Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Coventry City FC – Sunday 31st July 2022 - KO 12:00

Yeah we are still short.

Decent enough point. I think Coventry will be a top 8 side this season.

 

Disappointing after being ahead but I’ll take that

three defenders on bench you weren’t planning to use and just one midfielder cost us

 

Aye they do have some quality players

 

Happy enough with that we look half decent nowt to be scared of in this league really

 

My exact thoughts. Awful challenge and I can't believe he only got a yellow for it

 

We lost our way when he took Embo & Pritchard off. Not enough pressing up front. Defo need more/better options in the middle & up top

 

Fair result. If anything lucky to get a point imo. Second half we made almost nothing.

need more options after embo and Pritchard when off. I’m sorry but O’Nien can’t do that role.

 

Not a great second half that. We gave them the invite we didnt need to. In some ways we got what we deserved as we were playing for the 1-0 last 20 mins and that wont work often in this league. Once Pritch went off our work ethic was noticeably less. Thought ONien and Evans both could have done better for the goal, but he is a very very good striker and showed it.

All in all a point is not the worst and hopefully some of them learn lessons.

 

Too many basic errors, draw probably a fair result. I'll take it overall, as a first game back.

I'd be looking to upgrade on Evans, if we can. I was also left thinking I wish we had Broadhead to bring on in that last 20 mins. Sign him up.

 

A good point and could have been 3, but for a very fine shot out of the blue. Still work to do but we all knew that .

 

should have been red for that.

 

Definitely need another CM but a lot more positives than negatives today. They are well organised championship side and we caused them problems.

Some of the movement upfront was really good

 

Can't argue with that, we were better first half and they had the second so 1-1 is fair. Thought we were going to nick one at the end there good to see us going to the whistle.

Overall a good performance, tbh I didn't know how we were going to do but we looked comfortable at the higher level.

 

Tough game, and good to come away with the point overall. It was just a pity we couldn't hang onto the lead. I think Coventry are a fairly decent team in the Championship, so I'm not too disappointed at not getting the win. We just didn't seem to keep our composure at times, and needed to hang onto the ball better when we got possession back.

 

We developed a big hole in centre midfield once they went off

 

will take the draw in all honesty but we certainly lost our way second half.

first half was excellent from the lads and coventry had few sniffs of goal, second half i feel we started okay but then came that strange bit where they got every single foul and we got nowt and that more than anything seemed to change the game.

our luck has certainly not changed mind, we rarely get the 'bounce of the ball' even at one stage a coventry player went to clear the ball, it hit one of his team mates and bounced to another coventry player, we just never seem to get those breaks.

onien should have walked at the end, horrible tackle and ballard needs to learn to defend without grappling, confusion from the officials at times which i had hoped would be left behind in league 1 but the first one is out of the way and we did not disgrace ourselves, in fact we probably showed we are better than what many were thinking....long way to go yet.

 

Don't know what the radio commentary was saying but while they won possession over 90minutes. they played mostly infront of us and we looked the most dangerous. We fell back when Pritchard went off, I don't think we have anyone else to do his job. Good point against a very good Coventry side.

 

Shame we couldn't of held on to win our first game back in the league.
But it's a point on the board. Onwards and upwards.

 

Agree, very poor tackle

 

After watching Burnley on Friday night and us today. I'm no longer convinced we are going to win the league