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We were not great but did enough, 3 points and a clean sheet, Sakho back on target! I don't think there was any chance Sunderland were going to be rolled over like last week v Villa (in fact by all accounts Villa were not great v Swansea today) I think with respect to both sides it was more fear of losing that made the match pretty dire to watch and Defoe pulled our defence all ways. Collins showed a lot of courage and made some timely interventions. Lee Mason I felt gave a lot of 50/50 decisions The Black Cats way and in my opinion we should have had one penalty (possibly two) but refs don't seem to give us many breaks at all do they? But the big thing is it is a much needed morale booster especially with the current crop of injuries. We certainly missed Valencia today who I feel would have stretched Sunderlands defence.
But a win is a win and as I put earlier a clean sheet as well. Now 9th in the table with 42pts and 17 clear of 3rd bottom I am certainly a lot happier today than I have been for a few weekends now but at the start of the season if you had offered 9th after 30 games, 42 points yep damn right I'd have taken it. IMO we can only get better!
