Sunderland v Manchester City - Match Thread and Poll

[cam]

I wasn't allowed to vote either. I am not saying what I would have ticked like

That's because when I set the poll up it was for a certain amount of days. The poll closed the day the match was due to be played. The moral to the story is vote early

[Jools]

Sunderland 1-4 Manchester City

No excuses.
van Aanholt brought down a City player in the box and that game them a penalty that Aguero was never going to miss. What a clumsy challenge!

Anyway to sum this game up our defence was total rubbish in the first half. At the break Manchester City were winning 4-0.

Sunderland stemmed the flow a bit in the second half and even managed to score through Toivonen in the 83rd minute.

So it was a game of two halves then with Man City winning the first and Sunderland winning the second.

No laughing matter this was another bad result that dumps Sunderland out of the Carling Cup.

Anyway here is the team that Dick Advocaat put out: Mannone, Yedlin, O’Shea, Coates, van Aanholt, M’Vila, Rodwell (Cattermole 46), Lens, Toivonen, Johnson, Borini. Subs not used: Pantilimon, Brown, Larsson, Gomez, Defoe, Fletcher

We go to Manchester City this Saturday ..... get your tin hats on lads and lasses.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/fo ... y-10112687

The Sunderland Echo report on the Sunderland Cup Match with Manchester City: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/foo ... -1-7474958

[red ken]

Did anyone really think Manchester City would be a pushover

[openbox]

Just hoping that Sunderland can pull themselves together. On paper we have some great players with much talent but in the first half of the games recently we are being humiliated. The second half appears to be a little better as showed last night. Maybe Dick Advocaat's policy is to let the opposition attack first. I wouldn't know as I have not been to any game this season or even watched highlights. If DA just wants to try and absorb the attacks first it is the wrong way to go about it. I do get to hear the radio commentary now and again and it does appear that Sunderland are not prepared to go forward from the off. Maybe this should change.

[wongeye]

Did anyone really think Manchester City would be a pushover

Not really but I would have liked to see some form of spark.

[thingamajig]

Did anyone really think Manchester City would be a pushover

Errrrr nor like but we wanted to see a competitive game.

[Frog]

Well lads n lasses, Sunderland may have been dumped out of the Carling Cup by Manchester City but we were trumped by Newcastle

They cannet see us with nowt

So, while we were knocked out of a cup game by the top team in the world, Newcastle, playing at home, in front of 50,000 screaming jawdees got thrown out of the same cup by Sheffield Wednesday reserves - fact!

[Nockya]

The Newcastle result last night makes ours look alright

[Arny]

The poll was canny here. I wonder if that could be incorporated on the predictions threads in some way?

[Jackal]

The poll was canny here. I wonder if that could be incorporated on the predictions threads in some way?

Good point and I am sure we can look into this.