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Burnley moved to the top of the Championship after Jaidon Anthony’s brace 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 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 referee James Bell following 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 West Brom goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith gifted Sunderland a 1-0 win at The Hawthorns to strengthen their Sky Bet Championship play-off 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 former Black Cats head coach Tony Mowbray – seventh before the later afternoon kick-offs.
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The hosts created chances galore but could not convert them, while Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson denied Kyle Bartley.
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