Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Everton FC - Monday 3rd November 2025 - KO 20:00

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samwise_new said:
i always feel 10 games will give a decent chance to look at the players and i have to say none have given me any concerns, i am happy for any one of them to come in and do a job, talbi and adingra have taken a while to look settled but both have improved plus mundle to come back yet, so right now i am not looking too far into january.

i am pretty sure the recruitment team will already have some players lined up but i do agree, the wings have not really delivered on a regular basis, not saying they are useless, far from it but i would like to see more form them.
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it's the right side that is the issue really, both Talbi and Adingra are far better on the left (Talbi it's night and day) but Le Fee is doing well there.

Adingra isn't fancied due to his defensive work rate would be my guess at his lack of minutes.

Traore can do a job but i think signing a RW with a bit of x-factor would be big for us. Wouldn't mind revisiting Fatawu
 
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TheBronzeBummer said:
I do think Reg got it wrong. Selection, formation, tactics and then subs, little questionable decisions for me, which is easy said because we didn't win. I love Reg, I think hes won us points within games at times.

Even without those questions, we could have won mind.
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You may be 100% correct, I can't deny that.

However I always ask myself, in these situations, what would've happened if he'd done precisely what you/us/I had suggested.

Would we have lost ...

... it's just as possible.

If we'd set up differently would the game have been different, would Everton have changed their set up, etc.

Games are only 90 minutes long and can flash by.

What I like about Le Bris is that he sits back, suspends time and changes things in real time.

That's why I rarely question him. If we'd flown out of the blocks we may have found that Everton rallied in the way we did ...

... we'll never know and that's the beauty of football.
 
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safcyellowbelly said:
My two pence worth...

I thought that the crowd was subdued to start with - there was something "off" before kick off and that wasn`t helped by the showing in the first 20/25 minutes (I`d have said slightly longer but I`m going to contradict XG!).

There were a few occasions when a few of ours (Sadiki sticks out in my mind but he wasn`t alone) went down too easily - didn`t feel very "Sunderland" when they did...

Their goal was a good strike but I was disappointed that nobody put a "proper tackle" in on him...

When we got going we looked sharp - lots of nice football, lots of control and we could (should?) have won...disappointed we didn`t get the penalty (it was a clear handball from where I was sat); disappointed Nordi (?) didn`t do better with his header (but with a boot in the face maybe excusable!) and disappointed that Pickford somehow made a save after he`d gone down for the shot from Le Fee`s shot and that we didn`t get a decent chance from the goal line scramble in the first half...

All in all happy enough with a point but it could have been more...

Thinking back to the thread post the Wolves game and most/many were saying 5 or 6 points from the next 5 games would be decent...we have 4 after 2 of those 5...decent start to that block of games...
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I agree about some of ours going down easily, Sadiki in my opinion was fouled in the build up to their goal, but made a meal of it which is why it wasn't given as a foul. That I think contributes to our defence being stretched and not in shape as their player runs at us, no one was in the right position to put a challenge in earlier and by the time we have people back who could he's in the penalty area with too much risk. Reinildo was worse to me as I was right in front of it. He challenged for the ball and is pushed/shoved by their defender, but dropped to the floor holding his face. There was contact from their defenders shoulder, but not enough for him to go down like that. I'm disappointed in it, it's not like us, but can half understand it (though not condone it) because they got the majority of 50-50s and a few soft free kicks for similar things, so some of ours might have tried it on thinking he'd be equally gullible on it.
 
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Disappointed with that result.
Yes they were all over us most of the first half but we let them. The odd times we did get in their half we literally looked like rabbits in the headlights.

I'd love to know what Regis said at half time.

We came out and showed how we can play. Maybe that's a tactic to defend for long spells then attack, but we need to be more prolific in the final third.
I'm not complaining, I think Everton are decent.
Ok theirs was a wonder goal, could we of defended it better ?
But they had too many clear cut chances that thankfully they couldn't put away.

All in all though. We are doing great.
We just can't afford to give arsenal easy chances.
Still a great season and what a team <cool>
 
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Nig said:
Disappointed with that result.
Yes they were all over us most of the first half but we let them. The odd times we did get in their half we literally looked like rabbits in the headlights.

I'd love to know what Regis said at half time.

We came out and showed how we can play. Maybe that's a tactic to defend for long spells then attack, but we need to be more prolific in the final third.
I'm not complaining, I think Everton are decent.
Ok theirs was a wonder goal, could we of defended it better ?
But they had too many clear cut chances that thankfully they couldn't put away.

All in all though. We are doing great.
We just can't afford to give arsenal easy chances.
Still a great season and what a team <cool>
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Them first 30 minutes were our young players having zoomies . Not sure if it was the idea of potentially going second with a win, just the atmosphere, but we weren't composed on the ball.

From the 28th to 83rd minute they didn't have a shot on our goal.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said he is "concerned" by the muscle injury Viktor Gyokeres sustained during the 2-0 win at Burnley.

Gyokeres, who signed for Arsenal in a £64m transfer in the summer, scored the opening goal on Saturday before being withdrawn at half-time.

The 27-year-old striker has scored four goals in the Premier League this season but has not trained since the Burnley game and is unavailable for Tuesday's Champions League tie at Slavia Prague (17:45 GMT).

"No, he's definitely not available," said Arteta when asked by BBC Sport if Gyokeres was in the squad.
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Havertz, Gyokeres, Jesus and Martinelli all out injured at the same time.
 
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OldNewtown said:
Just realised Michael Salisbury was the VAR Ref.
There's something at the back of my mind about him but can I heck remember what it is.
He was the ref that disallowed Josh King's goal for Fulham at Chelsea but I thought there was something else involving us.
Could be wrong as I do suffer from a natural bias against all referee's that are involved in our games :emoticon-0102-bigsm
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Are you sure it was Sailsbury?. I was told Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.
 
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JimHeron92 said:
I thought it was a penalty in the ground but having seen it now I actually think I agree with the refs decision (unless my eyes are decieving me) looked like it comes off his knee/thigh onto his arm and that would negate the handball by the rules as i understand them.
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Didn't see that so fair play if it deflected onto his hand. Might be a case of the ref accidentally getting the decision right - be amazing if he spotted a slight deflection from his viewpoint.
 
CR17 said:
it's the right side that is the issue really, both Talbi and Adingra are far better on the left (Talbi it's night and day) but Le Fee is doing well there.

Adingra isn't fancied due to his defensive work rate would be my guess at his lack of minutes.

Traore can do a job but i think signing a RW with a bit of x-factor would be big for us. Wouldn't mind revisiting Fatawu
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Squad feels a bit lopsided in that respect - Mundle, Talbi, Andingra and Le Fee are all options on the left/ Traore is the only real option on the right.
Makes you wonder what future Adingra has if he's getting nowhere near the team at the moment.... Too soon to write him off of course, but seems as though right wing is his only route into the team
 
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