Off Topic Non-Sunderland games

Great goal from Salah

 

As much as I’m confident we’ll be just fine I’d rather the likes of Brentford weren’t picking up 3 points off Liverpool!

 

Confidence and psychology are strange things, especially in sport. Right now Kerkez looks like a park player, Van Dijk looks nervous as though he's never played with any of these before, Wirz is clearly struggling to fit in, all this seems to be spreading to the rest of the team.

If you believe you're going to win, you might not win every time but will do more often than not. If you believe you're going to lose, you find a way of making it happen. Stupid mistakes because of nerves, forcing play when you dont need to, being too slow. Put that together with the team balance being off and maybe some players going past their prime and you can see how it can go wrong very quickly. Right now Liverpool remind me of the way they did around the time Dalgleish left and Souness took over, fragile confidence, some key players off their best/in decline and a lack of direction.

 

PL has been brilliant so far this season

 

PL has been brilliant so far this season

 

Just watched motd. Sky said about ours and Newcastle that Newcastle were dominant?? Without 3 terrible Fulham errors, they score none! Bassey gives the ball away for the first and second, and the keeper was awful on the second too.

 

It'll be great watching 'the other games' today knowing we'll end the day in the top six at worst.

Even better we'll know any team going above us will have hurt one below us.

Wolves, Burnley and Forest will end the day below us, whatever happens, and could be in bigger trouble.

I'll enjoy it all.

 

If Wolves don’t win today I’d say they’re pretty much nailed on to be relegated unless something drastic happens. Would be 0/1 point from 3 matches against the promoted teams and they’ve got a tricky run coming up in which points will be at a premium.

 

This is brilliant....

 

Some cracking fixtures today

Hearts v Celtic at 12 is a big one.

 

Arnie Slot after the defeat at Brentford.