Watch live on NBC.com<\/a><\/p>\nCity have won six-straight Premier League matches \u2014 three home and three away \u2014 and sit five points back of Premier League leaders Arsenal with a match-in-hand on the Gunners.<\/p>\n
Their hosts continue to impress in their return to the Premier League and are on their third run of at least three matches unbeaten after beating Newcastle and drawing both Brighton and Leeds. Regis Le Bris will rival anyone for Premier League Manager of the Year as he has Sunderland seventh with 28 points despite losing six players to this month\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n
Sunderland team news, focus<\/b><\/p>\n
OUT: Chemsdine Talbi (international duty – AFCON), Aji Alese (shoulder), Noah Sadiki (international duty – AFCON), Reinildo Mandava (international duty – AFCON), Arthur Masuaku (international duty – AFCON), Bertrand Traore (international duty – AFCON), Habib Diarra (international duty – AFCON) | QUESTIONABLE: Dan Ballard (ankle)<\/p>\n
Manchester City team news, focus<\/b><\/p>\n
OUT: John Stones (unspecified), Rayan Ait-Nouri (international duty – AFCON), Omar Marmoush (international duty – AFCON), Mateo Kovacic (ankle), Oscar Bobb (thigh) | QUESTIONABLE: Jeremy Doku (calf)<\/p>\n
Sunderland vs Manchester City prediction<\/b><\/p>\n
Le Bris may be a wizard but so is Pep Guardiola, whose team is looking healthy and ready to compete on four fronts. With an almost absurd 43 goals this season, they dare teams to outscore them. Sunderland shouldn\u2019t be able to do that, even at the bubbling cauldron that is the Stadium of Light. Sunderland 0-2 Manchester City<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City dropped a pair of pivotal points on Thursday, as they went away to newly promoted Sunderland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-667930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}