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

[BlueTX]

At least KDH played well first half. Alcaraz was absolutely shocking when he came on.

KDH gave the ball away easily 4-5 times in the first half and couldn't deliver through balls on a couple of other occasions. Granted, he's playing out of position, but, for me, he's not doing the job.

Need attacking midfield sorted as much as RB and LB (and striker).

 

[stretford blue]

….hard work, certainly settle for a point after they equalised so early in the 2nd half.

I have to think the Barry miss took the wind out of our sails, we were not the same after that moment. Could explain lots of poor performances after a bright start.

Think it’s the first time Alcaraz hasn’t picked a key pass when running at goal like he did. Pretty much summed us up in possession. I can see Barry starting again at the weekend, despite the miss he was better overall than Beto.

Keane MOM.

Understand Barry got a yellow but would have kept him on longer there was some signs of improvement the miss was a killer for us and demoralising for Barry a goal might just be the turning point for him
Agreed Keane was superb

 

[BenToffee79]

Rohl and Dibling no where near it why isn’t he giving these players mins ,yet he sticks with the likes of dewsbury hall doing nothing again and don’t even get me started on the McNeil sub a guy who’s looked space jammed all season long

 

[Ged G]

remember remember the 3rd of november

gunpowder, treason and.... a point

 

[witchdoc187]

Shocking performance. Believe it or not, I really try not to go in on Moyes, despite being honest that I don’t like him, but it’s stuff like that that causes it.

He has very much reverted to type. Like for like substitutions only. Can't change his beloved shape, that never works anyway. I feel like I've been watching the same David Moyes movie for a quarter of a century. We have been huffing and puffing (with moments of quality) to just score the one goal. Then, as soon as the opposition applies the slightest pressure, we start ceding them the entirety of the pitch, basically sitting on our goal line, and then look really panicky and amateur, just kicking the ball up in the air, and anywhere it will go.

Plus, certain players will be allowed to stink the gaff out for a few weeks in a row - KDH, JOB, Tarkowski etc. and they will be judged to a different standard to Alcaraz, who had about 10 minutes to try and force something and made a couple of mistakes, but has done more ro earn us points than KDH has (and I like KDH).

I heard this week that Moyes isn’t impressed with Dibling and thought it was nonsense. But that McNeil sub proves it. McNeil is one of the worst forward players we have ever had, but has also been phoning it in since going down the pecking order, yet he gets given a chance.

He'll probably complete the set by telling us it was a good point next. I try not to say too much on Moyes as we chug along as to criticise him is to the majority of our fanbase, as it has always been, a blasphemy.

He burns my head, and this league is awful, truly awful. Just full of physical teams who have pace and take long throws, and look at the part of the table we are in. He needs to sort it out.

Rant over.

We would have had that match wrapped up before half time if not for Barry and bad luck.

 

[Gilbert..]

A disappointing result really. But I think we’re resigned to a really boring season. No chance of flirting with relegation, but it would be optimistic (but not impossible mind you) to see us push for the higher European places. What I wouldn’t have given for a boring season after the last few we’ve had. But somehow, boring doesn’t seem much fun.

Im not totally convinced about no chance of flirting with relegation. Personally i dont think we're showing enough to be in the no chance category.

 

[ArtetaMagic]

KDH was good in the first half. In the second he had a few decent moments, but consistently failed to get the weight of his passes correct.

But Alcaraz is completely overrated by some on here. There is a reason he was available on such generous terms.

Give Alcaraz 80 minutes in that position and we'll create more. I like kdh, but he's rubbish at 10

 

[matty1878]

How did Moyes change that game positively Matty?

That's the mark of a good manager

he didn’t we got half second half

like i said first half if its 0-2
we’ve won

we wasn’t guna keep sunderland quiet
0-1

 

[Titus Shambles]

Some weird money laundering scheme or blackmailing going on with some of our signings, they make no sense.

we've probably been the worst recruiters of players over the last near-decade, season in season out, absolutely nothing has changed, but "something something new era, something something soon back were we belong"

 

[jceverton]

What happened to the moyes who took over last season. Got 31 points.

Where's he gone

Basically demanded to be put in charge of transfers and showed exactly why he shouldn’t have been.

 

[the golden visionary]

I posted mid second half how Sunderland had played the conditions so much better than we had. We were not good after half time but they scored via a bad deflection from a liability of a centre half, aside from that they huffed and puffed without creating anything material and we had at least two break away opportunities that the players, not the manager, should have done much, much better with. Re: the ‘no adaptation’ point, did we spend the first 30-mins punting it long? No, I didn’t think so.

Do you want a response or do you just want to ask yourself questions that push your narrative?

 

[JammyP]

If we had half the goals we should be putting away, we'd be dangerous, and not 14th. Seem to lose faith in themselves with every miss.

But better than losing

 

[bag a yoko]

You mean apart from being consistently better than KDH ?

Absolute nonsense.

How do you explain playing KDH every single game?

McNeil sub?
Gana bulletproof

Moyes is trying to get fired or what?

Moyes is at no risk.
He's did an excellent job last season and is leading us to midtable where we deserve to be.

 

[Ged G]

yet he sticks with the likes of dewsbury hall doing nothing again

are you serious?

 

[MikeyMike]

Moyes was right to hook Barry. First half he missed a sitter and picked up a ridiculously stupid yellow. Then, just before he got subbed, he failed to hold the ball up.

At that point the manager had seen enough. But it’s a massive problem of course. Neither of our strikers are anywhere near the level required in the PL.