Sunderland vs Norwich - 1:30pm - Sky Sports

Paully D

I'm not sure if anyone wants to bore themselves to death, but if you do Sunderland play Norwich at 1:30pm on Sky Sports 1.

The teams:

Mignolet, Gardner, Rose, O'Shea (c), Cuellar, Vaughan, Larsson, Johnson, Sessegnon, Fletcher, Graham.

Subs: Bardsley, N'Diaye, Wickham, Colback, Bramble, McClean, Westwood.

Bunn; R.Martin (C), Bassong, Turner, Garrido; Johnson, Howson, E.Bennett, Snodgrass, Hoolahan; Kamara.

Subs: Camp; Whittaker, Holt, Jackson, Fox, Becchio, R.Bennett.

Probably the biggest game Sunderland have played in quite some time. Win and we have some breathing space from the relegation spots, lose and we're in big, big trouble as we'll probably take 0 points from our next four games (Manchester United, Chelsea, Newcastle and Everton).

We've had a couple of these games in recent times (Reading and West Ham) and somehow won both 3-0 so I'm going to be optimistic and say we take the 3 points here.

2-0 Sunderland (I hope!).

The_Kew_Tour

Fancy Sunderland by odd goal.

mike65

Two goal game at most I'll go with 1-1. What's the story with Becchio? He was brought in to score goals but he's not played much football.

Cantona's Collars

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Fancy Sunderland by odd goal.

0-0 with Bunn to save a penalty,my FF weekend needs this!

I've a feeling this could outdo United v Reading for the title of most boring game of the season.

BeanFlicker

Not going to be a cracker of a game but hopefully we should come away with the 3points, 2pts from the last 18 is very worrying

Great to see Rose back in the starting 11, and good to see MON sticking with Graham partnering Fletcher upfront.

2-1 to Sunderland I think (hope)

Nalz

Anyone having probs with SkyGo?

EDIT: Sorted it, problems with MS Silverlight

Paully D

zerks wrote: »

0-0 with Bunn to save a penalty,my FF weekend needs this!

I've a feeling this could outdo United v Reading for the title of most boring game of the season.

Manchester United vs Reading looked like El Clasico compared to many Sunderland games this season.

Jax Teller

2 free headers shocking stuff from Sunderland

ctrl-alt-delete

1-0 Norwich, soft goal to give away.

Easy one for Hoolihan.

Mars Bar

Terrible making in the box there

ctrl-alt-delete

Things just got interesting.

IvySlayer

Keeper sent off

Nemanja91

zerks wrote: »

0-0 with Bunn to save a penalty,my FF weekend needs this!

I've a feeling this could outdo United v Reading for the title of most boring game of the season.

LOL

BeanFlicker

zerks wrote: »

0-0 with Bunn to save a penalty,my FF weekend needs this!

I've a feeling this could outdo United v Reading for the title of most boring game of the season.

IvySlayer

zerks is crying :P

monkey9

Hot cross Bunn

BeanFlicker

Good effort, really need to kick on now against 10 men

Paully D

Only one more Norwich goal until we start playing :rolleyes:

monkey9

It was such a poor decision by the ref. The thing is, he only guessed at what happened and his guess is wrong.

Will I Amnt

Anyone else think the red was a bit harsh?
Ball was struck at him from point blank range.

Edit: Thought there was another touch just before it hit the keeper. Still a bit harsh though.

IvySlayer

Sunderland penalty? This is mad...

ctrl-alt-delete

That Irish flag is bringing Sunderland a whole heap of luck,

Gardner is due to miss one.

Harsh again.

monkey9

Very very harsh!

ctrl-alt-delete

Super penalty, you don't stop them.

ctrl-alt-delete

Just looking again, offside could have even been called there before the penalty.

IvySlayer

Mad match!

BeanFlicker

Harsh penalty alright but I'm not going to complain, good finish.!

Professional Griefer

Was it a peno since the sunderland player was offside?

Unbelievable peno.

kensutz

Officials are a ****ing disaster. Everything against us

BobbyPropane

Two decisions were correct. You cant use your arm to control the ball even if it rolls onto it especially in the penalty box.

For the goalkeeper, the ball clearly hit his elbow.

kensutz

They were offside before Bassong even "handled" the ball.

Esse85

Gardner's crossing has been awful, keeps hitting the first man.

ITT-Pat

monkey9 wrote: »

It was such a poor decision by the ref. The thing is, he only guessed at what happened and his guess is wrong.

No way was it a poor decision by the ref. When have you ever seen any outfield player get away with trying to 'chest' the ball down like this?



Never a peno though, the Sunderland attacker should have been flagged for offside.

Paully D

Wickham for Graham please, Martin.

Nalz

Paully D wrote: »

Wickham for Graham please, Martin.

Graham is one of those players who rarely plays well but can always nick a goal. Frustrating striker!

ctrl-alt-delete

Should have been a penalty.

Jax Teller

Holy Jaysus disgraceful by the officials

Mars Bar

That was inside the box...

The officials only got the sending off correct so far.

Paully D

Bloody hell, if we don't win this game with all this luck I give up.

Nalz

Jax Teller wrote: »

Holy Jaysus disgraceful by the officials

Worse than Fellani yesterday.

kensutz

Linesman fails to see Bennett's jersey being pulled in front of his eyes. Fails to see Rose handled in the area. Absolute gimps

BeanFlicker

Jeasus, can't say decisions aren't going our way, very fortunate that wasn't a peno

BobbyPropane

Paully D wrote: »

Bloody hell, if we don't win this game with all this luck I give up.

We won't win with Johnson and Larsson on the field. Useless

Will I Amnt

Norwich just not catching a break at all.

BobbyPropane

Disgraceful booing of McClean

BeanFlicker

Just not going to happen!!

Paully D

We're going down. 0 points from the next four games is almost guaranteed.

kensutz

Decent point for 10 players against 14.

BeanFlicker

60 mins against 10 men, decisions going our way and still we're rubbish, tough 4 games coming up including a derby, we're fooked.!

COYVB

Sunderland in serious, serious trouble.

COYVB

Paully D wrote: »

We're going down. 0 points from the next four games is almost guaranteed.

The only saving grace is that it's difficult to see any of the bottom 3 making up the ground necessary over that 4 game period - however if Sunderland keep up this form for the rest of the season, it could be a worrying last day of the season for you. Particularly if Villa were safe, and Wigan needed a win against them to stay up at Sunderland's expense... I wouldn't be betting on Villa to do a huge amount of favours