Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v West Bromwich Albion - Tuesday 26th November 2024 - KO 20:00
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Opinions mate. I thought he was better than Watson and Wilson. Least he drove inside and kept the ball. Watson was genuinely so far out his depth, needs dropping back immediately. I am surprised how poor he was and the gap is massive.
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Mepo and Ballard were class with the former my MOTM again. Those 2 are promotion quality.
09 bench.
That’s not quite true mind. We had three very good chances which were marginally denied. Isidor offside by a hair, Roberts a whisker wide and Mowatt with the outrageous block from Rigg - and that’s just second half. It’s disappointing to not win that game given it was against a playoff contender and one of the better teams in the league, but they played backs to the wall and barely laid a glove on us. Feels like a lot of online safc fans are dropping their arses a bit tonight.
Everything is there. If we start creating chances again we’ll be fine the rest of the play was brilliant tonight. 2/3rds of the pitch
Massively but I also think people judge it on him being our boy wonder (who has been class this season)
I love rigg, I've said several times he's the best youngster I've ever seen at the club but he's off it at the minute. I don't mind him starting games but there's got to be times when he is brought off when he's not on it
He's only 17 so he will have plenty of poor games, so nothing wrong with the odd rest
I thought we contained them but didn't break them down well enough going forward.
Lots of fine lines and on the day performances .
Our corners were diabolical, think the best cross of the game was from O9 and then he was subbed
I thought he remained pretty effective all night tbh. I wouldn’t have been averse to him getting subbed to give us a bit of a different look, but it was far from the last few games where he’d have warranted the hook imo.
Its crazy how we all see things differently because i thought he was class tonight. For a 17 year old to have that ability the world is literally his Oyster now
I didn't think he was that poor, can still see he's not confident in the 1st team yet but only minutes on the pitch will improve that. Thought the last 10 minutes of the 1st half he showed his ability but then 2nd half there was nothing
Will always be the issue when giving youngsters minutes, we saw it with rigg n jobe last season, sometimes worth it for the longer term success - the key of course is to make sure it doesn't massively impact short term success
Roberts had his usual game, busy but nothing to show for it. Needs taking off all set piece duties unless he hits a run of form.
Definitely an area we should be looking to improve on in January.
I think Roberts is a major issue for us. I just don't see what he offers currently, Mayenda out of position on Saturday was just as good if not better than what Roberts has produced for the last 18 months or so to be honest. He's not even committing players anymore. Styles was so comfortable it was unreal.
Either give Mayenda a run on the right or look for an upgrade in January.
Either give Mayenda a run on the right or look for an upgrade in January.
Def agree with your last sentence, he will go and play champions league football in the future
It was his touch tonight, it was sloppy, he wasn't moving the ball quickly enough, struggled to find space to get on the half turn, movement in box was sluggish
But agree it's all about opinions, that's what makes football great we all see the game differently
Agree mate. My patience with Roberts has ran out now
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Agree. He needs to be off the bench. The entire left side was abysmal for long periods this game.
Frustrating, but they where very well organised.
Thought we missed 09 breaking from centre back into midfield with the ball, Roberts had one of those frustrating nights where he ran into corners
Special mention to the misery behind me who is back to his usual slag everyone off all game
Thought we missed 09 breaking from centre back into midfield with the ball, Roberts had one of those frustrating nights where he ran into corners
Special mention to the misery behind me who is back to his usual slag everyone off all game
Wingers and CM is the big area of improvements for me in Jan, I'd love a really exciting young RB as well. Similar to what we did with mundle last jan, sign him with the future in mind