WBA53 match thread

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Originally Posted by Bombers right foot

We need to match the energy and commitment of the opposition otherwise we will be turned over, at times we look like we are playing walking five a side football, more guts and steel required especially v teams like Rotherham, we all saw what happened last season against them.
Losing Wallace, Phillips and now Maja is not ideal but whoever replaces them needs to step up

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Pretty much the way I see it. We badly need at least 6 pts from next 3 games..play offs gonna be 2 teams out of about 8. Think Southampton and either Leeds/ipswich be the other two .lets hope takeover by Januarys end just gives everyone a boost we need and deserve

We seemed to set up 2nd half for the draw, particularly when Maja was replaced by Fellows. Whilst the latter deserves to play, surely Asante, despite his height, was his preferred substitution ?
We reverted to backing off and invited their attack, from which they grew in confidence. Once they scored we reverted to a more pressing game and started to threaten.
Overall Sunderland deserved their victory.
Molumby struggled and his replacement Chalobah was worse.
Don’t mind losing to a better side, but cross that our mistakes cost us dearly.

No easy matches in this league. Just Watching QPR (third from bottom) could have been 4 up by now. Playing Hull off the park.

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Originally Posted by boingy

Ballard man of the match when even Kevin Phillips said he was lucky to not be sent off after both feet left the floor to injure Maja. Weird ref decisions today.

Proud of the lads. We will go on another run soon.

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Def red card, but on the other hand, def onside and goal by Bellingham.

Pen for Sarmiento at the end!? Def unnecessary and risky challenge by O’Nien.

Poor ref on the whole.

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Originally Posted by SwedishBaggie

Def red card, but on the other hand, def onside and goal by Bellingham.

Pen for Sarmiento at the end!? Def unnecessary and risky challenge by O’Nien.

Poor ref on the whole.

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He was. It’s a tough league and I think we are doing great considering we can’t seem to ever have any luck with strikers. Corberan is doing a great job. Sunderland played well today and we did miss Yokuslu and Phillips. Just a game we lost is all, certainly not time to jump off a building.

Beaten by a younger hungrier team, you can't compete in this division if you don't turn up a shocking performance by the officials as well and yet again we come out with another injury.

Sadly for the second week running we Baggies are left disappointed. It was never going to be easy and with the squad as thin as it is these injuries are likely going to tell come May.

We need a takeover to happen as soon as possible. It has to be the right person this time. Not some multimillionaire but someone who at least has the club at heart.

Not losing faith, never will but wish we could be a little more consistent.

Had the game been played with VAR, I think we would have seen:

1-0 Bellingham
Red card Ballard
Red card Furlong (elbowing Pritchard)
Pen for Sarmiento

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Originally Posted by SwedishBaggie

Had the game been played with VAR, I think we would have seen:

1-0 Bellingham
Red card Ballard
Red card Furlong (elbowing Pritchard)
Pen for Sarmiento

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The above says it all about the refs…

Had the ref done his job properly and sent Ballard off, Sunderland would have had to play for a long time with ten men, could very well have seen the match pan out very differently.