Sunderland moved three points clear at the top of the Championship with a 2-1 win at Luton.
Carlton Morris’s first-half strike was controversially ruled out for offside and the home side were left to rue other missed chances when the visitors took the lead early in the second half.
A ball into the space between the two centre-backs found Chris Rigg and the 17-year-old showed great composure to control and drill a shot into the bottom right corner to give the title hopefuls the lead on 55 minutes.
Morris and Elijah Adebayo combined to level the game eight minutes later. A corner was sent back into the danger zone on the volley by Morris and Adebayo was well positioned to nod in the equaliser for his first goal of the campaign.
Luton’s leveller was short-lived as Sunderland edged ahead again three minutes later. Jobe Bellingham hustled to turn the ball over and, after Romaine Mundle drove down the left, the winger cut inside with ease past Luton’s defence before he produced a rifled shot into the top right corner.
That was enough to move them three points clear of Leeds and Burnley, who were held to a 1-1 draw at Hull. Xavier Simons gave Hull the lead with a deflected strike just before the break, the first time Burnley had conceded in 453 minutes. But Zian Flemming headed in a 77th-minute equaliser to extend Burnley’s unbeaten run to eight matches and move them above Leeds into second in the table.
Sheffield United are six points adrift of Sunderland after losing 1-0 at Middlesbrough. Emmanuel Latte Lath’s 80th-minute header earned Boro a first win in three as the Blades suffered back-to-back defeats.
West Brom moved above Sheffield United and into fourth on goals scored after their 0-0 draw at Blackburn. Given these sides have identical league records, it was perhaps unsurprising they could not be separated as Blackburn’s perfect home league start was ended.
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Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth remain without a win on the road in six league games this season after a 1-0 defeat at Millwall. A first-half goal from the 19-year-old winger Romain Esse piled on the away-day misery for the former England captain.
