Sunderland declined for their third defeat in a row at WBA thanks to a Romelu Lukaku brace. Some tips about what we made of it. It was a bullish and upbeat Martin O'Neill that safc.com trapped with after the game. I thought we needs to have got something from the game; we made a lot of chances. We conceded an objective from a penalty and the 2nd [goal] was bizarre. We did not have a whole lot of luck in and round the penalty area ourselves and we should have taken more from what Stephane Sessegnon made. He obtained an excellent target himself. Stephane was outstanding today; top-quality in the second half. I thought we should have had a penalty kick just before half time, however it was not provided. For the 2nd target Titus [Bramble] must have seen the ball out instead of enjoying it blindly back to the goalkeeper - the player have been hit by the clearance and it is in the back of the net. That was obviously a significant problem at that level of the game, but we got in engrossed and still had enough chances to obtain an equaliser, which I think we'd have earned, unquestionably. We'd a few good chances at the end. It's really disappointing. We came here confidently following the Arsenal game fourteen days before. We should have capitalised on the probabilities we created. It was not probably the most inspiring performance but I will see some justification for O'Neill's remarks. WBA truly had the better of available play, but Sunderland struck the post, had a very strong punishment claim turned away, and missed a couple of large chances towards the finish. We probably should have taken anything from the game, on the total amount of chances. We do this characteristic every week and we very rarely even mention the ref, let alone complain about him, but this week it is difficult never to mention him. I have absolutely no problem if he really wants to regard the ball striking Gardner's turn in the box a penalty kick. Fair enough. The handball principle is uncertain to say the least. Nevertheless the truth remains that IF that was considered a, then Adam Johnson's near-identical penalty state prior to half time must be as well. Personally, I think that he was more likely to provide the WBA one due to seeing them set the ball in the seconds after he ended play to award them a free of charge end. He was aevening issues up.' It's pretty much the only real reason I will fathom. I thought a bit sorry for Titus Bramble in a feeling. I undoubtedly wouldn't wish to experience Romelu Lukaku on that type of form and you'd need to doff your cap and say that the Belgian Behemoth positively bossed it. It was probably fitting that the moment he broke and talented Lukaku the next purpose turned out to be the critical moment of the game because in many ways that battle was the one. I did perhaps not feel sufficient concern for Bramble to wash it underneath the rug and move ahead without comment, though. At the end of the day, he was not overwhelmed for ability, actually overpowered, or just outclassed. He only lost his awareness and did something silly. That last phrase sums up his whole career and demonstrates the key reason why he can not be relied upon and must form no the main club's future beyond come july 1st. It is hard to get too much from one sport together, however the early symptoms look promising enough. The way they combined for Fletcher's shot that bounced off the post was probably pretty close to how Martin O'Neill envisages the partnership operating, with Graham occupying defenders allowing Fletcher to obtain additional time and space facing the target. Continue, who knows what will happen. The device may change next week again and a brand new dynamic being discussed here. I'll perhaps not mind that - so long as they continue steadily to start activities together. Some of the most vehement criticisms from Saturday from fans was reserved for the vast players, especially Adam Johnson who failed to actually get into the overall game. I think a few of it is reasonable enough. We do require more from Johnson. Having said that, if the flanks are to be used precisely they have to certainly be a relationship between wingers and complete backs, and the latter just don't do enough to simply help. I enjoy Colback and Gardner aren't natural complete backs and they are doing their utmost for the group, but such a big difference would be away made such by a simple thing as getting themselves around the outside on the overlap of their wingers just running a man. Neither are great players and both are probably focused on an inability to get straight back if the play break up. If you wish to start to see the difference that full backs will make though you just have to go through the difference in Sessegnon's game against Arsenal when he was switched to the left with Danny Rose behind him. So we can criticize the wingers all we need, but the fact remains that before whole straight back positions are addressed, we won't see the most readily useful of these irrespective of who they are.
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