Middlesbrough 1-2 Burnley: Vincent Kompany's Clarets win promotion to Premier League
Vincent Kompany's Burnley secured promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt with victory over fourth-placed Middlesbrough.
Connor Roberts steered in the winner from Nathan Tella's near-post cross and Kompany's men saw out the rest of the game in comfort to spark wild celebrations on the pitch and among their travelling fans. Despite a massive turnaround of players in the summer following the end of their six-year spell in the Premier League they have become the first team in the English Football League to secure promotion in 2022-23, having been top of the table since 25 October.
For fourth-placed Middlesbrough this was a damaging second successive defeat and they are eight points adrift of the Blades, who have also played a game fewer.Burnley have now won promotion to the Premier League in each of their past three seasons in the second tier. They suffered defeat at Watford in the third game of the campaign and had just six points from their first five matches, but Kompany did not waiver and a 16-match unbeaten run sent them to the top of the league.
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