Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Fulham FC – FA Cup - Wednesday 8th February 2023 - KO 19:45

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smithy in nl said:
We were superb tonight imo, ref was weak as piss, getting a bit pissed off how we never get **** all, but proud that the lads don’t act like bitches like the rest of the footballing world rolling around at every opportunity.
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Fulham were an absolute embarrassment with the time wasting, even started in the first half!

Something needs to be done about it throughout the leagues as the players know fine well there will be no consequences most of the time.

Other than that I thought we were superb once we stopped giving them too much respect. Lads can be proud of that performance.
 
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Proud.



It was a bit of a slow start, we were sloppy on the ball and kept giving it away in our own half and they punished us. A good finish unfortunately. We rallied and stayed in it and I think the noise from the crowd said it all that we all felt we'd have a spell. After the half hour we settled and started to play through and around them. Its a feature without a striker that we've nobody who fancies taking a chance and pulling the trigger which is frustrating at times but we get in good areas.



Second half we started better and the key moment of the tie is the one where we absolutely carve them open and its cleared off the line from Amads shot. Two mins later they make it 2-0. Still, heads didn't drop and we kept trying to play. On the night they showed their quality and were able to pick us off but I never felt out the game. Credit as we scored two very good goals and kept a top half PL side honest.



On to Saturday.
 
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Essayyeffcee said:
Didn't you hear Mowbray's pre-match press conference? O'Nien is trying to become Stewart's replacement! :emoticon-0105-wink:
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I did yeah 15 goals a season guaranteed apparently haha. Fair play to him he's not shy.

To be fair if we did want a physical player upfront to hold the ball up and defend from the front he's probably the best we've got after Gelhardt.
 
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John Wick said:
I honestly didn't realise that Dan James was playing for Fulham until their 3rd goal went in and they were celebrating down in front of where I sit. I hate Dan James like.
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I watched it on tv and had no idea he either played for them or was on the pitch at any point. Guess the Man United move didn't work out then.
 
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C Montgomery Burns said:
My take on their goals is similar.

First goal came very early, knocked us back and gave them the opportunity to control the game for half an hour. Personally I think Patterson should have done better. Yes, it came through a crowd of players and he saw it late, but it wasn't placed right in the corner or hit with a load of pace, and he did get his hand to it. I think he could have done better and kept it out.

Second goal is sloppy, Neil didn't track Mitrovitch back as well as he should, letting him get into the box, but despite Danny Gabbidon raving about his pass, it was just a punt into the box as it just looped right for him after good goalkeeping from Patterson. A scrappy goal, just after we'd had a few great chances to equalise, especially Amad being cleared off the line.

But we didn't give up and scored a great goal from Clarke to get us back in it. Something we in general and he in particular had tried a few times but not had the luck with.

Their third is another scrappy one. We should have got it properly clear about 3 times before a hopeful header goes to their player to lash in from close range. That said, when you see the replay on TV, he slices his shot, so it wasn't a clean finish, but was close enough in for it to make no difference.

Our second goal is a lovely finish from Bennette, and we had a slice of luck with their defender falling over to give him the chance. Maybe that evens out one of theirs?

I do think we should have had a penalty. It may have been soft, but Mitrovitch made no attempt to play the ball and with that ref I think if it had been the other way round he'd have given them a penalty for something similar.

Overall, it's probably a fair result, they had enough chances in the first half to have been a couple of goals up before we got started. We finished the first half well and we're probably the better team in the second for good stretches, but their premier league quality and experience saw them through, but it was close.
I was disappointed in them, though, for the time wasting and delaying tactics they showed all through the game and the ref was enough of a knob to allow them to get away with it. And when you consider that in the starting 11 the 2 oldest players are Danny Batth (32) and Patrick Roberts (25), the rest being aged between 19 and 22, I think we have a lot to be proud of for giving Fulham a good run over both games
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Spot on, very good summary of tonights game
 
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This lis not a premiership team it is what we have built to survive the championship .we have competed agains the premiership and competed .wowwwww
 
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