Amazing how much of a lift a proper performance and three points can give you, isnt it. Loved everything about #SAFC today. Physicality was back, the desire, a lot more dynamism.
Buzzing for Reggie, but everyone needed that today.
Buzzing for Reggie, but everyone needed that today.
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Some takeaways:
1) I think Brobbey has to be handcuffed and shot before Premier League referees will give the guy a free kick. It’s scandalous.
2) Nordi at CB is class. The sooner we get our back 4 from last season played regularly again together, we will be fine.
3) Xhaka pulled up in the warm up right in front of me. Looked in a lot of pain.
4) Ahoka is genuinely exciting.
5) what’s gone under the radar this season is that Sadiki has been miles off it. All the attention has been on Xhaka. Today Noah had his best game of the season. Much more effective.
6) Talbi is our best winger and needs to play every week.
7) that team won’t be getting relegated.
8) Keep the faith.
9) #SAFC
1) I think Brobbey has to be handcuffed and shot before Premier League referees will give the guy a free kick. It’s scandalous.
2) Nordi at CB is class. The sooner we get our back 4 from last season played regularly again together, we will be fine.
3) Xhaka pulled up in the warm up right in front of me. Looked in a lot of pain.
4) Ahoka is genuinely exciting.
5) what’s gone under the radar this season is that Sadiki has been miles off it. All the attention has been on Xhaka. Today Noah had his best game of the season. Much more effective.
6) Talbi is our best winger and needs to play every week.
7) that team won’t be getting relegated.
8) Keep the faith.
9) #SAFC
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Michael Graham retweeted
When you cost £117 million and a lad who cost £200,000 and is playing out of his natural position hasn’t given you a kick…
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Think we can say, pretty categorically after that, that RLB absolutely has not lost the dressing room. #SAFC
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Michael Graham retweeted
Brian Brobbey is the best target man in the Premier League this season
When Sunderland go long from their own half and he gets to the ball first, they keep it 79% of the time. The average for forwards is 53%. Calvert-Lewin, who wins far more long balls, is at 53%, Delap at 38%
When Sunderland go long from their own half and he gets to the ball first, they keep it 79% of the time. The average for forwards is 53%. Calvert-Lewin, who wins far more long balls, is at 53%, Delap at 38%
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I mean, no wonder Dan Neil was so eager to tell him to fuck the fuck off. #SAFC
@Capt_Fishpaste Some of his decisions were embarrassing he booked 11 people there was only clear booking in the game Meunier. Every piece of contact he was blowing. The man is abysmal.
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Consider just how bad a referee has to be to get vitriolicly booed off by the whole ground after a 1-0 home win in which the goal was a penalty 😬😲🙈
#SAFC
#SAFC
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“Thursday, we planned to play 60 minutes, but at half-time he told me, ‘I'll go all the way. I will help the squad.’ This is Granit."
Sounds like someone who knew he wasn't going to be playing the Sunday...
#SAFC
Sounds like someone who knew he wasn't going to be playing the Sunday...
#SAFC
REGIS Le Bris admits he can't be sure how the summer speculation surrounding Granit Xhaka affected the Sunderland dressing room - but insists the captain remains as committed as ever to the Black Cats.
And ahead of the visit of Chelsea today, Le Bris has admitted for the first ld transfer talks with Jordan Henderson last summer and he'd like to have signed the England international
But a deal couldn't be struck and Sunderland instead pursued the capture of Xhaka, who turned out to be a transformational signing, leading the Black Cats to a seventh-place finish and Europa League qualification
He said: “[It’s] Hard to say. It's always complex. It's one element in the equation, so I don't know, to be fair.
"What I know is what I see every day, the involvement of Granit, his standards, training standards, his willingness to play for Sunderland.
“Thursday, we planned to play 60 minutes, but at half-time he told me, ‘I'll go all the way. I will help the squad.’ This is Granit.
“So after that, he is human, he will have ups and downs. You are not the same player when you are 34 that you were at 23. His game is evolving as well, but his commitment is superb, no doubt about that."
Henderson was strongly linked with Sunderland after the Black Cats won promotion last year, and Le Bris has now lifted the lid on what happened.
“Jordan is a great player, first of all," he said.
"For the connection with the club, it's not my part. It was with Flo and Kyril, they had conversations.
“I thought that it could have been a good signing for the club, a good symbol, a great player, a great leader. But the market is the market.”
He was delighted Sunderland ended up landing Xhaka.
"Absolutely, he said, "Granit is superb as well."
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If you expected anything other than a FB on the wing you seriously haven't been paying attention.
As I said last week, #SAFC are a team set up to score the first goal. Pretty much all we've done this season is concede it. Fear it will be toxic in SOL today if we do it again.
As I said last week, #SAFC are a team set up to score the first goal. Pretty much all we've done this season is concede it. Fear it will be toxic in SOL today if we do it again.
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I made the same point the other day about the erosion of nastiness and everyone can see the soft goals are killing us. #SAFC aren't fixing anything until they rediscover the pride in being bastards.
🚨Robin Roefs defends Regis Le Bris ahead of Sunderland v Chelsea, telling me, ‘Regis stands behind us, so we stand behind him’ in an interview for the Premier League.
🗣️ “Last season, we were nasty, we were direct. We’re too imbalanced and give away easy goals. We need to st season and find the confidence in each other again.”
🗣️ “If you see what Regis has done for this club from being in the Championship at a low point, to bringing us to the Premier League and qualifying for Europe, I think that’s built so much credit for him.”
🗣️ “We’re all behind him as players. He’s a good man and manager to have in this moment because his emotions are balanced. He stands firmly behind us - he knows we can turn things around - and we stand firmly behind him too.”
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Today is the last home game I can get to for more than a month. If you could not be dickheads today, #SAFC, that would be genuinely lovely.
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