Sunderland post match thread

Interesting start:

Positives

Got the win
No injuries
Stones looks quality
Sterling looks refreshed and confident
Pep looking to think outside the box
Kun of to a flyer
Good possession
Good bench
Moyes gutted

Negatives

Merlin losing a bit of his magic
Massive vote of no confidence in Joe
We have one sufficient defender at the club
I would fear for us with less possession against a good side (derby!!)
Kelechi is obviously going to be used sparingly again this season
We have some very similar players at the club
 
Had to laugh.
Missed the game, as I'd committed myself to cricket umpiring. Afterwards I went to a 50th birthday party, and heard around 5 or 6 positive descriptions of Sterling, Kolarov, innovative tactics, performance, possession etc etc.
Then I got home and watched the 3 minute MOTD highlights which seemed to imply that Sunderland absolutely battered us.
 
simon23 said:
Tried to post this after the game yesterday but it didnt work.

Thought some of our passing out from the back and our build up play was outstanding yesterday. Just lacked a bit of real cutting edge with a couple of players obvioisly short of match practise (notably kdb and nolito).

Stones was immense and something that hasnt been noticed was his dominance in the air (though he was playing against defoe who is pretty short). Next to vinnie or even otto we are going to look more solid as i think defensively we werent tested that much snd when we were we were a bit jittery but with kompnany or otto back there plus with practise it will come.....

Attack wise just a bit rusty at times but the work ethic from the players and the pressing was phenominal. Worry a bit about kun and his hamstring doing all that but nothing can be done about that.

Sterling was outstanding and you can see that pep has given him confidence just to run at players again and not to worry if it doesnt come off.

Against better teams we will need to improve esp defensively but i think that will come with practise. Dihno was outstanding...all over the pitch. Sometimes collecting the ball between the two centre halves , closing down in midfield. The full backs pushing up and inside was very noteable which helped gain control of the midfield central area.

The amazing thing is that i think pep wont play like that every week and he will change it dependant upon who we are playing (hopefully) but there were some amazingly encouraging signs there from huge parts of the game
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This is how i saw the match also, we can only get a real test in matches that count like this, Pep will do more refining, deciding xyz player is better doing abc etc etc but pretty soon it will have clicked enough to see teams running after shadows for the most part. Also a few players need to get up to speed, Kun for example was a bit off the boil, tried but it just was not his day.
 
ShieldsBlackCat said:
Aww, don't be like that. Please. I thought our two respective fan bases had a good rapport ;-(. I am more than happy with having Manchester City FC as my second team. Your a club who has come from a bad time. You are self made. You haven't always been the club you are now. You weren't born with that silver spoon in your mouth. I can assure you we won't score many goals this season. We have to take any tiny morsel of success when it happens. Moyes and the team hardly covered themselves in glory. This does not give me much confidence for the rest of the season.

I wasn't there and only listened on the radio but that said I thought your keeper did well and the new signings of course seemed to gel well with more to come. Nolito was mentioned an awful lot in commentary so I assume he did well. Jesus Navas I thought caused us problems.
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Ignore comments like that pal. City and Sunderland get on well in my book. One of only two other sets of fans I like.

I never understand when people say the opposition fans celebrated too much, I mean come on whoever said that ffs! That's what should happen!
 
ShieldsBlackCat said:
Like I said I wasn't at the game but if the Sunderland fans did then I don't understand why they did it. I thought from listening to the game Sterling did good and was a threat. A team like ours is never going to live with someone of his level. Maybe it is his performances in the Euro's.
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Hi bud, could you do us one favour and ask your board why they insist to buy utd's dross xD Honest it must be proper annoying for you as it winds me up and i don't even havean interest in it really. Also how is Moyes perceived in general in mackem land bud, not really had much chance to see what shape other teams are in generally.
 
The BBC feed kept analysing Pep's tactics. I can't remember ever seeing that before. I just hope every journo doesn't try to display their supreme knowledge by over analysing everything and ruining our game plan!
 
ShieldsBlackCat said:
Like I said I wasn't at the game but if the Sunderland fans did then I don't understand why they did it. I thought from listening to the game Sterling did good and was a threat. A team like ours is never going to live with someone of his level. Maybe it is his performances in the Euro's.
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Loads of 'hilarious' tweets into BBC about how Sterling had done more in 4 mins by winning that penalty than he did in 270 at the Euros.
Other than the penalty he won inside 5 mins against Iceland of course...
Love how people have selective memories when trying to be funny
 
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