Jobe Bellingham's stunning goal helped Sunderland go top of the Championship table as they beat Derby County 2-0, capitalising on West Brom's slip-up against Middlesbrough. (More Sports News)
Bellingham got off the꧟ mark for 2024-25 with a crashing finish from 25 yards out to put Sunderland ahead shor❀tly before half-time at the Stadium of Light.
Wilson Isidor then tapped ൲home following great work from Romaine Mundle after the break as the Black Cats earned their sixth win fr✨om eight league games this term.
While Derby – who missed several chances to get ba🎀ck into the game – sit 13th on nine points, Regis Le Bris' side overtook West Brom to go top of the table on 18.
The Baggies relinquished their position due to a🍨 1-0 home defeat against Middlesbrough, with Hayden Hackney netting the only goal after 7🏅3 minutes.
No away team had 🦩scored at the Hawthorns in almost six months, but Hackney found the bottom corner with a sweeping finish after taking in Riley McGree's pass for the winner.
Carlos Corberan's men slippe🌞d two places to third, with Burnley also overtaking them by beating Wayne Rooney's Plymouth Argyle 1-0 at Turf Moor.
T♏he Clarets needed a 26th-minute Josh Brownhill penalty, awarded for Darko Gyabi's foul on Josh Cullen, to get over the line despite Plymouth not attempting a single shot on target.
Fellow high-flyers Blackburn Rovers, meanwhile, suffered 🐓their first defeat of the campaign at Coventry City, who recorded a deeply impressive 3-0 win at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
Jake Bidwell, Haji Wright and Brandon Thomas-Asante were on target for last season's FA Cup semi-finalists, who climbed 🦹to 16th in the🌄 table. Blackburn sit fifth.
Leeds United💧 are level with Blackburn, but have a superior goal 🅠difference and sit fourth, after fighting back to draw 1-1 at Norwich City.
Josh Sargent's early penalty gave Norwich the lead over their former boss Daniel Farke, but Largie 🅺Ramazani's goal on the hour earned Leeds a point amid aꦗ better second-half display.