And contrary to what some of the bad winner Mags are saying, Im not just saying this because we lost, Ive genuinely been ****ting it for this game, and can finally breathe easy now its over.
Our home record against you is DIRE. 2 wins in 14 home games. This will psychologically affect the players, as will the 5-1 last season. There was so much pressure to get back at Newcastle, the players clearly couldnt handle it. I said it elsewhere, but I believe watching Sunderland is akin to watching England, albeit on a lesser scale. Clearly some decent players there, but you just know when it matters, they -will- crumble, and run out of ideas. particularly in the derby.
The change in the way our team plays, and the body language of our players when we go behind/a team gets a goal back is visible, and clear. We revert solely to hoofball, make ****ty challenges, and generally run out of ideas and start panicking.
Feel like ****, but everything that I predicted would go wrong, did.