We may have had control of possession for the majority of the first 35 mins, but I don't remember a clear cut chance. They had less of the ball but should have been more than one up at half time. They created 3 or 4 chances that I would expect the majority of premier league teams to put away. We've taken the piss out of the sh*te for tika taka but there were times when we seemed to be passing it round on the edge of their box for the sake of it. We also seemed to want to walk it in for some reason. I was glad we mixed it up a bit more after the break. Sunderland do not concede many goals so to score 2 against them when the pressure was on (being behind, clock ticking down) shouldn't be taken for granted.
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I don't mind that, in fact the thing that pleased me was that we had the discipline to keep the ball on the ground and not hoof it
hopefully into the box. We were sloppy at times, but overall we need to keep playing like that. I hope Gerrard was watching!
Looking back over the last five matches, we've actually lead for a total of only about half an hour but haven't lost any of them.
That shows that there's a lot of backbone in the team and I look forward to us having a bit of luck, for a change. Apart from at Wigan, we haven't had much.
