Sunderland 0 Manchester City 3
Sunderland's Premiership nightmare continued tonight as they took their goalless streak to eight hours at the Stadium of Light.
Marc-Vivien Foe, Sun Jihai and Shaun Goater scored to send Kevin Keegan's Manchester City up to mid-table.
Dismal Sunderland remain in the relegation dogfight and were booed off at the final whistle.
Bellion certainly added some impetus to his forward line and came agonisingly close to scoring in the 71st minute when he brilliantly evaded Dunne before firing a low shot which was well saved by Schmeichel.
City should have gone further ahead in the 84th minute when Dunne cut in from the left and found Anelka who somehow hit the bar from under the post.
Goater finished off Sunderland with a neat turn and low shot past Macho in the 87th minute.
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