Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Stoke City FC – Saturday 11th January 2025 - KO 15:00

Missing jobe in the middle, think we'll see subs at half time

 

Touchline makes it much easier to defend him.

 

hes the dan neil replacement

 

Dan Neil has done everything he can to ensure a debut for Samed.

 

some captaincy that

 

Can tell we have made a load of changes. Been flat and disjointed. See what the second half brings.

 

Want Mayenda centrally. Not sure who we'd bring on out wide but he's offering zero from the wide area.

 

Great skill from Riggy

 

Aleksic on the left adil on the right maybe? Neither is ideal but not blessed with options I’m
Fine with us using this to experiment to be honest

 

Think O'Nien should score there. Free header.

 

Put Rigg out there I think. He's going to have to play there at times this season to keep getting plenty of minutes and he has the skill to create.

 

. definitely. Was over it too.

 

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So far so good. No injuries.

 

Not that bad but gave ourselves a mountain to climb early on.

 

Have we ever beaten Mark Robins as a manager?

 

Think we’ve actually done well considering the changes

first 15 ish we were pretty poor but after that have played well. Would be a different story had Connolly slotted in Mayenda when he broke and if Mayenda passed to AA

not keen on Connolly on his own

jones couple nice choices but doesn’t look up to it to me

couple silly decisions but for a rotated side against a full strength Stoke I think we’ve done well

 

So far in the Premier League v Championship games it's 13-4 to the Premier League with Plymouth being the only team not behind in 6 ties (currently 0-0).

Pretty ominous about the gap between the leagues that.

 

Second best but we can still turn it around