Sunderland at home Wednesday 3rd December at 815pm

[Exiled_red]

I find the Isak situation really odd, he played 86mins and barely touched the ball. I know he's an out and out forward / goalscorer,but at Newcastle when I saw them he did at least also seem involved in build up play.

Clearly he not fully fit and needs some minutes to gain fitness but given how Ekitike started to season giving Isak 86mins and Ekitike 20mins is baffling. I guess that it will benefit Isak and the club later in the season, but probably not as much as winning games now and building confidence

[danperkins]

oh that

He was a fair way from the play to be fair. Think he thought it went the other side of the flag

I got angry initially because every second counts and we were chasing the win but then I burst out laughing

[danperkins]

I find the Isak situation really odd, he played 86mins and barely touched the ball. I know he's an out and out forward / goalscorer,but at Newcastle when I saw them he did at least also seem involved in build up play.

Clearly he not fully fit and needs some minutes to gain fitness but given how Ekitike started to season giving Isak 86mins and Ekitike 20mins is baffling. I guess that it will benefit Isak and the club later in the season, but probably not as much as winning games now and building confidence

He was the focal point, lighting quick wingers pumping balls into the box for him & midfielders grabbing possession and looking for him straight away in the channels and behind opposition defence & surely that's exactly why we bought him, same why we had our reasons to buy Wirtz & the same why we had our reasons to buy Kerkez.... because we valued the particular way they played the game.

I've given him, Wirtz and Kerkez a bit of stick for being a bit ****. Wirtz looks weak as piss, Isak has looked a bit lazy & Kerkez headless since they joined but I think we might have to see how they perform under the next guy because everyone just can't play abysmal at same time & guys have gone form world class or top class to looking like they've never kicked a ball before, it doesn't add up & it's clearly a systemic issue that Slot genuinely doesn't look like he knows how to solve.

[vlahka]

I wonder if sunderland will rest all the players who got multiple concussions during the match.