This season, Sunderland love a late objective and Brian Brobbey’s 94th-minute end on Saturday was simply the most recent in a list relationship again to the playoffs in Might. This one was particular as a result of it helped us come from behind in opposition to top-of-the-line groups within the nation to get a degree that we by no means stopped battling for.
The two-2 draw with Arsenal got here two weeks after our last-gasp win at Chelsea, that means we’ve taken 4 factors from video games in opposition to the standard high six groups.
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Burnley misplaced 0-2 at residence to Arsenal and Leeds acquired battered 5-0 on the Emirates, however we had one of the best defensive facet within the league with 9 males behind the ball in harm time — and so they nonetheless couldn’t maintain us out.
Arsenal had conceded three objectives in ten video games earlier than coming to the Stadium of Mild, and we put two previous them. Different groups, after going 2-1 down with fifteen minutes to go, would most likely hunker down and keep away from conceding any extra, but at 1-1, we introduced on three forwards earlier than including a second striker late on, in Eliezer Mayenda.
On the finish of the day, Arsenal have been individually higher than us.
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That’s a given, however there’s no denying that we battled tougher as a unit than the league leaders at instances. This Sunderland group simply doesn’t surrender, and the previous expression of ‘Til The Finish continues to be excess of a advertising and marketing slogan — it’s a mantra that everybody related with Sunderland can get behind.
We head into the most recent worldwide break in a Champions League place, with nineteen factors from a attainable thirty three. We’ve additionally acquired the second-best residence document within the Premier League, and even our away type is probably higher than we may’ve anticipated.
Issues are sensible at Sunderland in the mean time.
We’ve saved our good begin going till no less than mid-November and after each of our defeats, we received our subsequent recreation. You possibly can wax lyrical about Sunderland for hours, and many people can be checking the Premier League desk over the following two weeks to make it possible for what we’re experiencing isn’t a dream.
Sunderland are flying within the Premier League and it isn’t a fluke.
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We’ve had some luck, however which soccer membership goes via a season with out that? We’re within the high 4 as a result of we’re a hardworking group and we’ve taken sufficient possibilities once they’ve come our method. Most significantly, we’ve not appeared misplaced or been fully dominated this season to this point — one thing that we maybe thought would change once we performed Chelsea and Arsenal.
Leeds and Burnley followers have talked about our “simpler begin’ and mentioned ”Wait till we play somebody first rate”.
Final weekend, Leeds misplaced to Nottingham Forest and Burnley went down 3-2 at West Ham — two groups Sunderland have already overwhelmed. Now we have tougher video games to return, however followers of these golf equipment and possibly a couple of others down there want that they had this many factors on the board, in addition to wishing they may give groups on the high of the league a tricky recreation.
All of us have to drink this second in and seize it with each palms. We don’t know the way lengthy this can go on for, so let’s simply take pleasure in it, but in addition…let’s get carried away, man!