Sunderland - v - Leeds United *** Matchday Thread***

[Rev72]

If you look at our form over the last 10 games we are one of the form teams.

We have more points at this stage of the season that Burnley did last year.

Short turn around from Saturday and as many have said we looked lethargic and increasingly so as the game wore on.

Conditions won’t have helped.

When fit and fresh out best XI is a match for anything but when tired Farke doesn’t seem to rotate much.

Gruev is an international and has hardly played. Cresswell, Joffy, Anthony etc all have had little time on the pitch if any.

High points - we were in the game for 90 mins, Spence looked decent, Gnonto looked dangerous when he came on and Meslier had some very good moments in the game.

Agree with whoever said the ref was quite lenient with a lot of the challenges in the first 30 minutes and didn’t show any cards to them in that period.

3 points against Ipswich would be a great bounce back.

Agree hopey the Ref was a homer for sure.

Sunderland had our number last night with their tactics but in truth they were fortunate with the goal , but at times I also thought we were poor defending set plays , need to pick up 3 pts on Saturday and beat Ipswich Saturday after then it's game on again.

My gut feeling at this moment is play-offs but obviously hoping I am wrong...but this is Leeds United