Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Aston Villa - Sunday 21st September 2025 - KO 14:00

[Sunders53]

We could have won that...
sending off, hmm, silly for sticking leg up Cash feigned a big injury cheat.

Cash goal 1st mistake.keeper has made, good shot.

We hit the bar as well.

Vile are poor

 

[Roker end 79]

5 points clear of relegation after 5 games. Would you settle for 5 points clear with 5 to play? Before a ball was kicked i would have took your arm off. Now im not so sure.

No 15 points clear

 

[Roker end 79]

We know the Swiss make excellent watches, the timing of the Xhaka header lay off excellent also.

Their cheeses aren't bad either

 

[Oliver's Army]

Shame that Rigg was the one to get hooked. I thought he looked very good

 

[Pure River Slut]

Their cheeses aren't bad either

Off to Zurich on the 4th. I’ll give you some scores.

 

[LD19SAFC]

Shame that Rigg was the one to get hooked. I thought he looked very good

He was excellent. Really felt for him, he wasn’t happy and rightly so

 

[Whittylad]

I don't think the ref had a good game today. Some of the decisions were terrible. That one when Mcginn threw himself down in the first half up towards the NE corner was laughable.

Aye because he was getting done for pace so hoyed himself to the ground. Farcical decision.

 

[Oliver's Army]

Couple off weeks for Diarra...

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[clockstander]

Shame that Rigg was the one to get hooked. I thought he looked very good

Shame that , he looked gutted going off, and he was doing more than Enzo at the time , but erring on experience was the wisest thing to do under the circumstances. He will realise that and soon get another chance in what is a very good team.

 

[CR17]

Couldn’t be prouder of those lads. Kept forgetting we had 10 men and that’s all you want to see!

The team spirit is unreal. Massive point.

Shame about Reinildo because I think we could have had 3 points with 11 men.

Mukiele is a ****ing monster

Talbi put in a great shift, thought he looked very confident going forward once he was on the left. Always works very hard off the ball

 

[C Montgomery Burns]

Right in front of the bench, 2 yards from the 4th official and VAR, no chance he was getting away with that. Shame because I thought he looked quite dangerous gping forward as well. Assume Masuaku will come straight in, but switching to a 3 with Talbi LWB wouldn't be a bad option either.

It's needless, which makes it so soft as a red card. A high or late tackle, a clumsy slide in or pull back, even picking up a second yellow, you can understand those. But a daft kick out like that? It's inviting the ref to send you off. The only things in his defense are that Cash was ridiculously late and made no attempt to get the ball, so should have been booked himself, the fact he isn't booked is poor from the ref and it looks worse in slow motion than in real life because there not a lot of force behind it. But it doesn't excuse the stupidity of doing it.

 

[RokerStoker]

Dan Ballard - absolute warrior!

 

[clockstander]

It's needless, which makes it so soft as a red card. A high or late tackle, a clumsy slide in or pull back, even picking up a second yellow, you can understand those. But a daft kick out like that? It's inviting the ref to send you off. The only things in his defense are that Cash was ridiculously late and made no attempt to get the ball, so should have been booked himself, the fact he isn't booked is poor from the ref and it looks worse in slow motion than in real life because there not a lot of force behind it. But it doesn't excuse the stupidity of doing it.

Absolutely big let down from him imo.

 

[Oliver's Army]

The skipper.....

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[WorkyTicketFTM]

Our game plan when we went down 0-1 is also worth mentioning. I’ve never seen us press like that probably ever. Coordinated pressing, every player knew their role. Xhaka closing down Martinez at times and I remember at one point Xhaka was chasing the ball down from their defenders and he looked like he wanted to ****ing clatter one of them. That’s the kind of mentality that will keep us up this season and bringing in some big bastards like Mukiele, Alderete and Geertruida will help our cause. We were causing chaos from set pieces and again I’ve never seen us do that, ever.

 

[Jarca]

Our game plan when we went down 0-1 is also worth mentioning. I’ve never seen us press like that probably ever. Coordinated pressing, every player knew their role. Xhaka closing down Martinez at times and I remember at one point Xhaka was chasing the ball down from their defenders and he looked like he wanted to ****ing clatter one of them. That’s the kind of mentality that will keep us up this season and bringing in some big bastards like Mukiele, Alderete and Geertruida will help our cause. We were causing chaos from set pieces and again I’ve never seen us do that, ever.

The new set piece coach should benefit us massively this season

 

[Oliver's Army]

Our game plan when we went down 0-1 is also worth mentioning. I’ve never seen us press like that probably ever. Coordinated pressing, every player knew their role. Xhaka closing down Martinez at times and I remember at one point Xhaka was chasing the ball down from their defenders and he looked like he wanted to ****ing clatter one of them. That’s the kind of mentality that will keep us up this season and bringing in some big bastards like Mukiele, Alderete and Geertruida will help our cause. We were causing chaos from set pieces and again I’ve never seen us do that, ever.

That new set piece coach came with a good rep didn't he? Think we picked him up from Charlton iirc. Can't remember his name tho.

 

[Pure River Slut]

It's needless, which makes it so soft as a red card. A high or late tackle, a clumsy slide in or pull back, even picking up a second yellow, you can understand those. But a daft kick out like that? It's inviting the ref to send you off. The only things in his defense are that Cash was ridiculously late and made no attempt to get the ball, so should have been booked himself, the fact he isn't booked is poor from the ref and it looks worse in slow motion than in real life because there not a lot of force behind it. But it doesn't excuse the stupidity of doing it.

Now he’s missing I wish he’d twatted Cash properly instead of that toe poke.

 

[Chunksafc]

Just in from the match, so proud of them. We looked good before the sending off and even better afterwards.

Mukiele and Aldertete whwre just awesome. Ballars immense, Hume brilliant, Sadiki everywhere, Talbi put in a hell of a shift for the team, Rigg looked so comfortable.

Over the moon with the point today haway the lads

 

[Robref62]

Absolutely brilliant result. Great performance to a man. To come back against a team that finished 6th 1-0 down and down to 10 men was brilliant!! Don’t fear any team in the league after that performance! We ain’t going down

I don't know who you mean...
But if ihad to put my mortgage on I'd say Sutton???