Sergio Aguero served up a reminder that there is life before Pep Guardiola as Manchester City maintained their Premier League title challenge with a hard-fought victory at Sunderland.
The Argentina international's 17th goal of the season was enough to claim a 1-0 win at the Stadium of Light, where the Black Cats suggested they could yet dig themselves out of relegation trouble.
City were far from at their best and it took fine saves by keeper Joe Hart to deny Jermain Defoe, who found himself embroiled in a running battle with defenders Martin Demichelis and Nicolas Otamendi, Billy Jones and substitute Wahbi Khazri in front of a crowd of 38,852.
But Aguero's 16th-minute strike proved sufficient to keep current boss Manuel Pellegrini, taking charge of his 100th Premier League game, on track for an unprecedented quadruple.
Pellegrini redeployed his big guns as Hart, Demichelis, Yaya Toure, David Silva and Aguero
returned, but his men did not have it all their own way by any means before the break.
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