Well well, that was nervy
Sunderland came to park the bus, sat with two flat 4s and wouldn't move, you could tell with Poyets team he wanted to try not to get beat first and keep it tight which they did to their credit.
The one thing I'll say though is those are the types if games we wouldn't have won in the last few years, we would have drawn 1-1 or even lost 1-0 and just ended up frustrated, but this side is different, we couldn't blow them away as they just wouldn't come out but we kept probing and playing our football.
They wanted to take all pace out of the game and stay in it, we fell for that to an extent especially after the second goal, we just played at walking pace and felt the game was won allowing Sunderland something to get hold off and then that last 15 was very nervous.
Gerrard mom for me, you see live more what he brings to that role where he is playing, dictating, talking and bollocking when needed as both Skrtel and Agger found out when O'Shea missed that header late on, his reading of the game is superb.
One other for special mention though us Coutinho, that lad is a rolls Royce of a footballer, his touch is first class, he has time when no one else around him does, his vision is superb.
Sunderland have some yard dog players though, Bardsley , who should have gone for off the ball stuff and Cattermole are just horrible shithouses.
I haven't seen the game back and not read through yet, can anyone confirm if the incidents with Coutinho and Suarez in the second half were pens?
Fans were superb before the game, Kop was a credit during
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