Amad Diallo electrifies Sunderland in win against 10-man Middlesbrough

When Tony Mowbray played for Middlesbrough his manager, Bruce Rioch, maintained the centre-half was the man he would want alongside him on a rocket flight to the moon. Almost four decades on, Sunderland supporters have increasing reason to believe Mowbray’s navigation skills could be about to transport them to new heights. Buoyed by a crowd of 42,584 his gifted, audaciously attack-minded, young team certainly proved far too good for Michael Carrick’s previously upwardly mobile Middlesbrough side.

Although Boro spent most of the second half with 10 men, a Sunderland team inspired by the Manchester United loanee Amad Diallo’s attacking excellence were already well on top by the time Dael Fry was sent off. Goals from Diallo and Ross Stewart lifted them to ninth, one point adrift of sixth-placed Boro who had won seven of their previous eight Championship games. What price this sweet passing pair meet again in the playoffs?

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/22/sunderland-middlesbrough-championship-match-report

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