Source: PA
Scharner earns big win for Baggies
Paul Scharner dumped Sunderland deep into relegation trouble as West Brom gave their own Barclays Premier League survival hopes a massive boost with a 3-2 win.
The Austria international fired home a 72nd-minute winner at the Stadium of Light to leave his former boss at Wigan, Steve Bruce, in the thick of the fight against the drop.
Victory extended the Baggies' unbeaten run to seven games, six of them under new manager Roy Hodgson, and left Sunderland with just a single point from the past 24 they have contested in a disastrous run.
The home side took a 10th-minute lead through Nicky Shorey's own goal - their first strike in seven and a half hours of football - but the impressive Peter Odemwingie, who scored the only goal in the reverse fixture in August, levelled within 19 minutes.
Phil Bardsley's 31st-minute piledriver restored the Black Cats' advantage, but Youssouf Mulumbu finished off a fine 54th-minute move to set the stage for Scharner to snatch victory and a first league double over their hosts in 42 years.
