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Could end up sulking himself into being sidelined and dropped altogether. Does he not want to be in the squad for the final?

I get he wants to play every game. But he hasn't shown enough to warrant automatic selection. Subs were spot on by Puel today. Didn't badge Jrod as an ego but he does seem to be handling it the wrong way.

To be honest. We haven't needed him today. No need to bring him on just because.

Long has never been prolific. But as a supporting striker I think he'd play well with Gabbiadini.

On a hat-trick now. Just 1 more and he's over half way to Austins total in 2 games

What a turn and goal. Poor defending but what a neat finish! 2-0!

We started badly but fought back into it a bit. Got a goal. Going to need a few more I think. No way Long or JRod would have scored that goal ..

GOAL GABI!

Getting a bit more into it now.

To be fair that's the first time he's seen the ball.

Just look off the pace. No-one tracking their runs. Always falls to their guy when it's a loose ball. We need to start tracking them...

On the back foot. Making Sunderland look like a good team.

Much rather have Warburton. At least he has some track record of success.

Naturally when we sell VVD in the summer they will say Caceres was his replacement like they did with Austin and Pelle

Of course. But that's a big IF

He seems worth a gamble. But if nowhere near match fit - won't help much at first and then VVD will be back?

He is a sharp finisher. Finds space in tight defences. There is large gaps in ours. Doesn't bode well for the match.

South Coast air is different

Would be a gamble but can anyone seriously see this happening if he turned down Milan? Surely off to China.

Sunderland is now a relegation 6 pointer. Been a while since we had one of those. Lose and we will do well to come back from it.

Under investment. Instead of pushing on with decent signings we've sold and sold. Before the season began we looked a bit light considering we had Europe. Now we can barely piece together a defence.

I just don't know how we failed to get any CB in to replace Fonte.. But even before we lost Van Dijk we were playing awful football. Possibly a new man can inject some belief. But who?

The worry here is we've lost so many games against the "weaker" teams already. We need shock results against Spurs etc to stay up..

Indeed. Even when we had a good defence we looked dire. This defence problem is a new one.

What was he doing shooting there? What a waste from Cedric.