;After the mystery of Sergio Agüero's injured foot, viewers of the Manchester City Vaudeville tuned in to see if they were witnessing a full-scale, late-season implosion.
On this evidence, the jury is out. Mario Balotelli's and Aleksandar Kolarov's late, late goals rescued a point but the result still allows Manchester United to go five ahead if they defeat Blackburn Rovers on Monday. A further win over Queens Park Rangers next Sunday and City will arrive at Arsenal later that afternoon eight points behind the champions with only seven of their games remaining.
In a week that City scholars may mark down as one when it all went wrong for the Blues, Agüero's crocked tootsie was joined by Balotelli's gate-crashing of an Internazionale press conference before Sunderland rolled up to take a dozing City apart and end a run of 20 straight home league wins.
Martin O'Neill continues to produce sides that should never be written off and the Irishman closed his afternoon with mixed emotions after a fluid display faded as final whistle approached. "Yes. I thought we played brilliantly today and am obviously disappointed to have dropped some points," the Sunderland manager said. Of City's comeback, it was down to "two things really. We are the first team to take some points off them [here, for more than a year].
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