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I'd be shocked if we change the formation. We're a goal down, need to remain calm. It's a long 90 minutes for Sunderland.

I'm going to be boring here.... I know it will feel like we need to throw everything at it from the off but I can see Lampard being very calm over this... I think he will set up the same, potentially bringing Wright centrally and EMC on left (for as long as he can remain on the pitch)...

We will win this game! I’m so sure of it. I’d imagine it’ll be the same line up too, could potentially see us working with 2 up front also. Sunderland set up and played like Plymouth did to us, men behind the ball and we struggle to break it down. I’d imagine we will be well in tune, much more...

I don’t think we need to change the team too much to be honest for the next leg, it will genuinely be a tactical decision to be more direct…create more chances, likely to see a tonne more crosses into the box from us, longer and faster paced balls. I’m feeling good about the return fixture.

Disagree, we controlled the game start to finish. Very similar performance wise to our 3-0 win last time at the CBS, we just lacked the creative aspects. We simply struggled to get passed their low block (something we have struggled with all season, Plymouth, hull etc). Sunderland had 2 chances...

Don’t forget, Derby under Lampard lost 1-0 to Leeds in the play off semi and won 4-2 at Elland Road taking them through. We’re no strangers to coming from behind, if we can pull back 3 goals against Man United within a 25 minute span then we can get a result Tuesday. An early goal would send the...

It’s easy to sit here post match and critique. There were lots of good performances on that pitch, lacking a little creative juices in the final 3rd. I genuinely think we will do the job on the away tie

Tough to watch tonight. Surprisingly I feel bright about the return leg. Gameplay Sunderland were very poor offensively (strong defensive). I felt that we were a touch slow in build up, there were a number of times BTA and Rudoni had promising runs in behind but we played safe passes. Listen...

Good to know cheers. I thought it was applied across the board for dogso… shame for the tie mine I feel Sheff Utd have been poor.

I genuinely thought the double jeopardy rule applies in this situation, no red card? Dreadful cover on defence but if I were a Bristol fan I’d be unhappy

Sakamoto is a very tricky winger, he often skips passed players by fine margins (through their legs or dinking it around them). Sometimes it won’t happen, the defender may just be able to judge it on the day and stop him playing his game. I think that’s where we will expand our squad next...

Wilson 8.5 - stepped up. First touch gave me a heart attack 😂 Massive character in the goal, not sure if it came across on screen but in person you could see him shouting and commanding the box. Some of the clearances were as impressive as the saves. MVE 8 - thought he was great. Intercepted...

Early goal would be huge with that crowd! League record attendance?

Regardless of the team, we back our lads. I'll be in block 10 cheering them on, shouting at the ref for a pen every time our player is in the opposition box and gets touched....calling for everything. We've had some poor officiating and our turn for some luck is due. We know we concede goals...

Collins will 100% start, have to accept that. We can all agree he's not at the same level as Dovin but from a team standpoint, we need to be doing better going forward. We've lost our prowess going forward over the last few games (excluding West Brom), not creating as many clear chances, not...

Do we know if there's any updates on injuries? Am I getting a bit hopeful thinking we may see Bobby and EMC?

Posted it previously but for this season, Opta stats has him at the 2nd worst for Goals Prevented at -4.1. There is only one keeper with a worser rate at -4.6.... Brad Collins.

Looking at this seasons Opta stats, Gunn has the 2nd worst ‘goals prevented’ at -4.1. There’s only one worse GK but I’ll let your imagination guess who that is… cough Brad cough Collins

I’d look at signing Ivor Pandur, has some great stats for a team down the bottom. If they go down he’d be keen to leave. Realistically Dovin will be back in training around December, then need time to get back to his best. Unfortunate but it’s nearly a season out.

As we’ve all said it’s a must win and you can sense either Millwall or Blackburn will get a result. We are all critical of our defence/GK (it’s fair after recent slip ups) but we have to do better going forward. Last 4-5 games (aside from WB maybe) we have been incredibly poor going forward with...