Coventry City 1-2 Sunderland: Championship playoff semi-final, first leg – as it happened

Eliezer Mayenda scores late on for Sunderland as they take a slender lead back to Wearside for the second leg. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty Images

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Peter Lansley was at the CBS Arena and here is his verdict:

Everything appeared in Coventry’s favour. They have been in very decent form, winning nine of their last 11 home games, while their visitors’ mediocre run stretches back well before the five successive defeats with which they ended the regulation season. Nor had Sunderland beaten Coventry in any of their 10 meetings since 2007.

With automatic promotion effectively out of their reach since not long after the fold of the season, Sunderland had only scored three goals in the nine games since they lost 3-0 here in March. Their leading marksman Wilson Isidor, left out of last week’s home defeat by QPR, had not scored for 13 games.

So it was no wonder the CBS Arena was awash with optimism.

We all know what happened next … Read the full report below.