Sunderland post match thread

[Esteban de la Sexface]

We've got the same amount of points from Sunderland as we did in 2012. These bastards always raise it for us.

They kicked lumps out of City for an hour... City stilled played like it was a game of 5 a side. Arrogance was our downfall. City played for 5 minutes at the end and should have scored twice.

We've got no one to blame but ourselves if we don't win the title. Our players need to learn that the physical battle must be joined and won before you earn the right to play football.

 

[jaiguruKun]

I know Silva has an ankle problem but surely it would have made sense to have him on the bench just in case?

Sunderland were the better side in the first half and we were lucky to be 1--0 up at half-time. We needed to make at least one sub at half time to try and change the pattern of the game.

Pellegrini needs to be much more pro-active in his management of games rather than just waiting for things to go wrong before changing things.