at any misplaced pass that preceded that certainly did not help. The south stand was much improved after a half time top up. I suggest they give free beer to the singing sections.
 
Jovetic showed how good he is when he came on. Problem is, the person who would have benefitted most from Jovetic was taken off for him.

Aguero was dying for some decent service. Milner and Nasri were shockingly bad and Negredo didnt provide anything more.

Worrying that Pellegrini couldnt see this. He should have changed Negredo for Jovetic and then subbed Aguero 10/15 mins later for Dzeko.
 
Tron Coltrane said:
Blue Is the Opposite of Blue said:
Tonight was the final nail in what has been a terrible end to the season.

As little as two months ago there was talk of a quadruple - but a lack of belief, a removal of all urgency and a plague of muscle injuries have ended this season for good now. Aguero wasn't fit and hasn't been since Spurs away (our last fantastic performance), Negredo's shoulder has been in an invisible sling since the League Cup semi-final and Zabaleta's very gradual tiredness has come about because Richards isn't fit enough. All of this has contributed to a very thin squad getting exactly what it was coming to it: diminuendo.

But that's not all. I've stood by him all season when the arrows have been flying towards him, but Pellegrini got it wrong tonight and has taken our title chances down with him. Leaving Silva out tonight wasn't down to Pellegrini just needing to learn about English football, it was down to him underestimating Sunderland and nothing more. Silva has been our best player for the best part of 6 weeks now - perhaps even the best part of 3 years if you want to look at the bigger picture - but he was left out of the picture completely. And no surprise, as sure as night follows day, a City team without Silva looked like a bunch of strangers in a silent room.

We were unlucky not to win at the very end of the game - and had Nasri's chance not been spooned over the bar from an almost unforgivable distance we'd be back on course for the title - but between minute number 3 and minute number 87 we were nowhere to be found. Kompany wasn't fit, Nasri was anonymous, Milner was a disaster, Aguero was unfit, Negredo was average and Zabaleta, understandably, looked knackered. All key players, all not ready for the fight for one reason or another.

I'm struggling to give a shit about how the season will pan out from this point on- as long as we finish in the top 3, which I'm sure we can, I won't be arsed either way. I just can't wait for the season to end, for the World Cup to start, and for the misery and depleted nature of this season's finale to become optimism and expectancy. I'm sick to the back teeth of watching injured, unfit players get thrown together because our squad either isn't big enough or our fitness experts are terrible at their jobs.

Fight to the end? Nah, I'd rather not waste my energy if the players don't want to.
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Out of curiosity, since Silva was left out of the squad due to injury, how exactly would you have explained to the player that you want him to play despite not being fit? How exactly was Pellegrini meant to handle that differently?

Not exactly bailing MP out of some serious fallibility from today's game, but playing god and healing the wounded certainly aren't part of my expectations for him.
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I didn't know Silva was injured at all. I've been away from most communications for the last 48 hours so it must have slipped by me. I saw Stuart Brennan say Silva was simply "left out" and nothing more before I went to the game but assumed it was just a case of resting him.

In that case, I'll retract that entire paragraph apart from the last line. Why do our players suddenly lose their ability to play confident link-up play when Silva isn't around? Nasri, Aguero and Milner are all skillful players in their own right, and yet it seems they were all blindfolded before tonight's game. Until Jovetic came on not one player was interested in picking the ball up from deep and moving towards Sunderland's goal. Why wasn't Nasri eager to drop deep and support the obviously knackered Fernandinho? The amount of times that Javi Garcia ended up isolated with three Sunderland players was down to Fernandinho pushing forward, and yet nobody felt like filling in. The way our entire midfield falls apart when Silva isn't there to hold their hand is mindblowing. They're grown men and professional footballers, for god's sake.
 
Is it me or has anybody mentioned Yaya? I have a feeling that he is not respected enough, he is the player that compensated for Agueros injury. He ALWAYS scores the most important goals in the season but I guess it is not at the right time for most people to notice. Played few minutes against Liverpool, lost the game, did not play lost against Sunderland. He is the most important player bar none.
 
Eccles Blue said:
Cheadle Blue said:
Eccles Blue said:
Throwing money at it is not the way to build a successful team. We already have the players, why does everyone always go on about spending money? A couple of weeks ago this team were being lauded on here. A couple of mediocre matches & suddenly they are a third division side! Fickle fans.

We're Man City we fight to the end, the Boys in Blue never give in!!
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looked like we did tonight
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Without wanting to sound contentious if they had given in we would have lost 1-2! :-)
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And we could have scored through Nasri, last minute.

Everyone blaming the players lacking passion but where was the passion from the fans ? I will say the South stand tried to lift things mid way through the second and it was slightly better than previous games and no one was really getting on the players backs, however. the atmosphere was completely flat, like an end of season nothing game. People showing real passion on here but where was it at the game ? Why do we make it sound like it doesn't matter, then you come on here and it really does ?

Why !? You can imagine the players having come back from the cauldron at Anfield at the weekend, fresh in their minds, and then run out to our fans and a flat atmosphere. It must be so deflating.

Of course they are playing for themselves but having 47,000 fans roaring you on can give you the lift when you need it. When will our fans realise that we can play our part too ?
 
Henry Chinaski said:
The crowd was shite tonight. A game we needed to win and there was nothing. They scored with ten minutes to go and it emptied. Those of you that left, you are a disgrace.
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It was the same in 2010 when Crouch scored on the 84th minute. I would say 17000 people stood up and fucked off!

A lot of our crowd are as gutless as some of the players.
 
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