Sunderland AFC Match Thread

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Saturday 29th December 2012
K.O @ 1245hrs GMT

cant fault anyones performance yesterday, but use the squad and give others a start. dawson in for gallas, parker start for sandro,siggy start for dembele (looked like he was limping a bit when changed). mix it up a bit.

i would do the same. plus sunderland are really physical

i would bench bale as hes just back from an injury

Can't Avb benching Bale Loughtan , maybe against Reading at home but not away at Sunderland.

I think we will go again with the team that beat Villa unless, Dembele is unfit . Apparently he's tweeted and up for the game so we'll see.

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Our starting team today is: Lloris, Walker, Caulker, Dawson, Naughton, Sandro, Dembele, Lennon, Bale, Adebayor and Defoe

Subs: Friedel, Vertonghen, Huddlestone, Livermore, Parker, Dempsey and Sigurdsson

spurs game on sopcast channal 132927

Another team in stripes intent in slowing the game to a standstill hoping for a dead ball to nick a goal, are Sunderland actually at home?

typical , all over them then they get one lucky tap in, who was picking up oshea, no one ades just watchin him.

oh look all spurs and that plank gives away a free kick and they score
thats the one thing you dont want to do to these sort of teams is give them free kicks to whip in

get ade off hes been pony again

Bring on Siggy for Ade, Ade is way too lazy, he needs a kick up the a*se, we've been all over them, just not good enough movement upfront by defoe nor ade.

good win , well composed in defence today even without vertonghen. ades a waster in front of goal

ade looks like hes not botherd if he scores.
bale booked but i thought it was a pen
defoe booked and rightly so for diving

specal mention for sandro naughton and lennon and lloris
AVB lol another win away from home. we lost 1 game in december and 1 in last 10 games.

ratings
lloris 9 he seem to deal with everything that came in the box.
walker 6 he gets caught out then has to foul. 1 needless foul led to the goal then another 1 in injury time
dawson 7 sold
caulker 7 sold
naughton 8 brillant game and good interception at the end to deny fletcher a tap in
sandro 8 gave hes all
dembelle 7 decent game
bale 7 tried but wernt hes day and unlucky to not get a pen
lennon8 great goal and worked hard
ade6 dont seem to want to score.
defoe 6 decent game

subs dempsey looked good when he came on
parker and stigg came on too late to get a mark

i thought bales "dive" was a bloody penalty as well, he got kneed by the other player. trouble is hes a marked man now with refs , he wont get any 50-50 decisions his way now.yes it looked like defoe dived unfortunately. 3 points though im happy . enjoy the weekend early now watchin all the other results without having to keep one eye on us.

Thought it was a pen as well, Bale is obviously a marked man for refs now.
Seriously concerned about Walkers form just doesn't look the same player as last season and Adebayor missed two sitters and as has been said, needs a wake up call. Otherwise another good 3 points

Don't that look pretty? PL table @ 1545hrs 29/12/2012 . . .. .



1 Man Utd 20 21 49
2 Man City 20 19 42
3 Tottenham 20 10 36
4 Chelsea 18 20 35
5 Everton 19 9 33
6 West Brom 20 4 33
7 Arsenal 18 14 30
8 Swansea 20 5 28
9 Stoke 20 2 28
10 Liverpool 19 2 25
11 Norwich 20 -9 25
12 West Ham 19 -1 23
13 Sunderland 20 -5 22
14 Fulham 20 -6 21
15 Newcastle 19 -7 20
16 Southampton 19 -9 19
17 Wigan 20 -15 18
18 Aston Villa 20 -22 18
19 Reading 20 -15 13
20 QPR 19 -17 10

to think of the everton 3 points we threw away and the late goals we conceded we be 2nd now
wheres lew lol

AVB making good use of the squad, unlike Harry. Now we have a fresh Verts, Sigg, Dempsey, Parker can give Sandro a rest and we still have Benny and Kaboul to come back, happy days!!

yep hes been takin of lennon so he dont over do it and now bale gets a rest

also defoe sandro and verts where one game away from susspension and that will now be wipied

When will a ref have the gonads to actually give a pen or free kick to Bale? Atkinson was nowhere near the incident, but gave a booking because of who it was.

Be interesting to see who plays against Reading now that both Bale and Defoe are out. Can't see AVB wanting to rely on Ade