Published September 22, 2015 ” Sunderland host Manchester City in round three of the Capital One Cup tonight at 20:45 GMT”.
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City were given a reality check as their impressive, 100 per cent start to the season came to an abrupt halt with defeats to Juventus and West Ham in the space of five days last week. West Ham became the first team to score a league goal versus City this term when Victor Moses struck after six minutes and they doubled their lead through Diafra Sakho before £55 million ($85.44 million) man Kevin de Bruyne pulled a goal back.
West Ham now has joined select company by beating Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City on the road in the same season.
The League Cup football game heads to the Stadium of Light today 9/22/15 within minutes. “Maybe we didn’t deserve to lose the two games that we lost, but we did, so it was important not to continue in that sense”.
And it was the Premier League side who held their nerve from the spot, with Johnson failing to emulate his extra-time effort as he missed the crucial spotkick to see the visitors run out 3-2 winners.
The midfielder, who scored City’s goal in the 2-1 weekend loss, said: “We just have to play like we did in the second half”.
“And last season, after the team had been hammered on the Saturday, a friend sent me a picture of half a dozen Sunderland first team players all holding up cigarettes and pints of beer in a pub during an all-day session on the Sunday”.
The Teessider has been on the bench for Sunderland’s last two Premier League games after an error-strewn start to the season, yet his performance did not go unnoticed by Advocaat, despite the scoreline.
“We had some good opportunities in the game and I thought we played very positively”. When they’re firing on all cylinders, the Black Cats have proven they’re good enough to at least compete in the top flight.
Gestede powered home a header from Jordan Amavi’s cross just after half time on a nervy night for the Villans, and they survived despite Jacques Maghoma wasting a gilt-edged opening late on by firing straight at Brad Guzan. “We didn’t win and I don’t think one player could change history”. This is the first really big club I’ve played for and I have a fantastic goalkeeper in front of me in Joe Hart.
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As for Sunderland, Wes Brown could make a return to the club’s starting XI after some indifferent showings under Advocaat, as John O’Shea finds himself fighting against the clock to fully recover from an illness.
