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Originally Posted by right-track
I'll let you in on a secret.
The teams that pick up points against United are the ones that try and take the game to us.
City didn't take 6 points of us last season for playing 10 men behind the ball for 90 minutes and it's no surprise they got nothing for attempting it last week.
A 10 man defence against United is suicide.
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Im not arguing that that is generally the case and of course no one wants to see their team line up 4-5-1 and put 9 or 10 behind the ball for 90 minutes but my point is that i think you will find a lot of Sunderland fans who were happy with that yesterday.
Last week we were appaling, we looked half decent going forward at times but put in possibly the worst defensive performance of any club so far this season. Chimbonda and Bardsley did next to no defending and often found themselves 10 yards behind play when Bolton brought the ball forward leaving us with 2 at the back and when one of those 2 puts in a performance like Danny Collins did THAT is suicide. We paid for it too, if Bolton can put 4 past us then United should be able to put 5 or 6 past us if not more if we dont tighten up.
I think that based on our form as of late and the fact we have a manager 3 days into his job that lining up so defensively, holding a line, digging our heels in and playing for a point at Old Trafford and a clean sheet which we really need was arguably the way to go. Don't get me wrong, there was only one team that was ever going to come away with 3 points yesterday and United did just that so there can be no arguments really but i thought we defended well, Fulop had a great game in goal and really I struggle to think of a clear one on one chance on goal that United had.
City played for those 6 points and their aim is european football at the least, ours is staying up.