How Sunderland’s Ballard Turned Extra-Time Pressure into a Legendary Moment
Sunderland led 2-1 from the first leg, but it was Coventry who dominated the return at the Stadium of the Light, with the reward for their superiority coming when Ephron Mason-Clark levelled the tie on aggregate 14 minutes from the end of normal time.
Haji Wright wasted a gilt-edged chance to complete the turnaround at the end of second-half stoppage time, and that miss ultimately proved costly as Sunderland’s extra-time resilience paid dividends right at the death with penalties seemingly inevitable.
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