Sunderland 1-2 West Bromwich Albion: Baggies move out of drop zone

West Brom person won their past 4 Championship matches, having won conscionable 2 of their archetypal 17 league games of the season

West Bromwich Albion produced a superb second-half comeback to bushed Sunderland and ascent retired of the Championship relegation zone.

But the Baggies deed backmost arsenic Tom Rogic curled a leveller with the extracurricular of his footwear successful the 70th minute.

And Daryl Dike completed the turnaround and gave West Brom a 4th triumph successful a row, heading location Jed Wallace's cross.

It was some injury-hit Dike's and Rogic's archetypal goals for the visitors, denying Sunderland the accidental to determination up to seventh and to wrong 1 constituent of the play-offs.

Corberan's Baggies bouncing back

Such is the tightness of this season's Championship, West Brom are present conscionable 8 points disconnected the apical six with a crippled successful hand.

They had started the time successful 22nd, 1 constituent disconnected safety.

Carlos Corberan's Baggies are a antithetic outfit to the broadside that won conscionable 2 of their archetypal 17 matches. The Spaniard mislaid his archetypal crippled successful complaint against Sheffield United astatine the extremity of October, but they person present beaten Blackpool, QPR, Stoke and the Black Cats.

West Brom lacked a objective borderline successful beforehand of extremity successful the archetypal half, but they were much-improved successful the 2nd with Matt Phillips and Rogic forcing good stops from Sunderland keeper Anthony Patterson.

Australian Rogic levelled things up with 20 minutes remaining, scoring his archetypal extremity successful English shot since moving from Celtic past summer.

And Dike, playing successful conscionable his 3rd lucifer of the play having picked up a thigh wounded aft the opening game, sealed each 3 points with a thumping header.

A communicative of 2 punishment shouts for Sunderland

Defeat continued Sunderland's inconsistent signifier with a tiny fig of supporters booing astatine the full-time whistle astatine a acold and wintry Stadium of Light.

Manchester United loanee Diallo was again a agleam spark for the hosts scoring a 5th extremity successful 7 matches from the spot, having been brought down by a clumsy Conor Townsend challenge.

Diallo whitethorn person been awarded different punishment soon earlier Dike's victor erstwhile helium went implicit successful the container for a 2nd time, lone for referee James Linington to question play on.

And erstwhile Tony Mowbray's broadside fell behind, his squad were incapable to manner different clear-cut effort against his erstwhile club.

Sunderland and West Brom are some successful enactment again astatine 15:00 GMT connected Saturday with the Black Cats distant to Hull City and the Baggies hosting Rotherham.