'Title charge is on' - Sunderland fans react to 'unreal' 3-0 win over Burton Albion

Sunderland manager Lee Johnson. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Sunderland kept their promising run of form going with a 3-0 win over Burton Albion on Saturday – and fans have been quick to react on social media.

The Black Cats built on last weekend’s comprehensive victory over Doncaster Rovers with another assured display this afternoon.

Grant Leadbitter opened the scoring early on with a strike from distance before Lyndon Gooch doubled the lead with an eye-catching effort of his own.

Albion were reduced to 10 men shortly after the interval when Josh Earl saw red for a second bookable offence, and Lee Johnson's side hammered home their numerical advantage when Charlie Wyke notched his 18th league goal of the season after latching on to a through ball from substitute Jordan Jones.

We’ve gathered some of the best tweets from supporters on Twitter below:

@EthanSmith1717 tweeted: “What a game this was”.

@LauraMaggiore10 tweeted: “Unreal! Bring on Tuesday night”

@SAFCLJ tweeted: “GET IN. Title charge?”

@JaiOliver5 tweeted: “Title charge is on boys”

@aimeegordon_x tweeted: “A good comfortable win. Normally in a game like this we’d be saying typical Sunderland but it was nice to see the lads put a decent shift in! Luke O’Nien is just mint, proper love him”.

@John67684101 tweeted: “Well done guys… seemed a very different Sunderland today. Confident, in control, great belief, and we only seemed in third gear. Continuation of the push for promotion?”

@Safcjonny tweeted: “What a great week. Beat Doncaster 4-1. Into the Papa John’s final. Takeover done. Won today”

@D_M__98 tweeted: “Quality performance”

@rhystdd tweeted: “Can’t wait for those Champions League nights”