Tom Fellows picks the ball up down the right for West Brom, twisting and turning away from defenders before arrowing a cut-back which is dealt with.

Sunderland clear, but the Baggies ending the half in some ascendancy.

Five minutes added time.

West Brom work the ball into Grady Diangana in the Sunderland box, but he can't get a yard to put the shot cleanly as Dan Ballard blocks and it loops away for a corner.

Blackburn still trail Leeds headed into the break but the hosts are doing their best to level things up.

Adam Wharton swings a corner into the Leeds box but James Hill's looping header misses the target.

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Sunderland are getting joy down the flanks, through Patrick Roberts and Jack Clarke, plus with Niall Huggins when he has pushed forward.

West Brom's threat has subsided a little in the last five to 10 minutes, but when they have looked sharp, Grady Diangana has been one of their standouts.

Dean Plumley: Who had it on their bingo cards that Dan James would be the star of this Leeds team, what a season he is having??

Three goals in three games and seven in total for the season. Four assists, too. Not a bad return for the Leeds midfielder.

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West Brom forced into a change here, as Josh Maja painfully limps away from the field.

Some fans let him know about their feelings following his Sunderland exit back in 2019.

Tom Fellows, who many have been urging to get a chance, is on in his place.

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Josh Maja is chopped by Sunderland defender Dan Ballard, who scissored the former Black Cat with a thunderous challenge to earn a yellow card.

Maja writhes in agony. Ballard gets the booking.

The free-kick is belted in from the left of the Baggies box by Sunderland and cleared, but Adil Aouchiche's snap-shot is easily claimed by visiting keeper Alex Palmer.

Blackburn looking to immediately break level against Leeds after Daniel James' impressive strike.

Sammie Szmodics plays the ball to James Hill who works the ball back to him but Szmodics can't quite divert his headed effort on target.

Jeremy Sarmiento looks to take on Niall Huggins, and the West Brom winger is a box of tricks but the Sunderland man stands his ground.

Sarmiento has been the livewire for the visitors.

Sunderland attack down the left with Jack Clarke, who meanders his way toward goal but is felled on the edge of the box.

Danger here.

Jon Newsome
Ex-Leeds defender on BBC Radio Leeds

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It's a super strike. Dan James has a touch, gets his head up, sees the corner, then bang.

Leeds slowly working their way into this game against Blackburn now.

Georginio Rutter is teed up inside the Rovers box but he fires off target.

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West Brom, in their luminous green away kit for this one, are tidy in possession.

Their players all look confident on the ball, but there's not a lot of penetration of the Sunderland defensive shape.

They're equally well-drilled.

Break in play. Both head coaches are gesticulating with enthusiasm with players eagerly looking on, to the extent if they had a whistle in their mouths and a glow stick they could be on a 1990s trance club's podium.

Tony Brown
West Brom's all-time record goalscorer on BBC Radio WM

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It wasn't a penalty, the referee is having none of it.

I think that was [a dive]. It's never a penalty, he has gone down too easy.

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Patrick Roberts scurries into the West Brom box for Sunderland, weaving in and out of the defenders, but his touch is loose, and then he goes down.

Sunderland's supporters rise in rage. Screaming for a penalty.

Nothing doing.

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What Kyril Louis-Dreyfus has seen so far is a side showing all the hallmarks of Tony Mowbray's time in charge at Sunderland.

A brave team of largely young players who have been coached to play football in an attacking, inventive manner.

Hope he's got a replacement up his sleeve, the next appointment will be important for the next steps - having seemingly established themselves as a Championship force.

Leeds win a free-kick in a dangerous area.

Joel Piroe curls it goalbound but his effort sails just wide of Blackburn keeper Leopold Wahlstedt's post.

Not a great deal happening in the opening stages between Blackburn and Leeds.

The visitors travel to Ewood Park with a six-game unbeaten run and their eyes firmly on the top of the table.

But as yet they have failed to test Rovers.

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Just for a second the Stadium of Light is jumping as the ball ends up in the back of the West Brom net for Sunderland.

The Baggies made a fluff of a clearance, Sunderland got to the loose ball quickest, Adil Aouchiche crosses for Patrick Roberts whose initial shot is saved.

Jobe Bellingham buries the loose ball but the flag goes up for offside.

Looked a harsh call.