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

[bluej]

What were people saying about Typical City not being present anymore?

Dzeko won't be anywhere near that starting eleven against Liverpool.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

3 years in a row at Sunderland we have failed and only in 1 have we got even a point. I fear we are taking patient approach a little too far.

I hope Mancini doesnt make too much the of the "too many games" rubbish.Teams have the obvious plan against us to sit back and absorb and we accept it and play slow football "expecting " it to work.It will much of the time as long as we take our chances but at the moment we are not taking the chances.

[aaron bond]

why am I not surprised, wrong team to send out, they couldn't score in a brothel.

Mancini had to change the team today as we have 2 games in 2 days. I would have had Balotelli on the bench though.

The fact is, the 11 we put out there today was more than good enough to beat a poor Sunderland side, however, too many players looked half-arsed and couldn't be bothered to try.

[guv111]

Mancini has a huge job on his hands tomorrow. He now realises he has no depth because Dzeko, Nasri and De Jong are fucking hopeless, and Johnson isn't much better.

January looks like a bleak month. If we are so fucking brainless that we leave ourselves wide open to an injury time winner against the likes of Sunderland we don't deserve to win the league.

[paddyblue]

baconface fecked up yesterday by making too many changes, so what do we do? although the players we put out should have been good enough
the passing game was missing in the first half, we dont seem to be able to change our game when we need to,

[carl_feedthegoat]

I dont know why everyone is attacking Dzeko..like Aguero (who should have scored) was any better !

[steveo_88]

This has to be the worst I've felt all season and this week could get horrific! Time to get the gallows down from the loft!

[PeterParker]

Fuck Sunderland, the problem is us.

The second game in a row when we pass and pass and pass, one two's in a box full of 10 opposite players and crosses for who knows who. This isn't the way to win when teams park their bus and wait.
Look again at their goal and see 5 players not doing nothing. Yaya lost the ball at 70 m from his goal and instead of running back, he walks.
With this attitude the league can fuck off.

[Ted Hughes]

That should have been an easy decision for the linesman. It's not even close to being onside.

Having said that, I mentioned after the WBA game that if you look at our away performances, we haven't actually turned in a top class one since we won at OT. We've got a couple of results but we struggled at QPR & have only really performed for 20 min spells v scousers & Chelsea. Today confirms it for me; we are not the same team away from home as we were at the beginning of the season.

All bets are off now. We are now doing exactly what Arsenal & Chelsea do when they hand the title to the rags.

[guv111]

Some players have shown today that they don't deserve the chance Mancini has given them.

Amen x 100.

They let everyone down. Mercenary scum.

[david yearsley]

That scoreline was written all over it. Simply not good enough to be title winners. 1 point from 2 utterly shite teams who parked the bus.We´ve been sussed
Pathetic. AJ and Dzeko really didn´t look interested. As for Kun I´m baffled by that performance - baffled

[ross.mcfc]

Wow Line-o, what THE fuck were you doing, clearly offside.

I didnt suspect it was offside at the time and the replay show he was just offside and no more. Cant blame the linesman for our defeat tonight.

[DoomMerchant]

Wow Line-o, what THE fuck were you doing, clearly offside.

Sunderland hit us on the break after packing there box for 20+ minutes. Utterly sickening, thank fuck the others around us dropped a bollock yesterday.

the linesman was about a yard off the play and was clearly afraid to put the flag up because he was trailing the play. He fucked up big time.

Need for instant replay? it works in American Football really really well, but it's a stop start game so the added breaks don't create a continuity challenge.

[dick dastardley]

I dont know why everyone is attacking Dzeko..like Aguero (who should have scored) was any better !

Its because aguero goes lookin for the ball and gives 100% while dzeko just waltzes arould doing fuck all lazy cunt

[sheiks and camels]

Dzeko and nasri shouldn't have been on the pitch , nasri looks like he doesn't wanna be here since the spurs game and dzeko is so out of form I dunno what you would do with him , that team is not food enough to win the league

[The Original Special One]

I was waiting for the Rag linesman to flag it!

[s1ty m]

I dont know why everyone is attacking Dzeko..like Aguero (who should have scored) was any better !

Carl, Kun didn't do much, totally agree, but Dzeko's display was among the worst of any City player since Mancini arrived. Christ he was fucking shite. No pace, can't shoot, can't head, what can he do? This is the guy that scored 4 at Spurs, was that his twin?

[kinkylola]

problem with dzeko is that he doesn't do anything to even unsettle the defense. They don't have to reposition themselves or leave their comfort zone at all to deal with him. just hold their ground or jump.

Aguero may have fucked up the finishing ... and he is just as at fault as anyone for that loss ... but give me aguero on a shit day over dzeko ... aguero moves and causes problems.

dzeko was absolutely dire the entire game and never in a position to even get a clear shot off on goal!!!

[paddyblue]

Fuck Sunderland, the problem is us.

The second game in a row when we pass and pass and pass, one two's in a box full of 10 opposite players and crosses for who knows who. This isn't the way to win when teams park their bus and wait.
Look again at their goal and see 5 players not doing nothing. Yaya lost the ball at 70 m from his goal and instead of running back, he walks.
With this attitude the league can fuck off.

we do the oppositions job for them by running down the clock, letting their defenders rest while we piss around with tip taps. before we eventually give the ball away,no big fuss about the offside,if that was us they would be screaming about it

[guv111]

like i said, this one was begging to let shite refereeing decide the outcome, and it's at our feet that we let it come to that.

In feel for you, mate, and anyone else who had that shite as the start to their day. If your liver can handle it - gets pissed today and sleep all day tomorrow.