****official black cats v citizens match thread****

[Blue In Bolton]

Sunderland losing their shape and discipline now as we are starting to impose our game.

[guv111]

This is frustrating, again.

[Mase]

O'Shea looks like his just found out about Stephen Gately

[DoomMerchant]

Dzeko's had a relapse of shit syndrome.

i was thinking that as well...sometimes his touch makes you want to go on a Balkan football forum and talk about how totally fucking crap he is as a player. Just sayin.

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Not doing enough to break them down yet. If it stays like this into the 2nd half I hope he yanks de Jong for silva or aguero.

[Nigels Tackle]

not very barcelonaesque is it?

[guv111]

Dzeko's had a relapse of shit syndrome.

i was thinking that as well...sometimes his touch makes you want to go on a Balkan football forum and talk about how totally fucking crap he is as a player. Just sayin.

It was August and September when he was actually any good. This is his normal standard.

[steveo_88]

not very barcelonaesque is it?

Maybe because this is Sunderland versus City!

[Sister of fu]

Dzeko's had a relapse of shit syndrome.

He is winding me up today. He hasnt really played and has a chance to show something today and has been garbage. Doesnt look arsed at times. We are really going to have to grind something out today.

[DoomMerchant]

not very barcelonaesque is it?

we had about 5 minutes of pretty, flowing stuff. Now we are back to no cutting edge and no final ball, etc.

[CTID Hants]

Edin should have passed that to AJ then!!

[CityGer]

i was thinking that as well...sometimes his touch makes you want to go on a Balkan football forum and talk about how totally fucking crap he is as a player. Just sayin.

He can be a frustrating fucker at times.

[bernabias_right_boot]

Any goal will do.

[bernabias_right_boot]

Not the best half of football I've seen, but we're on top.
Expect us to hammer them 2nd half.

[guv111]

Time to pull Dzeko and Nasri, and tell them to fuck off in the summer. Sick of waiting for these two to show some sustained quality.

[carl_feedthegoat]

I really dont like to see NDJ in the team anymore...hes so fucking predictable...sideways... backwards and offers ZERO in attack.
We are playing Sunderland ffs......we dont need an annoying DM like him today.

[DoomMerchant]

Dzeko's had a relapse of shit syndrome.

He is winding me up today. He hasnt really played and has a chance to show something today and has been garbage. Doesnt look arsed at times. We are really going to have to grind something out today.

It's Milner time...i think. Nasri off, Milner on at HT. Balo on at 60 for Dzeko if we're not producing.

[Crossie]

We had a spell there 30min+ where we needed to put the ball in the net while we were well ontop.

Cant really see it happening unless we change upfront. Holding them back nicely, ontop in midfield, enough effort, just lack the skills of Silva, Balo or Aguero.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Frustrating half. A few decent minutes, a couple of flashes but Sunderland will be extremely happy so far.Just not enough players playing well.

[DoomMerchant]

We had a spell there 30min+ where we needed to put the ball in the net while we were well ontop.

Cant really see it happening unless we change upfront. Holding them back nicely, ontop in midfield, enough effort, just lack the skills of Silva, Balo or Aguero.

to be fair tho the Sunderland line, as makeshift as it is, is grinding it out. They have probably 7 players in the fuclin box as we're trying to break them down. We've done okay with some width at times, but our final ball is fucking atrocious.