Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Preston North End – Monday 1st January 2024 - KO 12:30

Glad for Ba, hope the crowd cheer the kid on

 

Guess it will be Ba for Pritchard , who looks knackered (understandably)

 

Ba for Rusyn a strange one

 

Let Pritch get a bit of a rest before Saturday

 

Nope.. absolutely nothing. When he scores it means nout, when Pritchard scores he’s the saviour. Just something we’ll have to get used to!

 

What a game Dan Neil has had… great footballer

 

Jobe gone up top

 

What a defensive header whilst being fouled that was from Ballard

 

jobe down to walking pace up front and Pritch slowing down this could be a nervous few minutes

 

By the way, to a man the lads have been good today. Not perfect, but certainly very good.

 

Incredibly versatile young lad ...

... brilliant from our recruitment team.

He'll soon be worth more than we've paid for the whole squad, perhaps already is.

 

Surprised Pritchard is still wide would’ve made sense for him to play the middle and Ba/Pembele over the right surely

 

Birmingham letting him go, whether he wanted to leave or not, will forever be a mystery to me

 

Good defending from Ballard (again) and Pembele

 

Aouchiche on for Pritchard now feels an obvious sub

 

Ballard is our future captain. Beast with flair.

 

Yep same here, pritchard been ineffective this half as we cant get him the ball

 

Well played by Luke.

 

well done MR Beale

 

All round been quite poor second half looks like a real lack of energy nobody really pushing forward when we’ve won the ball back. O’nien done great winning that back on the right hand side and nobody bothered pushing up