Alex Neil insists Sunderland deserve to advance to the play-off final - but warns there is still one more hurdle to clear. The Black Cats scored a stoppage-time goal to draw 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough, which secured a 2-1 aggregate win in the semi-final.
And they will now take on Wycombe Wanderers at Wembley a week on Saturday, with a place in the Championship at stake. "I thought it was no more than we deserved," Neil said of the draw in South Yorkshire.
"We switched off once in the game and we got punished for it, other than that we defended extremely well but we didn't set out to be defensive - if you look at our starting line-up, we were trying to be aggressive. Across the piece, I thought we were the better team and I didn't think we deserved to be trailing [on the night].