Sunderland Post Match

Dribble said:
What I saw was a predictable pattern which has characterised the last 2-3 seasons. Yaya in a midfield 2, Silva marooned on the left and the left back left exposed. Fat Sam predicted it beforehand and my Dipper mate was amazed I was able to predict our line up and formation to within one player as would most City fans.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, but there's no need really as I already know how many games we've played recently, who's injured etc. To illustrate this we brought on extra muscle in the midfield to help out a beleaguered Yaya and Fernandinho. It was obvious to me before a ball was kicked that we needed we needed to be strong in midfield and down the flanks because as you say, it was a midweek match in windy conditions away from home against a team desperate to avoid relegation.

If this was just a one off then fine, but this season especially its become the rule rather than the exception. We just seem to be making harder work of it than necessary and last night perfectly illustrated why. The Premier League has always been strong, none more so than this season so I don't expect any easy games, what I will say though is that with the talent available to us would you say that we have been performing to an expected level and if so where and when?
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And yet we won. Did you predict that as well to your Dipper friend? Than l can see why he is impressed with your glass bowl.
 
eversince 76 said:
And yet we won. Did you predict that as well to your Dipper friend? Than l can see why he is impressed with your glass bowl.
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No I didn't predict anything as I wasn't sure or the outcome as opposed to Saturday. When I saw the line up versus Villa, I just knew we'd win not because we had all our best players available, but because we played the players picked in their strongest positions. It's simple really.

Also you didn't answer the question I posed, I'd be interested in hearing your views.
 
Poor performance. Very disappointing seen as we've looked like we'd turned the corner recently but manager and players making the same mistakes again, but we got the win (mostly down to Otamendi and Hart) so all eyes on Saturday now
 
Thought we worked very hard and battled and defended well, but we should of known what to expect from Sunderland and we had no answer to their work-rate and aggression. Thought Sunderland played well and that's exactly what they need to do every single game if they want a chance of staying up. As for us, we need to be able to control games better when we play against teams like that. Our passing goes to utter shit when we are pressed hard on the ball and i couldn't believe the amount of times we gave the ball away and dropped deeper and deeper.

Cracking 3 points and sets us up for Saturday.
 
Kinkys Left Foot said:
3 games in 7 days and we looked tired and didn't play to our optimum against a team who haven't played competitively for 10 days in the shittest weather away from home against a team scrapping for their lives you say. Why would that be then....

This game will be forgotten if we win the title never mind the performance. All about the points tonight and we grabbed all 3.
Well done boys.
Some clueless fannies on here tonight as usual.
City fans my arse some of them!
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Absolutely spot on. Let's not forget three players making their first team debut and a ref seemingly determined to help the mackems anyway he could.

How on earth defoe didn't get carded for one of those two elbows is beyond me. Dangerous and disgusting challenges. He had no way of winning those headers but instead decides to throw his elbow across the faces of our two defenders. Thank God they didn't suffer any other serious injury.

If refs in our games continue to turn a blind eye to such challenges it's only a matter of time before one of our players suffer a horrific injury. In fact it's already happened with us losing de bruyne as funes mori's challenge went completely unpunished - had he not dragged de bruyne back he would never have gone over on his leg.

Getting mightily sick of this biased refereeing.
 
Sunderland were all out to save their PL lives.
We looked tired, nervous, and worried about injuries (as you'd expect).

When you combine the two, you get last night's performance. But a win is a win and we've lost similar games before now.
 
Dribble said:
What I saw was a predictable pattern which has characterised the last 2-3 seasons. Yaya in a midfield 2, Silva marooned on the left and the left back left exposed. Fat Sam predicted it beforehand and my Dipper mate was amazed I was able to predict our line up and formation to within one player as would most City fans.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, but there's no need really as I already know how many games we've played recently, who's injured etc. To illustrate this we brought on extra muscle in the midfield to help out a beleaguered Yaya and Fernandinho. It was obvious to me before a ball was kicked that we needed we needed to be strong in midfield and down the flanks because as you say, it was a midweek match in windy conditions away from home against a team desperate to avoid relegation.

If this was just a one off then fine, but this season especially its become the rule rather than the exception. We just seem to be making harder work of it than necessary and last night perfectly illustrated why. The Premier League has always been strong, none more so than this season so I don't expect any easy games, what I will say though is that with the talent available to us would you say that we have been performing to an expected level and if so where and when?
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The number of times we've had to make a substitution at half time this season to compensate for the inadequacies of the initial set up, speaks volumes. Pellers has shown himself to be a top bloke, but from a footballing point of view I can't wait til Pep gets here and lights a few fires under a few arses
 
Three games in six days versus a rested team fighting for their PL lives. It is no surprise we were outplayed throughout the second half!

We've seen how Stoke and Liverpool have faltered since the League Cup semi final but somehow we are not allowed to be tired or injured lol!

If we are there or there abouts when Nasri and De Bruyne return, last night could out to be the most important three points of the season.
 
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