'Title charge is on' - Sunderland fans react to 'unreal' 3-0 win over Burton Albion
The Black Cats built on last weekend’s comprehensive victory over Doncaster Rovers with another assured display this afternoon.
Grant Leadbitter opened the scoring early on with a strike from distance before Lyndon Gooch doubled the lead with an eye-catching effort of his own.
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Hide AdAlbion were reduced to 10 men shortly after the interval when Josh Earl saw red for a second bookable offence, and Lee Johnson's side hammered home their numerical advantage when Charlie Wyke notched his 18th league goal of the season after latching on to a through ball from substitute Jordan Jones.
We’ve gathered some of the best tweets from supporters on Twitter below:
@EthanSmith1717 tweeted: “What a game this was”.
@LauraMaggiore10 tweeted: “Unreal! Bring on Tuesday night”
@SAFCLJ tweeted: “GET IN. Title charge?”
@JaiOliver5 tweeted: “Title charge is on boys”
@aimeegordon_x tweeted: “A good comfortable win. Normally in a game like this we’d be saying typical Sunderland but it was nice to see the lads put a decent shift in! Luke O’Nien is just mint, proper love him”.
@John67684101 tweeted: “Well done guys… seemed a very different Sunderland today. Confident, in control, great belief, and we only seemed in third gear. Continuation of the push for promotion?”
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Hide Ad@Safcjonny tweeted: “What a great week. Beat Doncaster 4-1. Into the Papa John’s final. Takeover done. Won today”
@D_M__98 tweeted: “Quality performance”
@rhystdd tweeted: “Can’t wait for those Champions League nights”