City travel to the Stadium Of Light on wednesday night off the back of a stunning result at St.Mary's where they cooly put three past the Premier League suprise package Southampton. The Citizen's now sit six points behind leaders Chelsea. After getting thrashed away to Southampton,Sunderland have gone on to prove that they can defend. They have conceded seven goals in the last seven matches and held Chelsea to a stalemate on the weekend. Historically City have struggled while playing up in the North East against the team in red and white. City's last four meeting away to Sunderland have resulted in four 1-0 defeats.

Team News

City will be with Mangala who was sent off at the weekend. We are also waiting on news from Vincent Kompany who had to be withdrawn from the match at Southampton due to an injury. Other injuries include Dzeko, Silva, and Kolarov who are all set to miss the match.

Sunderland's Van Aanholt is set to miss out for the foreseeable future with a shoulder injury. Sunderland duo Jones and Giaccherini are also doubts for the match.

Stats

Sunderland have lost just one of the last six Barclays Premier League games against Manchester City (W3 D2 L1).

Sergio Aguero has scored 14 goals in his last 20 matches in the Premier League.

Manchester City have only conceded 1 goal from set pieces this season.

James Milner has scored more goals against Sunderland (5) than he has versus any other Premier League opponent.

Frank Lampard scored his 174th Premier League goal at the weekend against Southampton, leaving him one behind Thierry Henry (175) in the list of all-time Premier League goal-scorers. They are fifth and fourth respectively.

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