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Jesurun Rak-Sakyi struck the winner for Sheffield United as they moved up to second in the Championship with a 2-1 victory over Portsmouth.
Gustavo Hamer struck first for the Blades before Connor Ogilvie’s quickfire equaliser midway through the first half. The decisive moment came on 73 minutes when substitutes Rhian Brewster and Rak-Sakyi combined, with the latter, on loan from Crystal Palace, timing his run to steer Brewster’s low cross into the net. It moved the Blades to within two points of leaders Leeds, and meant a seventh consecutive away league defeat for Portsmouth.
Tom Cleverley said he will forgive his Watford players for the “schoolboy stuff” that cost them a much-needed victory against promotion-chasing Sunderland. After three defeats on the bounce, Watford looked set for a deserved win at the Stadium of Light as they responded to Luke O’Nien’s early Sunderland opener with a Tom Dele-Bashiru penalty and a stunning strike from Imran Louza.
But the Black Cats, who have not lost at home all season, grabbed a last-gasp leveller when Dennis Cirkin bundled in Enzo Le Fee’s corner and had two glorious chances to win it in stoppage time through Wilson Isidor and substitute Milan Aleksic.
Cleverley was disappointed with his side’s handling of the game in the final stages but proud of the overall performance. “I thought for 60, 65 minutes we were excellent,” he said. “We didn’t create too many chances but felt a sense of control and we frustrated the home support. We were nowhere near good enough in the last 10 minutes, there was some schoolboy stuff at the end which I’m disappointed about, but that’s an easy problem for me to fix as a coach.”
Tony Mowbray praised his West Brom players for “creating chaos” after Jayson Molumby’s stoppage-time winner earned them a dramatic late 2-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday.
Albion looked to be set for a second straight home victory when debutant Adam Armstrong netted 16 minutes from time. It remained level heading into stoppage time but that was when the drama began. Substitute Callum Paterson’s goal four minutes into the added period looked to have salvaged Wednesday a point – but Albion were not done as Molumby turned in a Mikey Johnston corner two minutes later.
It boiled over at full time, with Baggies defender Kyle Bartley sent off for a coming together with Svante Ingelsson, but Mowbray was delighted with his side’s display. “If you break the 90 minutes down I think we deserved to win the game,” he said. “I have said to my players this week, we very rarely score late goals, we need to create more chaos and gamble a bit. It was a set play with Molumby on the move in the box and it was a great feeling for the supporters. It was a game we should have won and we made sure we did in the end, it was quite dramatic.”
Substitute Jerry Yates converted a stoppage-time penalty to earn Derby a 1-1 draw at Norwich and end a run of seven successive league defeats in the process.
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Norwich looked to be heading for a third straight win, and a place in the play-off zone, when Josh Sargent scored his fourth goal in three games to put them in front midway through the second period. But the Rams, a day after parting company with manager Paul Warne, kept battling and got their reward when Marcus Harness was brought down in the area. Yates kept his cool to earn his side a precious point under caretaker Matt Hamshaw.
