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*~*~* Burnley v Sunderland match thread *~*~*

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We look dodgy at full back. Neither Hume or Cirkin been convincing. Which is rare for them

Think they had a really poor opening 10. Props to them for recovering from that. They caught us cold with them diags early doors and Anthony in particular looked like he was gonna have Cirkin on toast. After the first 2 though I feel like Cirkin has grown into the game.
 
Decent game of football. We started slow and they were right at us the first 10. Started to get into it a bit more but they always look like they’ve got that little bit more threat when they break on us. Hume and Cirkin not exactly having terrible games but both have got away with being caught too far up or beaten by their man too easily a couple of times. Need to tighten up. Jobe movement on the ball is class but he always had 2 or 3 men on him. Dan Neil having to do a lot of covering. Onien too. Le Fee wasted out wide I think.
 
I expect us to improve massively. We've never really got going at all yet.
We have a tendency to defend by playing head tennis and we end up giving the ball right back to them, they have a tendency to get absolutely rattled by our press when they try and play it out from the back and they give it back to us. It's been a game of the ball mainly being played in one half for periods of time and then switches to the other end of the pitch for a while. If we can keep the ball under control when they break and we defend, we will have control of the game.
 
Did well after the slow start, at some point in the second half take Rigg off and bring Mayenda on and let Enzo play in the middle as you can see he has something about him. Burnley are a good side but if we play to our strengths 2nd half we could win this. Be happy with a point at worse.
 
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