City eye return to winning

With 3 different goalscorers and an own goal, Manchester City sealed their passage to the fourth round of the Capital One Cup in style as Ola Toivonen only managed to get a consolation for Sunderland in the second half.

“In the last two games we didn’t play with the concentration or intensity we had shown in the first five games”, Pellegrini told reporters in his post-match press conference. I will set up a bit differently against Manchester City.

And after leaving top scorer Jermain Defoe on the bench, Advocaat has hinted that Borini will get another opportunity down the middle at Man United, as Sunderland continue their search for a first Premier League win.

“Man City have great players and were pushing to try to score but it wasn’t the day for them“, he concluded.

City were given a reality check as their impressive, 100 per cent start to the season came to an abrupt halt with defeats to Juventus and West Ham in the space of five days last week.

Producing a shock win over City in this match for the next Cup round could inspire Sunderland towards reaching the kind of form required to come back from what has been an incredibly hard opening gambit this campaign.

“It’s important now to be focusing game-by-game and not to think about individual players”.

Lastly, he praised the club and Hart himself: “This is the first really big club I’ve played for and I have a fantastic goalkeeper in-front of me [in Joe], who keeps improving which means I have to keep up with him, which is really good for me and my career”. Lastly, Eliaquim Mangala is questionable after suffering an injury this past weekend.

Sunderland finished three points clear of the drop with Advocaat as caretaker boss, before, after some reluctance and a meeting with his wife, he chose to take the job full time. John O’ Shea is questionable after recovering from an ailment.

Amid Arsenal’s controversial red cards and Diego Costa’s practice of the so-called “dark arts”, it was easy to lose sight of the fact that a game was played at Stamford Bridge. They are very good players and at the end of the season, we will see which are the best players in the league.

Head coach reacts to Manchester City reverse.

The teams met in the final of the competition two seasons ago with Manchester City rallying from behind to claim the trophy for a third time with a 3-1 victory.

There is no question that Sunderland fans will all be tuned in tonight, in hopes that their team can try to change something up and beat the best in the Premier League at home.