Sunderland suffered a second away defeat in the space of five days as they beaten at Coventry City. The Black Cats arrived in the Midlands having lost at lowly Rotherham in midweek, and this reverse against Mark Robins' play-off hopefuls at the Coventry Building Society Arena made it back-to-back defeats for only the second time this season for Tony Mowbray and his team.
Sunderland dominated possession throughout the game but Coventry were always a threat on the counter and they twice punished the Black Cats for giving the ball away. Jamie Allen put the hosts ahead just after the midway point in the first half, and man of the match Viktor Gyokeres added the second in the 89th minutes.
Sunderland had hit the woodwork through Danny Batth when the game was still goalless, but they had to wait until injury-time at the end of the match to get on the scoresheet when on-loan Manchester United forward Amad scored a brilliant consolation goal. The result meant Coventry climbed to within a point of the Black Cats, with the sides tenth and eighth respectively, at least until the remainder of this afternoon's Championship games kick off.
