Sunderland 1 Manchester City 0: match report After eight minutes, a header from Vincent Kompany hit the bar and Yaya Toure looked certain to drill home the rebound, only for Mignolet to stick out a foot. Toure went for placement with his next effort, curling the ball towards the top corner, only for Mignolet to pluck it out of the air. The Belgian international needed to be at his very best again in the 24th minutes as a searing run from Sergio Aguero allowed him to pull the ball back for Silva. The Spaniard looked certain to score, but Mignolet had read the danger and came off his line to once again save with his feet. Sunderland, though, were intent on doing rather more in the game than just defending and with City lacking their usual crispness, the Black Cats grew into the contest. Craig Gardner, Adam Johnson and Seb Larsson all wasted free-kick's in promising positions on the edge of the area, while Joe Hart had to be at his very best to keep out Steven Fletcher's low shot as it curled towards the bottom corner. City were also thankful to Vincent Kompany, who somehow managed to get a boot to Larsson's low cross with Fletcher ready to pounce inside the six yard box. Roberto Mancini needed to galvanise his players at half-time, but whatever he said failed to have the desired effect. Sunderland began to sense they could grab another famous victory and when Johnson saw Hart had left a huge gap at his near post, the winger thumped a low shot goalwards which the England international could not prevent from squeezing home. Aguero might have equalised when played in by James Milner, but again Mignolet was quick to come off his line and made another excellent save. Sunderland (4-4-1-1): Mignolet; Gardner, Kilgallon, Cuellar, Rose (Bardsley 88); Johnson, Colback, Larsson (Campbell 78), McClean; Sessegnon; Fletcher. Subs not used: Westwood, Wickham, McFadden, Vaughan, Bramble. Booked: Colback Manchester City (4-2-3-1): Hart; Kolo Toure (Barry 86), Kompany, Nastasic, Zabaleta; Yaya Toure, Garcia (Lescott 89); Milner, Tevez (Dzeko 72), Silva; Aguero. Subs not used: Pantilimon, Razak, Sinclair, Rekik. Booked: Kompany, Yaya Toure, Nastasic