Match Day Thread Stoke City FC v Sunderland AFC – Sunday 29th December 2024 - KO 15:00

Nope The lad who was meant to be driving dropped out a couple of days ago, meaning I’d be behind the wheel. Struggling to lift my head off the pillow without being in pain so driving there and back was automatically a no go. Trying to get in the docs tomorrow. Just hope we get all 3 today, if we’re serious about going up we need to win these games.

 

Yeah. Has to be a win.

 

@JamesCopley_
Understand it’s decent news on Chris Rigg. Some bad ankle swelling but scans haven’t revealed any lasting damage.
17-year-old will miss today’s game against Stoke City and probably Sheffield United on NYD alongside the FA Cup game.
#SAFC

 

Really positive news. Could have been significantly worse.

 

Best Xmas present by far might have a celebratory lempsip

 

I'd put my regular "8weeks" prediction on it so that's champion!

 

Dunno why I’ve woken up a little nervous for this one, really need to be putting these to the sword today, big game, nice early goal to settle us down please

 

It will all hinge on how many changes he makes with Sheffield United in mind.

 

I'm pretty expectant of a win today and that makes me nervous. These are the games that teams that get promoted win.

Wouldn't be surprised to see RLB change things up slightly today, think we'll go with something like;

Patterson
Hume Mepham O'Nien Cirkin
Connolly Neil Jobe
Roberts Isidor Aouchiche

We should be dominating the ball today against a side that will sit in so I'd rather Aouchiche and Connolly who are comfortable operating in pockets of space in front of the defence rather than Mayenda who wants to find space in behind as I doubt there will be much of that.

Should be plenty of creativity in that side to provide Isidor with 3/4 quality chances. Should be less involved in build up play if we are dominating the ball which is a good thing. Get him in the box and get the ball into him.

0-2. Isidor and Jobe.

 

Connolly as a right CM? Has he ever played there before ? Massive risk that.

 

Patterson
Hume
Mephem
O'nien
Alese
Neil
Bellingham
Poveda
Connolly
Aouchiche
Mayenda

 

Smashing job RTB. Thankyou.
Funnily enough , I fear our problem may be possible complacency today . But I’ll trust RLB to waken them up and take it 2-0

 

Millwall away

 

Was much higher no? I personally would like a more of a natural CM type player than a striker dropping that far back

 

Other than the goal he played the Tommy Miller role brilliantly.

 

Yeah he was but Rigg plays pretty high anyway. I just don't see RLB using Aleksic

 

Haway the lads

 

Has to be AA or Aleksic for me. Need natural CM's or attacking CM's who can retain the ball for me. Especially away from home. Unless he goes 4-4-2 at all times today.

 

Great, that’s what I thought on the day …

… he wasn’t stretching, just kicked.

 

We should win today, player for player we are a lot better but hate playing teams that have just sacked their manager

I think stoke will have a reaction to it, so we need to put in a full performance - something we haven't done recently