Match Thread Sunderland 1-1 Everton - Monday 3rd November 2025

[BlueTX]

Was begging for Alcaraz at half, but he was as woeful as KDH.

Thank God for Skiliman.

 

[Saint Domingo]

We’re one of the slowest most ponderous hesitant team in the league. No conviction in anything we do.

Apart from hand balling which we seem to be great at. How do we manage to handle nearly every cross in the box?!

 

[Rodebaard]

First 25 minutes fine. Then we were awful. Too many cloggers in the team. Defence has to be the worst bunch of yard dogs in the league, so there is no craft at all bringing it forward. Garner had a poor game for me too, missing again. KDH is not a 10, he's never claimed to be so why try and play him there. Barry should have stayed on, yes his missed a sitter, but what good is it bringing him off for Beto? Also, what's happened to McNeil? I know he's limited but he looks so far off it it's untrue

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Well that second half was a crock of Shabate, will we ever learn to be able to pass the ball under pressure, I’ve beat this drum before but our passing is woeful under pressure.

 

[mahermi1]

We didn't deserve to win, we were awful for three quarters of that game. The centre midfield needs a really good look at themselves, second best all through it. That game was there for the taking, we needed subs at half time, we didn't have a brave manager to do it. Moyes is to safe in my view, Beto hardly touched the ball would have been better keeping Barry on, Alcaraz and Rohl at half time should have been the changes, we were over run in midfield how Moyes never saw that was mind boggling. Tim played well when he came on the only one of the subs. Alcaraz fluffed his lines, tried to hard to make a difference but was NOT given enough time and rushed it. KDH needs replacing at 10, but Moyes won't do it.
Pissed off by that second half non performance.

 

[NathDogg]

Imagine how Dibling must feel as well LL seeing McNeil come on before him.

More horrendous management from Moyes.

Criminal really.

 

[TheNinja]

Totally agree, Sunderland were shocking to start but managed to get back into the game and controlled it, we never seem to be able to lift ourselves out of low points in games, once the rot sets in that’s it for the rest of the game, we have no leaders in midfield who can get their foot on the ball and dictate play, we were truly atrocious tonight and should’ve lost.

Would be interesting to see the number of mistakes and unforced errors we made in the 2nd half. McNeil made about 6 himself within 15 minutes.

We seem to make 1 mistake and then completely combust every time we get the ball after that.

I said we wouldn't cope under their press, and once they actually bothered doing it after half an hour, we were screwed.

The amount of headers and challenges we also lose (or don't even try to compete for) is astounding.

 

[WilliamBoo]

Moyes will say or think it's a good result, but it isn't. We could have won with a bit more daring.

 

[slipstream86]

60 minutes+ of doing absolutely nothing. Really poor performance…not in spite of the facts we could have put the game to bed with the Barry chance, or nicked it at the end when Charlie was through… but because of them

 

[Gerbs]

Barry/beto can’t start up top again. How many dropped points are we going to accept?

 

[HappyJack]

New Stadium but all the old problems

 

[Bluerover]

We make more unenforced errors than in a tennis match

No mate ours are enforced errors. Enforced by absolute rubbish mentality.

 

[jazzy]

If Moyes selects that same team on Saturday he may as well not come out of the tunnel.

You know he will .

 

[lieneverton]

You could almost feel the confidence drain out of them with the Barry miss.
Not blaming him, strikers miss chances, but two up and we are cruising.

I'm more fuming with daft lad Tarkowski sticking his foot out for the deflection.
SAF used to go mad at his defenders for doing that. I saw Rio Ferdinand talking about it.

I also thought we were lucky with the handball, I would have wanted a penalty, and the kick in the head, seen them given as well.

Yeah, the goal wasn't unlucky - its because nobody cleared their lines, then Tarkowski takes an age to adjust his feet. Him and Keane are scary to watch, turning circles of a cruise liner.

 

[Zezti]

It's seriously concerning when we have 3 summer signings on the bench and the manager doesn't think they have it in them to make a difference and find a winner.