28 Dec 2025 16:51:32
Absolute team performance personified, so Farke - in proud after that display
Even Baracus gets spesh mention today after that shift
Some. of that 2nd half today was best I have seen us play in years, and don't even get me going on that incredible goal
So proud after that.
28 Dec 2025 17:32:19
Bob on there Christophe! And flashes of Zico from Baracus! ??.
28 Dec 2025 17:49:22
A chest bursting performance Chris, that was everything why we are so proud and invested in our club, simply awesome! That was Leeds personified, can't praise enough, wow.
28 Dec 2025 17:59:50
I agree to a certain degree Chris but it’s still only one point.
We should have mullered a depleted Sunderland team today and gone 9 points clear of the drop zone. They looked very very average at best but they had a number of starters missing including Ballard who has been excellent this season.
Anyway it’s another point to continue our fine run of form but still can’t stop thinking it’s two points dropped.
28 Dec 2025 18:36:57
Cork it was the manner of our performance, we continually looked to be offensive, and regardless of the Afcon situ - they still had a depth to their squad, a depth we don't
But that's a separate conversation as you know ?
We quelled a very partisan crowd and made them cack themselves.
28 Dec 2025 18:51:11
They maybe looked average, but could have been 3 up at half time.
Fortunately they weren't and Leeds bossed the 2nd half.
28 Dec 2025 19:27:38
Corey, that's not true.
They have lost a lot of players to AFCON but my work colleague goes to all Sunderland games and they're still near full first team squad availability.
Are you going to judge Liverpool result based on no Salah and the Salford lot missing their players.
Credit where credits due. Our lads bloodied the noses of a team who have been incredible at home this year and have a home crowd, second only to us.
Today was a great performance and a great result and a unbelievable great team goal.
The team, DCL, BA and DF can sleep very well tonight, knowing that they did an incredible job and did us fans immensely proud.
29 Dec 2025 01:03:44
The only puzzle is how Brobbey avoided a card for his GBH assault on Joe Rodon. To me it was a stonewall yellow even bordering on a straight red.
29 Dec 2025 09:37:42
True JR, thought the ref had a bad game and mainly his decisions against us. Also agree with Yaboah in that Sunderland were not so weakened by their Afcon players and it’s true they could’ve been two or three nil up at half time.
I’d say if they missed any player yesterday, it was probably their influential CB Dan Ballard who was out injured.
This was an impressive performance by us and my feeling is that we were very unfortunate not to win that game.
It did look to me that they deliberately targeted Rodon and Brobbey’s challenge should have met a card by the ref.
I just hope Rodon isn’t out for long, although we coped well without him in the second half, we do need him back asap.
29 Dec 2025 10:49:14
Sunderland had nine players out yesterday including four who started against Newcastle a couple of weeks back. Reinildo, Balllard and Sadiki massive loses for them yesterday.
Don’t understand how they were not weakened as a couple of you lads have said?
It was a great time to play Sunderland but unfortunately we couldn’t capitalise despite a strong performance.
29 Dec 2025 23:42:49
I think their next home game against Man City you will have your answer Cork as to whether they are really weakened by their recent player loses.
30 Dec 2025 08:37:28
Like you say Opti, for every one of their missing players, they have an equally capable replacement. We do not. They're in a very fortunate position of unexpectedly getting promoted, being financially flush and more able to spend, and this could ironically give them the longevity in the PL that the rest of us are striving for, while there is an expectation of success.