14/03/15 SUN vs AVL

Finally, got the chance to witness the 2nd football match in my life. Sunderland AFC vs Aston Villa FC. Doesn't sound very impressive. Oh well, for crazy football fans like me, any BPL match is nice to watch.

1st time to Stadium of Light, Sunderland

Villa's keepers Guzan & Given doing light training

While waiting for the match to start, might as well

The Black Cat

Wooh! Finally starting 

Sunderland fans so onz

Kick-off 

Ok back to narrative session. After waiting in the cold for about 45 minutes, the match started. Before that, browsing Sunderland AFC's Twitter, manager Poyet said in the press conference that the team will perform their best for the home fans. Sounds steady.

The first 10 minutes, Sunderland players all very onz, kept attacking although never score, but was great effort. Suddenly, at the 16th minute, a simple pass into the box not intercepted, Benteke applied a cool finish. 1-0 Aston Villa. Pantilimon stood there watching the ball went into the back of the net.

2 minutes later, Agbonlahor dashed past every Sunderland players from the side, plus O'Shea's miss header, dashed into the penalty box, simple finish. 2-0. Sunderland players stunned.

Around 37th minute, Agbonlahor again, solo mid. Dribbled past everyone, & shot. Walao no eyes see already. 3-0 down. The crowd were so unhappy & hooting. To be very honest, did not think that they could make a comeback. 

Before half-time, Benteke scored again. An outstanding header. Sunderland 0-4 down. At home. At this moment, comeback was definitely impossible. Even worse, half of the fans left. Such a disappointing performance from the home team. I totally have no idea why they are not closing down the opponents, at least put in some effort instead of playing in a lacklustre way.

2nd half, after kick-off. Eh? Why Sunderland only got 10 players on the field?? I was very sure nobody was sent off. Weird. Then 3 minutes later, Larsson appear at the sidelines. Wtf. Lose already then play with 10 men also ok la? @@ Is this a joke??

Nothing special in the 2nd half. Defoe nearly scored 1, great chance, hit the post. Alamak! Really poor effort from Sunderland. Speechless after the match. It is great that I was able to witness 4 goals, but this match is totally not competitive due to the terrible performance from one team.

This marked the end of my 2nd live football match. Few days later, Poyet was sacked. Hopefully Sunderland AFC will improve sometime soon.