Football: Sunderland lead Championship after 2-1 win

Monday, April 9, 2007

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*Match Stats*
Attendance	25766
Goalscorers for Southampton FC	Saganowski (67')
Goalscorers for Sunderland FC	Edwards (77'), Leadbitter (87')
Bookings (Southampton FC)	None
Bookings (Sunderland FC)	Yorke (Yellow (1))

Sunderland is the new leader of the Coca Cola Championship after a 2-1 victory over Southampton on Monday night. Roy Keane's side has been storming up the table in past weeks, having not lost since the sixth of January, a total of sixteen games. Both teams are in the hunt for promotion, with Sunderland likely to qualify automatically. Southampton on the other hand has a chance to qualify for the Premiership through the playoffs. Leon Best and Marek Saganowski were started as strikers for Southampton, while Sunderland started David Connolly and Stephen Elliott up front.

The first half was played out evenly, with Sunderland getting the better of the chances as David Connolly struck the post. Southampton started the scoring in the second half when Marek Saganowski poked home a cut back cross by Danny Guthrie. Carlos Edwards tied up the match for Sunderland ten minutes later from a high quality strike. The Trinidad international gathered the ball on the right, cut to his left, and unleashed a cannon into the top corner past keeper Bartosz Bialkowski. As the game neared its end, Sunderland scored the winner through substitute Grant Leadbitter, as his equally powerful shot was beyond Bialkowski, giving the Black Cats the three points.

With third place Birmingham City loosing in Barnsley and second place Derby County tying Coventry, first place in the league is left for the Black Cats with only five games remaining in the season. The loss leaves Southampton out of the playoff picture for the time being, but they are only one point back of sixth place Preston North End.

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W-D-L	GD	Pts
1	Wolves	46	27-9-10	28	90
2	Birmingham	46	23-14-9	17	83
3	Sheffield Utd	46	22-14-10	25	80
4	Reading	46	21-14-11	32	77
5	Burnley	46	21-13-12	12	76
6	Preston	46	21-11-14	12	74
7	Cardiff City	46	19-17-10	12	74
8	Swansea City	46	16-20-10	13	68
9	Ipswich Town	46	17-15-14	9	66
10	Bristol City	46	15-16-15	0	61

Full Football League Table

Last updated: May 22, 2010 4:30pm UTC

Sources

"Southampton 1 - 2 Sunderland" — SkySports, April 9, 2007
Alex Dunn. "Championship Round Up" — SkySports, April 9, 2007

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