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

Wow - Everton fans

Sutton's prediction: 1-1
FM26's prediction: 0-4
Miles' prediction: Everton have lost their last two games and Sunderland are looking strong at home, but Oliver and Paul Collyer, who are the founders of Sports Interactive, are massive Everton fans and I would not live it down if I went for a Sunderland win. 1-1
AI's prediction: 1-1

 

Champions League nailed on, then?

 

We haven't had a fluke result so far ...

... if we get one against Arsenal that could totally make our season.

 

HA'WAY THE LADS

MACKEMS ATTACKEM


I'd love us to stuff it up Moyes. Negative tosser.

Not taking anything for granted but we are in a better place than them at the moment so hopefully we get a win.
Cooooooomon.

 

Trai will need to be careful up against Grealish, we don't want to be down to 10 again.
Will we go 5 at the back? Ballard must play imo.

 

Wouldnt say nailed on but wouldnt rule it out

 

HTLs

a lot of the premier league teams have a lot of other games with Europe etc. If we can keep our lads fit…. Still be happy just staying up but you can dream.

 

It’s LoN being sent off for me

 

Well the worst that can happen is we drop to eighth this weekend or seventh if we are lucky but then we could be up to second if we win on Monday.

 

I have to be honest Chunks, I’m really looking forward to it.

It’ll be great watching others squirm and I’ll enjoy the various protests around the PL. West Ham are planning organised protests, Wolves will have an impromptu protest and Liverpool fans will demonstrate because the glare from Slot’s head is distracting the players

 

Thats true mate, but it feels like an age since we had a home game and I cant wait for them.

 

Press conference is at 13:30 today

 

****s really hit the fan if he is getting sent off on 30 minutes!

 

thanks RLB. Feels like a huge opportunity to beat a side that I think we better than man for man. We have home advantage, we’re in better form, and a much better tactician at the helm. Complacency hopefully limited by the experience of Xhaka, Reinildo, Mukiele, Traore and Alderete. Competition to start is quite strong, with the finishers doing well recently and players returning from injury trying to get back in.

No easy games in this league, but if we can win, sets up a potential top of the table clash with Arsenal to be top of the league for the international break. Ha’way the lads.

 

Excellent point you make about drawing games. Ahead of last week I took us to get a draw down at Chelsea and it would still have been a good point.

I did also get to thinking on the morning of the game that we could also be very disciplined and beat them.

After the intial disappointment of conceding early we grew into the game very quickly and were much the better side throughout the game and fully deserved the win.

The mentality of the lads, led so well by Xhaka with a committed set of players alongside him, has led me to think that we aren't going to settle for a point anywhere anymore. The lads think they can beat anyone in this league and they are right.

There will be bumps along the way but this lot are right amongst it and I'd put nothing past them.

HTL

 

Spot on mate, there’s no chance of the players accepting a draw, before kick off, so why should we.

As you say we could’ve just clung on at Chelsea but we didn’t …

… when the ball hit the back of the net we had four players around their box.

That was a collective decision by the players, unbelievable.

 

My only worry is, they have seemed to have learnt nothing about how to start a game.

 

Don't mind all the predictions having us to lose (Sky and BBC ). Happy to always be an underdog

 

Really? We conceded early against Chelsea but didn’t play poorly. Think only match they were poor early on is Man Utd and that was a tactical problem as the subs and changes fixed it and we easily equalled them from then on.

 

The fact we conceded in under 4 minutes which I predicted before kick off doesn’t really make your point valid.