15 points. anything less is failure. i dont want to hear any talk about how "sunderland are a tough team" or "every game in the league is a hard game" thats bollocks and loser talk. the same people saying that are the mugs that were saying "ehgghehh Guardiola cant do it at Stoke" and then they went and smashed them. We have played 2 high pressing teams who could expose us. But in talent and in play style we're better than every one of those 5 teams. If we bottle any of these games you can say goodbye to the league because we wont fluke our matches against the hard teams a second time around. we have to be flat track bullies to have the best chance of winning the league.

We are favourites for all 5 games and we should play the most attacking teams possible to counter the bus parking teams. Dont let it go on as some kind of high end tactical battle when the best way to beat park the bus teams is to keep them there not show them respect and let them grow into the game (what we managed to do v every shit team last year). We literally got outplayed by West Brom at home last year because we werent pressing them, were barely attacking or moving forward and let them have too much of the ball.