Sunderland v Coventry: Championship playoff semi-final, second leg – live

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Sunderland (4-4-2): Patterson; Hume, Ballard, O’Nien, Cirkin; Roberts, Neil, Bellingham, Le Fee; Mayenda, Isidor.
Subs: Moore, Browne, Rigg, Mundle, Abdul Samed, Mepham, Hjelde, Watson, Jones.

Coventry (4-2-3-1): Wilson; van Ewijk, Thomas, Kitching, Dasilva; Grimes, Sheaf; Sakamoto, Rudoni, Wright; Mason-Clark.
Subs: Collins, Binks, Allen, Simms, Paterson, Bidwell, Thomas-Asante,
Latibeaudiere, Eccles.

Referee: Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire)

Preamble

Coventry City haven’t played successful the Premier League since 2001; Sunderland fell retired of the apical formation successful 2017 and are yet to return. Both clubs have, to antithetic degrees, been done troubled times since, but present the aureate summons is successful scope again.

Chris Wilder and his Sheffield United broadside are the final-level brag waiting astatine Wembley’s gates, but lone 1 squad volition get to instrumentality them on. Sunderland person a wide borderline aft winning 2-1 astatine the CBS Arena past week, but the playoffs are seldom truthful straightforward.

Will Frank Lampard proceed his awesome run, taking Coventry from relegation fears to the playoff final? Or volition Régis Le Bris backmost up his claims that Sunderland’s beach-worthy precocious league signifier would amended erstwhile it counted?

There’s lone 1 mode to find out. Join maine for kick-off astatine 8pm BST, with squad quality to come.