Sunderland Match Thread

[Johnny]

Keeper is soooooooooooo lucky.

[tomasjj]

unfortunate for torres. anyway, great half. I'm pleased for momo but I still think Xabi Alonso needs to be dropped for some games.

Sigh.
Whose pass was instrumental in setting up the goal?

Enjoy the game, mate...

[spud_gun]

12 months ago this game would have been 0-0 at half time.


Torres & Voronin must be a nightmare for any defence. Continual movement and not afraid to mix it up. Quality.

[The Glove]

They are going to come out and rough us up big time in the first 10 minutes. Sail thru that storm and we'll win at a canter.

[Biff]

I've noticed the ball seems to be holding up quite a bit...get the impression they've let the grass grow to stop our passing and are hoping to rely on Chopra's pace for a long ball over the top.


Nonetheless whilst not looking anything special we've coped well and are in front.

Two good saves from their keeper at the start and end of the half....we've need to start putting those sorts of chances away.

[Robster007]

Came into it well in the latter part of the half.

[paulcooper4]

1st half report :

Sunderland are the most physical team in this league id say and will beat a lot of teams at home through there sheer brute force. We met this head on yet still managed to keep our football going in the face of some psychotic sunderland charges.

Was only a matter of time before we got the breakthrough and now weve got it the chances will come even more.

Overall a very good away performance in a stadium that many other teams will struggle in this season.

[CAD]

Impressive stats 7-1 in shots to us. Amazing but you gotta wonder about the real strength of Sunderland. Are they this years watford?

[Kenneth]

They are going to come out and rough us up big time in the first 10 minutes. Sail thru that storm and we'll win at a canter.

if they don't score early, we could score a few more here.

[ningnangnong]

Carragher and Finnan need to stop hoofing it.

Hopefully we continue on as we were in the last ten minutes of that half, because everything before it was dire IMO.

Need to get Babel some more ball.

[JohnDoe]

Pennant is superb. Sissoko has improved going forward a lot, and I'm ignoring the goal. Voronin and Torres are looking dangerous.

Alonso has been being tightly marked, so our passing game has suffered, wise decision by Keane.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Gotta give Sunderland credit, they really do work hard.

But that could lead to them tiring in the last half hour, especially as they'll have to chase the game.

Torres really does look a threat in all departments.

[cobain]

Sigh.
Whose pass was instrumental in setting up the goal?

Enjoy the game, mate...

I'm saying that he needs to be dropped because he is a liability! He looses the ball inside our own half too much and that sure can't be good.

[redlancer]

unfortunate for torres. anyway, great half. I'm pleased for momo but I still think Xabi Alonso needs to be dropped for some games.

so who would of passed the ball for pennant that led up to the goal?

Very impressed with Torres looks made for the PL.

Pennant having a good game even if he did trow in to our 12th man.

Arebola looks so good on the ball.

Very happy a hard working sunderland side in front of thier fans and we're matching them with passion and our quality is starting to show

[Marky]

Great to see Momo score his first for the goal great strike to boot.

As the half wore on Pennant got better and better, keep it lit lad, you have that Wallace ****ting bricks every time you're on the ball.

Xabi starting to find his range.

Torres and Veronin working hard and looking lively, both unlukcy not to score.
Torres's touch needs to be a bit better though.

Early goal in 2nd half and we'll be cruising.