WBA53 match thread

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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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Agree
Terrible officiating today

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Originally Posted by SwedishBaggie

The above says it all about the refs…

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More than likely all the things you said. Furlong was praised for keeping Clarke quiet for the best part. You can’t ever knock his commitment and a bit unusual to be aggressive to the point of a sending off, which I think could well have happened.

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Originally Posted by Prando

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.

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Just shows that Carlos knows his best 11. Molumby and Chalobah clearly second best to Yokuslu and Mowatt.

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Originally Posted by boingy

Just shows that Carlos knows his best 11. Molumby and Chalobah clearly second best to Yokuslu and Mowatt.

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Indeed boingy buddy.
I wish that Molumby had Chalobah’s composure … and that Chalobah had Molumby’s spirit and commitment !