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

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.

 

Not read any of the thread but what a point that was.

• Mukiele, Alderete and Ballard phenomenal to the point I’d consider going back 5 next week
• Sadiki immense
• Reinildo absolutely idiotic and I’m still not happy with him
• Roefs obviously should have done a lot better with the goal but even the best keepers in the world occasionally have howlers like that. I’m ok with the occasional howler if it’s backed up with performances like last week. And he was otherwise very good today
• We look completely at home in the premier league
• We don’t create many chances but I think I need to get used to this, and if we keep up this clinicism who gives a ****
• Rigg was very good until he was understandably subbed
• Very proud to see Neil come on and he won a great free kick right at the death
• Talbi looks much happier on the left
• Isidor has now proven he’s a premier league striker for me
• Did I mention Mukiele was immense?

 

Can someone please remove Watkins from Mukieles pocket , bloke is an absolute beast; fantastic CH performance.

Fantastic point after the red card, great fight shown by the lads today. Sadiki was everywhere and I thought Talbi was superb, especially second half. He carried the ball up the pitch really well.

It's all coming together nicely.

 

I’d still settle for staying up on goal difference. This season it’s all that matters for me. I appreciate that wouldn’t be fun tho

 

We can’t complain about Roefs but it looked to me like he should have saved that shot. Gutted it was that little shirt that scored. Haven’t had a rewatch of the sending off just seen a few stills but it looked liked he went in late then got up and stood over Reinildo but got nowt? is that right ?

 

It would be jolly good if he ended the season with more than Wissa

 

Aye, if we were 5 points clear with 5 to play, one more win would probably be enough. So i would probably be happy with that scenario.

 

Watched on TV. I thought we were in control and the better team up to the sending off. After that the momentum changed until half time. It gave them a boost and knocked us back a bit. Shame for Rigg to go off, he was looking the part, but someone had to go. Our shape after the sending off was good and we weren't stretched at all, even though they had more possession and territory.

The sending off affected the game, I think we win if he doesn't get sent off. Stupid. Soft, it's barely a kick out, more like a leg straightening but it catches Cash and he makes the most of it. Letter of the law says he has to go, so I can't complain about it other than the stupidity of him doing it. But even with 10 men we at least held our own. If we'd scored when we hit the bar I think we'd have gone on to win. We looked dangerous when we got forward and especially at corners. Shame the ref was poor, they did a few niggly fouls and got away with it and looked capable of giving away a penalty for holding every time we got a corner. Perhaps he thought we'd look for him to even things up but went too far the opposite way.

Their goal was hit well with a lot of swerve which caught Roefs out at the last second, but he should have done better to keep it out. Arguably his first mistake for us, but in his defense the ball was swerving all over and I think he just fractionally misjudged it stopping him getting enough to keep it out. I'll not criticise him too much as he's been excellent so far and although it's a mistake he's been unlucky with the ball's movement.

But as I say we looked dangerous going forward and an excellent goal to equalise, lovely little header from Xhaka and a neat, cool finish from Isadore. Well deserved. The substitutions were to help us hold on and see out and worked pretty well. You'd barely notice we were down to 10 men throughout the game, other than that they were able to make a bit of use of the extra space to push on and have more territory, but they rarely had us under heavy pressure and only really had one chance late on where Watkins couldn't make contact to one floated to the back post. It says a lot that it was about the only time they stretched us in the whole second half, despite the man advantage.

Overall, well deserved and a decent performance. We showed plenty of character to equalise and get the point after playing the best part of an hour down to 10 men and it'll hold us well for the rest of the season.

 

The ball swerved a hell of a lot and his vision was blocked with the bodies in front of him, he did pull off a couple of great chances for them also, don’t know for the life of me why a player who went in late when the ball was gone didn’t get a yellow, yes it was a red and reinildo shouldn’t have reacted but if cash doesn’t go in late and foul then reinildo doesn’t lash out

 

Great point given the circumstances. Well done lads

 

Of course mate. And he’d just committed a late foul. I’d have hammered the cocky little ****e second half.

 

Aye, should have saved it, but you could see why he didnt. Not quite what i would call an error.

 

Definitely a red for me. Daft by Renildo...

 

Great performance that we were the better team even with 10 men. Really limited them to next to no chances.

Reinaldo ****ing stupid. Mukiele top drawer. Isidor deserved his goal was buzzing around causing problems all afternoon. You can’t put a price on how important Xhaka is to this team, his mentality is second to none. When Alderete the bar infront of our end he went over to take the corner and had a massive grin on his face watching the crowd get behind the lads.

 

First error by roefs & he's hauled over hot coals ffs the ball was swerving all over

 

Red for me too

 

One question
Is that a 3 match ban for Renildo?
I think it may be

 

Is it 1 or 3 match ban?

 

everyone knows it was a red and stupid in the way he reacted but it was instigated by cash who came in late when the ball was away. Surely that’s a yellow

 

3 for violent conduct