Match Day Thread Burnley FC v Sunderland AFC - Saturday 23rd August 2025 - KO 15:00

Just a quick apology to clarify things.

Everything is/was my fault, everyone else is great and totally blameless.

There you go, easily sorted and everyone can play nice together

 

In principle I agree but honestly m8, it’s too early to be thinking that imho. As a supporter you either think we’ll struggle or we’ll be fine, both are underpinned in our clubs case with hope. Personally I’m in the 17th position camp, it’ll be a fight but I have faith, the blips here and there have to be taken with the unexpected points. After a dozen games or so I’ll reassess, but at present I’m neither elated cos we humped wist am or suicidal cos a team who finished 20 points above us last season beat us. I’m not saying you’re not allowed your own views and feelings btw m8, just saying the time to catastrophise is a way off imho, otherwise you’ll spoil enjoying our first top flight season in 9.

 

Noah Sadiki says Sunderland must quickly respond after Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at Burnley, urging greater ruthlessness and risk-taking as the team targets a reaction in upcoming fixtures….

And for Sadiki, the prospect of two quickfire fixtures presents the perfect opportunity to put things right.

“We are all disappointed because we had chances in the first half but didn’t finish them. We need to switch on to the next game now.

“We need to be more dangerous. Kicking the ball around is good, but if you don’t do anything with it, it doesn’t have a point. We need to find the spaces in between the defence and take some risks. We now move on to the next one to prove we can win these types of games.

“Being clinical is a big part of being successful in the Premier League - if you don’t finish your chance,s then you are punished. We know this now. It is better for this result to come right now,” he continued. “If it comes a little bit later in the season it can be difficult to react.

“We have the possibility to respond next week. We have Huddersfield in the cup and then Brentford before the international break, so we have plenty of possibilities to react to the result at Burnley.”

 

What do we think the deal is with RLB insisting on putting Enzo in on the wing?

 

Stupidity.

It’s the one thing about Regis that absolutely annoys the **** out of me.

He knows more than anyone what Enzo can do, he even said as much start of summer about him being central, then he doesn’t use him there when we crying out for a central outlet.

Daft.

 

Has to be some weird misguided reason for it. Can't work it out at all.

 

A different take is that RLB is a thinker and plays the long game. Even though Le Fee into CM could have reaped rewards, I think he wants our core midfield 3 to get maximum time together to gel and learn. It may cause a little harm in the short term but we will see the benefit in future games.

Also Le Fee out wide hammers home the need for another winger.

 

100% agree

 

Lack of other options, that's why at least 1 more forward is vital

 

But we were losing the game.

He had the option so if he was playing roulette trying to force a winger move that would be suicidal for him.

We haven’t the luxury of turning away points I don’t think for a second that was Reg play.

Like I say it’s the frustrating thing about him, he’s a bit too rigid and copycat in what he sees as changes.

The improved coaching will help with this.

We don’t know that that’s even the long term 3 yet. On the basis of yesterday it can’t be as we laboured, man for man we outclassed them CM on paper, reality was we didn’t ever get hold of that area.

 

I really don't like it or agree. but I think there's very specific reasons for it.

1) It gets Enzo further up the pitch. In midfield, there's a risk that he's not in the final third enough where he can do real damage.
2) He often pairs him with Isidor who runs the left channel and allows that connection to be closer and link up more effectively.

For what it's worth, I think the Enzo/Isidor connection is the best attacking threat we have, but I don't like Enzo on the wing to enable it.

 

This is absolutely spot on and very level headed from such a young man. I'd be tempted to play him on Tuesday as well, his energy could really dictate the tempo in that game.

 

Tempers do get lost, like yesterday but we all share our love of SAFC.

 

Agreed that it maybe wasn’t the best move in terms of improving our chance of getting a result. I’m as gutted as the next man we couldn’t come away with a point.

What I’m getting at is RLB is a very considered tactician. Disrupting the midfield 3 after they had a poor start to the second half can send bad signals and also doesn’t give them the opportunity to continue experiencing that bad patch together. They got the chance to learn from it and strengthen those shared references that RLB talks about. On another day, we do get the equaliser. I’ve just seen the highlights but we didn’t make the most of some decent openings later in the game.

 

A really tough game as expected. Burnley not the whipping boys many predicted

 

Very true. Shame the mods are deleting accurate posts of Cam on here stating what happened whilst leaving the rest of the nonsense. It's so far past the point of being impartial it's completely bias.

Anyway let's hope we get some points against Brenford.

 

Must not lose.

 

Yeah. I'll take a point again TBH. But home, it's a chance against a team who I think, will be bottom 3. So a win would be marvelous.

 

Goals change games, we score through the mayenda chance and we win the game.

Once they scored it was always going to be tough given their strong defensive approach, disappointed we didn’t create much after they scored but onwards and upwards