Sunderland 1-0 Everton. 20th Apr @ 15.00.

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Pienaar and Osman have both been ****e for ages, they both need to be dropped. Since this season is pretty much over Moyes should give the younger players a chance.

Fckin awful today.

 

[billycopper]

anything over than a citeh win tomorrow spells the end mate even then they have a game in hand and we will obviously drop the usual points at analfield.

actually its over FFS

I'd be surprised if they beat City tomorrow. Let's be generous and give them a point. So they'd be 3 points ahead of us with a game in hand.

Their run in is:
Wigan (A)
So'ton (H)
Chelsea (A)
Stoke (A)
Sunderland (H)

Wigan have won their last two home games against Newcastle and Norwich.
Southampton are undefeated in their last three away matches (Norwich, Reading, Swansea).
Chelsea have won five and drawn one of their last six games at Stamford Bridge.
Stoke have been very poor even at home unfortunately.
If Sunderland show the same spirit they could get something at the Lane, where Spurs have only taken one point from the last six available.

If the injury to Bale has knocked him out of his goal-scoring stride Tottenham could find almost all of those matches uncomfortable. They haven't won a game in April and the last time they won without Bale scoring was on New Year's Day!

 

[Ring master]

I know one thing,i am getting more and more annoyed the more i think about today's game,instead of getting clamer,even though the game ended nearly 4 hours ago lol-they dont half annoy me when they show no effort or no heart,at least get beat showing both then we knew we were beat by been unlucky etc-would not even say sunderland were brilliant but they only needed that one goal as it looked like we could play forever without scoring today at times

 

[Bluenose1995]

I'd be surprised if they beat City tomorrow. Let's be generous and give them a point. So they'd be 3 points ahead of us with a game in hand.

Their run in is:
Wigan (A)
So'ton (H)
Chelsea (A)
Stoke (A)
Sunderland (H)

Wigan have won their last two home games against Newcastle and Norwich.
Southampton are undefeated in their last three away matches (Norwich, Reading, Swansea).
Chelsea have won five and drawn one of their last six games at Stamford Bridge.
Stoke have been very poor even at home unfortunately.
If Sunderland show the same spirit they could get something at the Lane, where Spurs have only taken one point from the last six available.

If the injury to Bale has knocked him out of his goal-scoring stride Tottenham could find almost all of those matches uncomfortable. They haven't won a game in April and the last time they won without Bale scoring was on New Year's Day!

it would mean us winning every match from now mate, I cant see that with games away to the RS and Chelsea.

Think we needed to win today to give us that margin for failure in one of those games sadly its over IMO

just want a big shape up in the summer

Out
Felliani £25 mil
Jelavic £5 mil
Heitinga £2 mil
Gueye £1 mil

In
1x ST
2x CM
1x CAM
1x CB

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Not surprised at all that we put in a gutless performance today, so predictable under the Moyes era.

 

[TX Bill]

This match has banana peel written all over it.

After our match against Arsenal, and regardless that we need the three points, I could actually see us having a let down in this match and losing it.

Sunderland (with DiCanio) are flying high after their derby win.

I'm hoping we can nick it though.

Everton 1 - 0 Sunderland

Wrong on the score.

Dead on regarding how the match turned out. Really no surprise if we're going to be honest.

 

[davek]

Nothing left to play for now, so put the peripheral players in. I expect any right minded manager who wants to stick around and build on the foundations to be giving game time to Duffy, Oviedo, Barkley, McAleny, Stones, Kennedy etc

 

[Allezfan]

Nothing left to play for now, so put the peripheral players in. I expect any right minded manager who wants to stick around and build on the foundations to be giving game time to Duffy, Oviedo, Barkley, McAleny, Stones, Kennedy etc

So expect moyes to play the old pros then?

 

[TX Bill]

hi bill how are you today bad result.

I'm fine buddy. Hope you're well.

Bad result to be sure but not unexpected at all.

 

[davek]

So expect moyes to play the old pros then?

Yep.

 

[Allezfan]

Yep.

I'm honestly not sure I can take another year of moyes/kenwright. Waiting to see if one of them will leave before I buy a season ticket.

 

[Bluenose1995]

its the Redcoat that needs to go not Moyes if we had ellis short as owner we would of had Fer on the pitch instead of Osman and Negredo instead of Anichebe thats the difference.

wish the fans would wake up to the situation

 

[gonetomorrow]

I'm sure it's been said but we were all over these Sunderland people and couldn't create a chance. Hopeless.

 

[Titus Bramble]

Just got back. Pretty shocking performance all round, I think it's obvious to see that most of our regular 1st teamers are either knackered or carrying niggling injuries and I'm sure the effort of the Arsenal game took its toll on us today. The biggest annoyance though is that they are a shocking team as well. All of their chances came from our mistakes and stupid free kicks around our box.

Can't be arsed reading through the whole thread, but does anyone know the rules on the passback thing? Deliberate handball and stopping a clear goal scoring opportunity (it was going in) is surely a red card, even for a keeper? Not that it would have made much difference to the result like.

 

[Aberblue]

Just got back. Pretty shocking performance all round, I think it's obvious to see that most of our regular 1st teamers are either knackered or carrying niggling injuries and I'm sure the effort of the Arsenal game took its toll on us today. The biggest annoyance though is that they are a shocking team as well. All of their chances came from our mistakes and stupid free kicks around our box.

Can't be arsed reading through the whole thread, but does anyone know the rules on the passback thing? Deliberate handball and stopping a clear goal scoring opportunity (it was going in) is surely a red card, even for a keeper? Not that it would have made much difference to the result like.

The referee correctly applied the Law in this instance. There may well be an inconsistency in that a clear goalscoring opportunity was prevented, but as the Law stands a booking is the sanction applied in such a case. Your first paragraph hit the nail on the head concerning the players' lack of form. It's no secret that Baines hasn't been 100% fit for weeks, and it's also known that Gibson needs an operation, while Osman was also clearly not at his best. Apparently Anichebe was taken off because he was injured too.