Preston 0 Sunderland 3: Highlights as Cats reach Championship play-offs after Millwall lose on dramatic day
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Sunderland beat Preston 3-0 at Deepdale to secure their place in the Championship play-offs.
After a goalless first half, Amad put the visitors ahead with an excellent strike into the top corner.
Substitute Alex Pritchard then added a second before Jack Clarke completed the scoring with a low effort.
After Millwall failed to beat Blackburn, Sunderland moved into the top six and will now face Luton in the play-offs.
Here’s how the game played out:
RECAP: Preston 0 Sunderland 3 (Amad, 54) (Pritchard, 61) (Clarke, 65)
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, Gooch (Anderson, 66), Hume, O’Nien, Cirkin (Pritchard, 45), Neil, Ekwah, Roberts, Amad (Ba, 87), Clarke, Gelhardt (Michut, 72)
- Subs: Bass, Anderson, Michut, Ba, Pritchard, Lihadji, Taylor
- Preston XI: Woodman, Storey, Lindsay, Kamara, Potts, McCann, Ledson, Fernandez, Parrott (Onomah, 56), Delap (Woodburn, 70), Cannon
- Subs: Cornell, Bauer, Slater, Leigh, Woodburn, Onomah, Mawene
72’ Michut on for Sunderland
Third change for Sunderland as Michut comes on for Gelhardt.
It’s now a case of looking elsewhere.
Blackburn are still level with Millwall, while Coventry are drawing with Middlesbrough.
77’ Sunderland done their job
The rain is coming down hard at Deepdale and the sting has gone out of the game.
It looks like Sunderland have done their job.
It’s just a case of seeing what happens elsewhere.
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