How Can Sunderland Respond Against Wolves This Weekend?
After Friday night’s stuffing by Forest, what do the Lads need to do — or perhaps hear — in order to bounce back?
Sunderland's Noah Sadiki (left) speaks to manager Regis Le Bris with a possible injury to the wrist during the Premier League match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland. Picture date: Friday April 24, 2026. (Photo by Richard Sellers/PA Images via Getty Images) | PA Images via Getty Images Anth Gair says… Of all the birthday presents I asked for last Friday, a battering wasn’t on the list.
We always do this — enjoy nice things written being about us, hand the ball back and ask the pundits to think again. My advice is dead simple: “Get off the beach and back on the pitch. ” People pay their hard-earned every week to follow this lot up and down the country, and what they got at the Stadium of Light on Friday was almost insulting.
Habib Diarra needs to find whatever it was that made us splurge £30 million-plus on him before kick off. Omar Alderete needs to not pass to the opposition repeatedly, and Robin Roefs needs to remember the standards he’s set himself. We need to stop aimlessly passing backwards and expecting everything from the defenders.
Earn it back. Wolves might be already down but after the pummelling on Friday, no one in red and white should be daft enough to call anything a ‘banker’. Forest were in trouble when they walked out of the Stadium of Light with a gift-wrapped five goals.
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