Considering the injuries, this isnt surprising
Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Brighton & Hove Albion – Saturday 14th March 2026 - KO 15:00
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1-0 down, at home, sticks with a single striker up front. Getting a bit silly these tactics now.
Could play another 90 mins and we won't score.
Could play another 90 mins and we won't score.
Slow, dull, ineffective.
Not been great lately have we. Injuries seem to be multiplying and I’m not sure how things are going to be turned around currently
Not been great lately have we. Injuries seem to be multiplying and I’m not sure how things are going to be turned around currently
Not the reaction needed,
Ballard injury is worrying
Hope it’s nothing and was just a precaution
Ballard injury is worrying
Hope it’s nothing and was just a precaution
Fcuk, siht, pizz, or words to that effect
We are not exactly free scoring are we!
We are not exactly free scoring are we!
One of those horrible games where you get into the game, score a good goal and find it's offside.
If that counted I think we'd have won the game, as soon as it was chalked off I feared the worst.
Felt it was going to be hard fought 0-0 then we scored and Brighton scored. Theirs counted though, the sods. Real shame for Riggy as it was a great finish with his right foot.
Well we got our 40 points...injuries piling up its worse than the Afcon, move on see who is fit and give it our best go at the sh1t pit next week OAU.
Although he ran out of steam towards the end, Rigg was our player of the match for me. Worked his socks off all game. Talbi and Diarra poor for me.
Our form and results are a bit concerning for me, yes injuries are playing a part and we're definitely missing Roeffs, Mukiele and Reinildo. Of we're starting to put a centre half up front when we're chasing the game, wouldn't it be advantageous to have a tall striker on the bench to throw in rather than young midfielders than were not gonna use.
Our form and results are a bit concerning for me, yes injuries are playing a part and we're definitely missing Roeffs, Mukiele and Reinildo. Of we're starting to put a centre half up front when we're chasing the game, wouldn't it be advantageous to have a tall striker on the bench to throw in rather than young midfielders than were not gonna use.
cheers again RTB...
sorry lads, that was pure pish, much better than last week but looking at the starting line up and those subs we had i started to feel it would not be 'our day'.
plenty of push but struggled, as usual, to create any real chances, i am also starting to worry that this is our 'this season' version of our 'last season' ...ie: get what we want then try to experiment a wee bit but last season we were guaranteed our finishing position while this season we are guaranteed feck all (yet).
now that is out the way, thought talbi and riggy had a very good first half but fizzled in the second, brobbey did not have his usual 'fighting with the defence' type game but maybe we did not put enough up to him, melkor had a good game again and was unfortunate with the goal as they had a player in an offside position and blocking his view, seen plenty the same get disallowed.
ref watch, best one for a while i thought, in fact i feel we got the better of the decisions.
my MotM is alderete, moved the ball well and defended well, got his head on a few and got as close to scoring as the rest.
sorry lads, that was pure pish, much better than last week but looking at the starting line up and those subs we had i started to feel it would not be 'our day'.
plenty of push but struggled, as usual, to create any real chances, i am also starting to worry that this is our 'this season' version of our 'last season' ...ie: get what we want then try to experiment a wee bit but last season we were guaranteed our finishing position while this season we are guaranteed feck all (yet).
now that is out the way, thought talbi and riggy had a very good first half but fizzled in the second, brobbey did not have his usual 'fighting with the defence' type game but maybe we did not put enough up to him, melkor had a good game again and was unfortunate with the goal as they had a player in an offside position and blocking his view, seen plenty the same get disallowed.
ref watch, best one for a while i thought, in fact i feel we got the better of the decisions.
my MotM is alderete, moved the ball well and defended well, got his head on a few and got as close to scoring as the rest.
Shame mate. We get something out of that on another day - just a bit off with a few things. Hope you have a good one despite the game.
I agree with all that mate.
Once we lost players to AFCON and injuries it started to fracture.
A poor run was followed by another poor run with more injuries and it just goes on and on.
If we'd had all the injuries without AFCON, or vice versa, I think we'd have been fine.
But too many key players are absent and we look disorganised even when we have good spells in games.
We may as well use this time to prepare for next season and give certain players a chance.
Poor game management again , putting a full back on for a forward at O-1 is questionable imo.
I thought it was to give Cirkin some time on the pitch in case he has to face a Newcastle winger next week ...
... could be wrong.
Thought that was pretty poor although I'm not sure we deserved to lose. No idea what happened for the goal everyone seemed to stop playing. Diarra had a bit of a mare I'm not seeing why we spent so much on him.
Tough with all the injuries but still could have done better.
Tough with all the injuries but still could have done better.