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Burnley moved to the top of the Championship after Jaidon Anthony’s double secured a 2-1 victory at Coventry, while Leeds missed the chance to return to the summit after a 1-1 draw at Luton.
Haji Wright controversially opened the scoring early on for Coventry before Anthony struck either side of half-time to extend Burnley’s unbeaten league run to 27 matches. Burnley’s victory also handed Coventry back-to-back league defeats for the first time since Frank Lampard took charge of the Sky Blues in late November. The former England midfielder was also sent off after full-time for confronting the referee, James Bell, after the final whistle.
Leeds dropped out of the Championship automatic-promotion spots after they were held to a 1-1 draw by struggling Luton at Kenilworth Road. Dan James scored a stunning equaliser, cancelling out Izzy Jones’ early opener, but the visitors could not find a winner as they slipped to third in the table.
An error by the West Brom goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith gifted Sunderland a 1-0 win at the Hawthorns to strengthen their playoff bid and dent the hosts’ top-six ambitions.
Wildsmith got a hand to Trai Hume’s 36th-minute free-kick but should have prevented the left-back scoring the winner for a second successive match. Sunderland’s ninth away win of the season consolidated fourth place and kept Albion – managed by the former Black Cats head coach Tony Mowbray – seventh before the later afternoon kick-offs.
The hosts created chances galore but could not convert them, while the Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson denied Kyle Bartley.
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