Sunderland vs West Ham Utd | PL | 16.8.25 | Predictions & Match Thread

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Odds:
:Sunderland: 2/1
Draw: 9/4
WHU: 5/4



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[threesixty]

Just watched man utd/arsenal. God we're in trouble 

 

 

Man Utd look way different, so do Spurs this season. We really look like the worst team in the league. Funny thing is it’s not a fluke, we looked exactly the same last season as well. I even think on the form table if the league started in Jan we would have been relegated. I still dont understand how a coach with that form managed to keep his job after 5 months of football. Surely thats unheard of? Even big Ange lost his job and he won the Europa league! Our board are some crazy people.

[9898]

Heard that it Was Fullkrug going radio rental, fists flying and Potter getting the fxck out to do his post match presser 

No, you're wrong. Falling for PR rubbish trying to show players care. 

[Hello Mrs. Jones]

Just watched man utd/arsenal. God we're in trouble 

[Swiss.]

If you are going to play 3-5-2 your wing backs actually have wide. They didn’t stretched the back 3 wide which created space inside. Potter is clueless. 

This was always going to be intensive game with what atmosphere would be like. I wish this fixture would have been mid season . Like I’d rather be playing Chelsea when after a hard mid-week CL game. 

Not sure why Fullkrug is getting stick since he’s not getting and service and was involved in our best move. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Luis Guilherme was not available yesterday after breaking his collar bone.

Said EX.

Fantastic.

'Returning to football after a collarbone (clavicle) fracture typically takes 12-16 weeks or more, including rehabilitation. While the bone itself may heal in 6-8 weeks, full return to contact sports like football requires regaining full strength and range of motion in the shoulder, which can take additional time.'

Fingers crossed his youthfulness will aid speeding up his recovery a bit. 

An "injury" while the transfer window is still open? Chinny-Reckon on that one.

[Massive Attack]

Luis Guilherme was not available yesterday after breaking his collar bone.

Said EX.

Fantastic.

'Returning to football after a collarbone (clavicle) fracture typically takes 12-16 weeks or more, including rehabilitation. While the bone itself may heal in 6-8 weeks, full return to contact sports like football requires regaining full strength and range of motion in the shoulder, which can take additional time.'

Fingers crossed his youthfulness will aid speeding up his recovery a bit. 

[Massive Attack]

I actually think 1st game under the lights we'll turn it on against Chelsea. Crowd will be pissed but I reckon that energy could well work to our advantage in spurring the Team on and hopefully a much needed confidence boosting win to get up and running. Sometimes you need a big shock like yesterday to wake the useless fuckers up.

I’m not sure I’ve ever read such a deluded load of old bollocks.
This lot couldn’t turn it on against the Dagenham Girl Pipers, never mind the fucking club world champs.

I'm trying to be as positive as I can under the circumstances!

[Any Old Iron]

I actually think 1st game under the lights we'll turn it on against Chelsea. Crowd will be pissed but I reckon that energy could well work to our advantage in spurring the Team on and hopefully a much needed confidence boosting win to get up and running. Sometimes you need a big shock like yesterday to wake the useless fuckers up.

I’m not sure I’ve ever read such a deluded load of old bollocks.
This lot couldn’t turn it on against the Dagenham Girl Pipers, never mind the fucking club world champs.

[ragingbull]

Luis Guilherme was not available yesterday after breaking his collar bone.

Said EX.

[North Bank]

Potters a clown as was Loppy, but they're a symptom of the sex case that runs us, three centre backs of which none of them are dominant, two old men in the middle of the park with another in attack and no flair or creativity in the side 

If Sullivan stays I hope we go down and the whole pack of cards comes crumbling down 

[,]

It’s our defending again nicht war?

Conceding two open play headed goals does not bode well.

[Metroplex]

Anyone could have predicted what would happen after that idiot brought on Tomas "slow everything down" Soucek. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Stop moaning!

We're just 3 points off a Champions League spot!

As you were.

[Massive Attack]

Potter is a disaster. We all know that. 

Yet he was hyped up by Fans and Media alike thinking he was actually decent but now you all know that eh...Behave.  

Was he hyped up by fans? All I recall is people saying it’s refreshing to understand him after the waffling from Lopetegui.

I mean it’s the irony of it. You maintained all along Lopetegui was going to come good. We somehow looked even worse defensively under him, yet you were obsessed with the fella.

Anyway, neither appointment was right. It’s a shame some people are gleeful when we lose as they think it proves them right somehow. 

Yes, he was. And no I'm not fucking gleeful about our demise, I'm actually angry as fuck about how badly mismanaged the Board made of getting rid of Moyes to end up in this position. I wanted Emery before he went to Villa, I then wanted Glasner, then De Zerbi and Amorim before it looked like the Club would eventually go for Lopetegui. Then after just 6 months they get rid of him only to then reward a moron like Potter with a 2 and a half year contract having proved little in the game. I want what's best for our Club and we now have a mess of a situation, all of our own doing. And BS are laughing at all of us as they continue to coin it in at our expense. 

[Full Claret Jacket]

It didnt look any better seeing the highlights this morning. Potter doesnt seem to see that his system isnt working with these players. Or maybe he does but wants to force Sullivans hand to get him some midfielders. 
Sometimes you just have to change your side to get results. I cant say that I saw any player produce what we know they can. 

[Ron Eff]

Potter is a disaster. We all know that. 

Yet he was hyped up by Fans and Media alike thinking he was actually decent but now you all know that eh...Behave.  

Was he hyped up by fans? All I recall is people saying it’s refreshing to understand him after the waffling from Lopetegui.

I mean it’s the irony of it. You maintained all along Lopetegui was going to come good. We somehow looked even worse defensively under him, yet you were obsessed with the fella.

Anyway, neither appointment was right. It’s a shame some people are gleeful when we lose as they think it proves them right somehow. 

[honky cat]

Heard that it Was Fullkrug going radio rental, fists flying and Potter getting the fxck out to do his post match presser 

I just have a mental picture of Fulk completely naked bar a pair of sliders going berserk in the dressing room.

Shit we lost, but this is classic west ham rollercoaster

[Massive Attack]

Having suffered that I'm just relieved to be away for the 1st home game!

I actually think 1st game under the lights we'll turn it on against Chelsea. Crowd will be pissed but I reckon that energy could well work to our advantage in spurring the Team on and hopefully a much needed confidence boosting win to get up and running. Sometimes you need a big shock like yesterday to wake the useless fuckers up.

[northbankboy68]

Having suffered that I'm just relieved to be away for the 1st home game!

[Massive Attack]

Potter is a disaster. We all know that. 

Yet he was hyped up by Fans and Media alike thinking he was actually decent but now you all know that eh...Behave.  

[Ron Eff]

You must think we all have short memories, Massive. 

Potter is a disaster. We all know that. But you’re like a dog with a bone, loving it like it almost vindicates your Lopetegui obsession. 

Lopetegui was just as fucking bad, the difference being he had £45m to spend on a centre half, plus a fuck load more money that with the help of Stiedten and Sullivan, he has landed us with a disjointed shit squad.  That centre back who is actually the biggest problem in the whole team, that your favourite manager had coached before and was DESPERATE to get in. 

So yeah, Potter is shit, but as I said on another thread, you’ve got some real fucking front. 

[Massive Attack]

Not having this Fullkrug “man of the fans” shit.

That works when you’re performing and others aren’t. Today, he got absolutely dominated by a pork carcass that had been left in the sun for too long.

When he steps up, when he’s leading by example on the pitch, rather than in his head, then great: be the gobby cսnt. Until then, get your head down, play well and score some goals. He was poor today. Second to everything.



 

Yet another one of Steidtens excellent expensive signings we're lumbered with. The money that useless cսnt has wasted in his very short tenure is scandalous for the return we've got out of them. 

[Massive Attack]

Heard that it Was Fullkrug going radio rental, fists flying and Potter getting the fxck out to do his post match presser 

Now I'm beginning to warm more to the Carthorse!

[Massive Attack]

What the fuck happened today? Seems we are in full on circus mode. 

Just today..

[southbankbornnbred]

Not having this Fullkrug “man of the fans” shit.

That works when you’re performing and others aren’t. Today, he got absolutely dominated by a pork carcass that had been left in the sun for too long.

When he steps up, when he’s leading by example on the pitch, rather than in his head, then great: be the gobby cսnt. Until then, get your head down, play well and score some goals. He was poor today. Second to everything.