Joe Nicholson reacts after Sunderland's 3-1 win over QPR at Loftus Road

Joe Nicholson reacts after Sunderland's 3-1 win over QPR at Loftus Road after second-half goals from Dan Ballard and Abdoullah Ba

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00:00 Outside Loftus Road where Sunderland have come from a goal down to beat QPR 3-1 in the

00:06 Championship.

00:07 Another good result for Tony Mowbray's side who have now taken 10 points from their last

00:12 4 games.

00:13 It wasn't always easy for them today, they did fall a goal down inside 12 minutes after

00:17 Kenneth Paul's low shot beat Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson.

00:21 But a significant moment around the 20 minute mark when former Sunderland midfielder Jack

00:25 Colbeck was showing a straight red card for QPR, a late tackle on Joe Bellingham.

00:31 It was very late, Studs seemed to be showing as well and he was sent off.

00:35 But even after that it was quite frustrating for Sunderland, weren't really able to rate

00:39 QPR down and a few sloppy passes in the final third as they struggled to find an equaliser.

00:46 But that came on the stroke of half time, right before half time actually, the 8th minute

00:50 of stoppage time when Jack Clarke cut in from the left and his deflected shot went past

00:55 the QPR goalkeeper Azmi Begovic and that really gave momentum to Sunderland in the second

01:00 half.

01:01 They were much better after the break, really went on the front foot.

01:04 Tony Mowbray made a positive substitution by bringing on Patrick Roberts in place of

01:08 Niall Huggins.

01:09 So a winger coming on for a full back.

01:11 Roberts actually played in more of a central position and it was really just attack vs

01:16 defence in that second half.

01:18 Sunderland then managed to take the lead, Alex Pritchard's shot was saved and Dan Ballard

01:22 converted the rebound to make it 2-1.

01:25 Sunderland continued after that, could have had more than the three goals.

01:28 They scored Abdullah Barre getting on the score sheet as well, nine minutes from time

01:33 converting Adil Oshish's cross, a debut for Oshish who came off the bench.

01:38 Mason Verstoe also made his debut for Sunderland as well today.

01:42 Few injury concerns with Dennis Serkin and Bradley Dac missing out and Pierre Equart

01:47 went off early in the second half.

01:48 He was replaced by Alex Pritchard who I actually thought was excellent today.

01:51 He came on and really was creating chances and really linking up play and helping kind

01:56 of dictate the tempo especially in that second half.

01:58 It's another good performance from him.

01:59 Equart hopefully not too bad.

02:00 He was out on the pitch afterwards applauding the Sunderland away fans who were here again

02:05 in good numbers today.

02:06 And to see another good away win for the Black Cats.

02:08 So they'll go again.

02:09 It's a busy week for them.

02:11 They're away at Blackburn on Wednesday so you can find more reaction to today's result

02:14 over on the SAFC section of the Sunderland Echo website.