{"id":668476,"date":"2026-01-02T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668476\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:21:12","slug":"sunderland-0-0-man-city-we-are-not-happy-says-bernardo-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668476\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland 0-0 Man City: ‘We are not happy’, says Bernardo Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola questioned whether it was only a two-horse Premier League title race, but his <\/b>Manchester City<\/b><\/a> side can ill-afford many slip-ups in their quest to hunt down leaders <\/b>Arsenal<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta’s Gunners have struck the latest blow in this cat and mouse chase, four points clear at the summit following City’s frustrating goalless draw at Sunderland<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

City dropped points as the temperature at the Stadium of Light almost hit freezing on the first day of 2026.<\/p>\n

And Arsenal<\/a> will need to maintain their cool if they are to claim their first top-flight crown in over two decades.<\/p>\n

City had 67% possession and 14 shots in the North East, but were unable to break down a stubborn Sunderland<\/a> defence who claimed a well-earned point.<\/p>\n

“Two different halves,” said City captain Bernardo Silva after the game. “In the first half we didn’t play that well. We didn’t control the counter as well as we should.<\/p>\n

“We attacked a bit too quick – we didn’t move them to find spaces. Second half we had a lot more chances and today was one of those days we couldn’t finish them. <\/p>\n

“We are not happy because we wanted better than this.”<\/p>\n

As goalless draws go, this was an thoroughly entertaining one with both teams having chances to claim all three points.<\/p>\n

The home fans grew in confidence as the match wore on but City could not find the key to unlock the defence as Sunderland<\/a> maintained their impressive unbeaten record at home this season.<\/p>\n

“If you look at Sunderland<\/a>‘s home record I think it’s a point well-earned,” former Manchester City<\/a> defender Steph Houghton said on BBC Match of the Day.<\/p>\n

“They [City] will overall be disappointed because of the chances they created but if you look at the likes of Arsenal<\/a> and Aston Villa<\/a>, to go there and get a point, we are half way through the season, there is a long, long way to go.”<\/p>\n

Just like Arsenal in November,<\/a> City could not beat the Black Cats.<\/p>\n

And Sunderland<\/a> boss Regis le Bris was understandably delighted by the result, saying: “I’m enjoying [it]. I think we showed strong character against probably one of the best teams in Europe at the minute.<\/p>\n

“It was important to defend well. I think we were bold because we tried to be aggressive and high up the pitch. I think we disturbed their routine, maybe their flow and it was really important.<\/p>\n

“We created a few chances as well, so it was a good game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola questioned whether it was only a two-horse Premier League title race, but his Manchester City side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-668476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115824301826443407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}