7 CORLUKA: couple of dodgy moments early on but settled well into rhythm
7 DUNNE: when he starts well the captain often continues in the same vein and did here
7 RICHARDS: took a could of nasty blows to either end of his anatomy and off at break
7 BALL: continues to show improved form and was neat, tidy and accomplished
7 IRELAND: survived the axe when Petrov went lame and did himself proud again
7 JOHNSON: looked much more influential when he managed to get forward. Made goal
8 KOMPANY: another impressive effort and he doesn’t seem to have a weakness
8 HAMANN: never does anything extravagant but it always has a positive purpose
9 WRIGHT-PHILLIPS: superb. Never stopped running, tackling, smiling and scoring!
7 JO: much better. A threat in air but miscued his one real chance to score.
SUBSTITUTES
Ben Haim (for Richards 46) – intelligent and sturdy defending 7
Fernandes (for Johnson 80) – plenty of energy 6
Elano (for SWP 84) – too late to mark
UNUSED: Schmeichel, Garrido, Sturridge and Evans
BATTLE OF THE BOSSES: Hughes decision to play a five-man midfield including Hamann was a masterstroke and Keane had no answers to the fluidity of City’s line-up
REFEREE: Chris Foy (Merseyside) seemed to lose control at various times but nothing that changed course of game - 5
ATTENDANCE: 39,622
SUNDERLAND: Gordon, Bardsley, Nosworthy, Malbranque, Cisse (Stokes 61), Richardson, Diouf (Healy 61), Collins, Leadbitter (Murphy 61), Reid, Chimbonda. Not used: Miller, Ward, Yorke, and Higginbotham. Tweet
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Hart = 9
Corluka = 10
Richards = 8
Dunne = 9
Ball = 9
Ireland = 8
Johnson = 8
SWP = 11
Hamann = 9
Kompany = 9
Jo = 8
TBH = 8
Gelson = 8
Elano = 8
Seen comments from some people at game and they reckon Charlie was definitely waving goodbye to City supporters at the end.
OB1 -
I dont believe that - he's staying or at least I hope so..
Ratings for SWP was wrong -
It should have been 10!
**** C I T Y ****
Nothing like a bit ofover emphasis is there Neill? That said it seems that once the deadlock was broken we really turned it on in the second half. Was frustrated by the lack of any tv or even radio coverage so I'm itching to see the highlights.
shaun i love ya welcome home m8 your simply the best better than all the rest tna turner 1970 shaun your god jesus the universe the air that i breath we worship you thanx mark hughes fror bringing my son back home
i have three sons i love them dearley but the prodigal son i really love you thanx for coming back home
Blueboy,
Apparently he made a point of going over and giving his crowd to a fan too. Hughes apparently just saying wait and see about moves tomorrow.
I watched it on the internet, and second half we dominated the game so much it was unbelievable! Great perfomance. Hughes got the tactics spot on and his decision to leave Elano on the bench was genious... he'd have probably got killed! It was a fiesty game to say the least.
My last comment should have said give his shirt to a fan. Doh!
can someone please tell me how they managed to watch it on the internet i couldnt find it anywhere!!
Really impressed with Jo today. Thought it would take some months to settle in, but he was superb.
SWP - what can you say !
"Shauny Wright Superstar/
Out On The Wing He's The Best By Far/
He Left The Club At 23/
Now He's Back Home At The Man City..."
the game was live on digitalb(as most of citys games are)
neil hi m8 glad god is back at last we both can be positive at last
Great result, well done lads.
Today every one was an hero and SWP was king for a day.
Jo showed us all what he is capable of and what we can now look forward to
Kompany is proving to be a snip at the price and it looks like Mark Hughes as unearthed another pearl.
Dunne was awful today.
i watched highlights only, so granted he might have done a bit better in the full 90 mins, but it seemed that every time he was under the slightest pressure he bottled it and was at best bad.
he should've gone for at least 2 bad tackles.
Johnson Ireland and Ball deserve more than a 7. I think young Stevie has gotten his appetite for the game back. And what can I say about SWP!! CTID!