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Sunderland v Arsenal Saturday Nov 8th 530 PM

GooneriC

Arteta is too cowardly man , he knows aerial balls are their threat and still tried to defend with all that time left. Saka was gassed , Zubi looked tired , we really should have got MLS Nwaneri and Dowman on and killed them. Its poor management again , thats 2 massive points dropped after working so hard to get in front. Disappointing game in the end.

banduan

Coombs we just needed fresh legs. Not some big brain tactical change.

Coombs

banduan maybe, maybe. I don't know that it's so obvious as that. Wrong subs and you can totally collapse in a game like this. Coming up to that level of intensity in an instant is not easy.

Qwiss

banduan yep we had control and handed it to them.

Klaus

Panda Spanish keeper, they're all like that unfortunately. Germans can't deal with high balls, Spaniards can't stay on their line. I'm yet to see a case where these stereotypes aren't true in Premier League.

Don Pacifico

Klaus I actually think it could have been fine. Need to see the replay again but my instant reaction was that Raya didn't come out with much conviction/promptly enough.

Either way it's on Raya (and Gabby).

SimplyThePest

Dom yep, Arteta shit himself and tried to shut up shop. All it did was invite a bombardment as we had no outlets to play the ball to when we won it back.

Nwaneri and Dowman for some pace on the break while Sunderland were pushing forward?

Lukazan

No wasn't the right time for someone like MLS coming on imo.

Could Cali have done more with his header for our chance at the end?

Klaus

Lukazan If he'd been a striker it would have been harder and higher probably, but it's hard to blame a leftback for that. He did well to pop up and get it on goal I reckon. Maybe we should have had someone reacting quicker to the rebound though?

swider

Coombs
And this is exactly what happened.

Mirth

Coombs in the last 15 minutes the players were completely gassed. Even refreshing 2-3 more would have been enough - the bench wasn’t enough if we needed another goal but we had plenty of defensive options

HomeSteak

Mirth yep, and so late just to fragment the game would have been good. It's fine we move, our boys are coming back

Gurgen

That’s the most undeserved equaliser I’ve seen in my life. We played well, ref was an utter joke. How that left back and that Shawcross clone #5 stayed on the pitch I’ll never know.

tazmania

City or Liverpool can cut the lead tomorrow, I'm praying they draw

CPM

Really, people are complaining about Nwaneri and Dowman not coming on? Dowman is 15 and Nwaneri has been nothing special this season, and that was a very intense atmosphere.

Dom

CPM

Nwaneri has been fine in the league. Putting on an extra defender and taking off a midfielder left a massive hole in the middle and we went from being in total control to letting Sunderland launch shit into the box over and over.

est

Results like these happen during the course of the season. As long as we don't make it a habit, it's not a big problem.

Now can we please get our attackers fit again!

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

est Now can we please get our attackers fit again!

When they are, we'll lose Gabriel, Zubimendi and Raya.

USArsenal

Meatwad

Come on, this was literally the first time we did it this season, and we were without ALL of our attackers. Im shocked we managed 2 goals.

Meatwad

USArsenal
scoring 2 means that was more than enough, that's about what we would get if healthy. it was the elite defense's job to bring this home and they failed. no team threw away more points from winning positions than us last season and it's just november so we have more than enough time to catch up.

Klaus

Don Pacifico Yeah it might've been the conviction that was lacking. Have to commit to something even if you're gonna bowl over your teammate.

It was also a deadly good finish to be honest, and I don't think he quite meant it.

Lukazan

Klaus Yeah fair, I've only seen the replay a couple of times tbh, just a snatching observation.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

What were we playing at before they equalised FFS?

est

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert We we're physically shot. Dead on our feet.

Panda

Yeah he should have made more use of the bench maybe he thought would be hard for the subs to get up to the intensity. But we dropped way too deep and kept hoofing it out. Very frustrating.

Coombs

Panda it's game state. We were only able to get out after they scored because they had equalized, and we had one last rally to try and win it. You aren't going to get that before the equalizer goes in. Especially in a game like this.

Don Pacifico

At least Sky are calling him just Dan Ballard again.

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