Tony Mowbray insists Sunderland deserved their last-gasp win against Blackburn Rovers after they came from behind to win at the Stadium of Light. The Black Cats recovered after Ross Stewart scored an unfortunate own-goal inside the opening 20 minutes, with the Scot winning a penalty just minutes later which he went on to convert.
And then in injury-time at the end of the match, sub Ellis Simms scored a dramatic winning goal to give Mowbray's new club victory against his former employers. "Ultimately, I think we deserved the victory," said Mowbray.
"We played a good side today with some really talented young players, but I thought that we were pretty dominant in the first half - most of the play was going in the direction of their goal. They scored from a set-play, they have four huge 6ft 3in players in [Ben] Brereton Diaz, [Sam] Gallagher, [Daniel] Ayala and [Dominic] Hyam, so it is always difficult to defend against them, and it was a ricochet really, wasn't it?
