Tag: Sunderland v Fulham

For our first away trip of the season we travel to the Stadium of Light to take on Sunderland

The Chelsea game didn’t turn out as we hoped, they very rarely do, but we showed some encouraging signs and, if poor old Antonee could shoot, we’re unlucky to not get a third goal, if we had they’d probably scored again?
Josh King was electric, for me the best player on the pitch, and deservedly scored his first Premier League goal, and let’s not forget, last season’s goal should never have been disallowed!
Gonzalo Garcia looks to be the “Real” deal, scoring on his Premier League debut he joins a select group including, Saha, Boa Morte, Brian McBride, David Healy, Mladen Petric, Daren Bent and Chris David. If he turns out to be anywhere near to Saha, Boa or McBride we’ve made the signing of the season.

Last season we did “the double” over Sunderland, in the 22 Premier League games we’ve won 10, drawn 7, and lost 5, we’ve won 4 times at the Stadium of Light, for some reason I thought we’d hardly ever won there, probably true when we were in the lower divisions?

My team would be…

COYW’s

Games of Interest

Friday 28/08
Palace v Man City

Saturday 29/08
Liverpool v Forest
Coventry v Hull

Sunday 30/08
Leeds v Brentford
Sunderland v Fulham

Monday 31/08
Villa v Arsenal

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We get to travel to Sunderland’s Stadium of Light for the fourth round replay

So after the “proper” FA Cup game at the Cottage ended in a draw we get a Wednesday evening 17:45 kick off to see who will face Leeds in the next round.
Sunderland really gave it go and will be full of confidence that they can get a result at their place?
It was an uncharacteristic mistake by Issa Diop that allowed Sunderland to take a sixth minute lead, however Tom Cairney came to the rescue with a wonderful bit of skill weaving his way past a couple of defenders before scoring past the very impressive Patterson who had an outstanding game.
15 year old Christopher Rigg thought, as did the travelling Sunderland fans, that he had scored the winner, and made FA Cup history, I think he would have been the youngest ever FA Cup scorer?, but unfortunately for the lad and Sunderland the goal was ruled out as he was offside.
More bad luck for Sunderland, Ross Stewart was carried off with an ankle problem, his 10 goals in 13 games will be missed?

Assuming the our two new players can’t feature as they weren’t available for the first game and as Marco Silva has said that he wants to take the FA Cup seriously my team would be…

COYW’s

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