V Sunderland

[gavin]

Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias (C), Guéhi, Gvardiol, Anderson, Fernández, Ndiaye, Cherki, Semenyo, Haaland

Subs: Rulli, Kovačić, Doku, Aït-Nouri, Bouaddi, O'Reilly, Allan, Khusanov, Lewis

[Stephen Paul]

Decent line up that

Big win required

[Stephen Paul]

We are wide open at the back ffs

[gavin]

This is getting ridiculous, just as I was about to type that we should be comfortable now, we concede a third.

[Stephen Paul]

Donnarumma having a bloody nightmare

[Stephen Paul]

Definitely a penalty 

[Vickki]

No sugar coating it, we were crap all game!
Pleased we got the win.

[KunDB]

I do not think we were crap all game.

I think we had weaknesses exposed. Our captain was easily exposed and out-fought mostly sadly. Our defence was not playing on the same sheet at times, however, our midfield was not in control enough exposing our defence far too often.

But we scored 5 which cannot be ignored.

We need to tighten up as a unit in future if we are to win the PL and we need to get more robust against physical and fast break counter attack teams. Sort out the team attack-defence balance.

All that said, this is a young team that barely has played together after a summer of manor surgery and a new manager and management team. So hard to complain about teething issues.

Great win and result.

15/15 points cannot be knocked, even if the wins were far from perfection.

C.mon City