cant for the life of me figure out why MON changed Maloney for Young early in the game, Maloney was doing well on the left, had plenty of space and always wanted the ball and tried to take players on, then MON swaps him and puts Maloney on the right and young on the left, from that moment we didnt look like creating anything.
Reo-Coker was shocking, always looked like he was 2 passes behind the game, when he had the ball he could have played it out wide, instead he waited, waited and waited before deciding to pass, only for the ball to be charged down and sunderland to attack us on the counter. really disapointing performance from a player that cost nearly 9million english pounds.
Gardner? he looked like he hadnt played football before, every time he got the ball he gave it back to a sunderland player, and although he isnt a defender, he didnt do the basics. if in doubt, kick it out. to often he let sunderland players run past him.
Zat Knight, as MON said when he signed him, Zat can play extremely well one game, then very poor the next, this was a performance from the latter. failed to mark his player on numerous ocaisions.
Carson? he is trying to hard, coming to claim balls he shouldnt be, if you look at sunderlands goal, he runs out, stops, steps back before running out again.
a very disapointing performance, not helped by our bench, Maloney for Osbourne says it all.