Championship roundup: Sunderland maintain perfect start at Portsmouth

  • Romaine Mundle scores third as Black Cats win 3-1
  • West Brom into top two with 1-0 win over Swansea

Sunderland continued their perfect start to the Championship season with a 3-1 win over Portsmouth. The Black Cats have a 100 percent record and, despite conceding for the first time in almost seven hours in stoppage time, they cruised to victory on the south coast. Zak Swanson’s calamitous own goal, Alan Browne’s close-range effort and Romaine Mundle’s fine end to a counter attack continued Sunderland’s best start to a season for 99 years – where they also began with a quartet of victories.

West Brom climbed into the top two by continuing their unbeaten start to the season with a 1-0 win against Swansea at The Hawthorns. Jayson Molumby’s first goal for 16 months gave Albion a deserved lead in the first minute of time added on at the end of the first half. Carlos Corberan’s side dominated that first period and could easily have been four goals to the good. But it was a different story after the break as Swansea created several chances.

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Everton 2-3 Bournemouth, Leicester 1-2 Aston Villa: Premier League – as it happened

Everton fell to pieces against Bournemouth, while Aston Villa secured their second win of the campaign at the King Power

… so here’s what the Premier League looks like going into today’s 3pms. Should Forest stick four past Wolves without reply, they’ll go top, top, top … for a couple of hours at least. It’s almost as if none of this really means anything until November or so, but hey, you try filling up the internet at 2.43pm on a Saturday in August.

There’s also an early batch of results in from the Championship …

Burnley 1-1 Blackburn Rovers

Cardiff City 0-2 Middlesbrough

Coventry City 0-1 Norwich City

Blackpool 2-2 Wycombe Wanderers

Rotherham United 2-1 Huddersfield Town

Gillingham 1-0 Chesterfield

Port Vale 2-3 Doncaster Rovers

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