Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce suggested Manchester City were simply more clinical at the Stadium of Light on Tuesday night.

The Black Cats were beaten 1-0 at home by Manuel Pellegrini's City side who scored the only goal of the game through Sergio Aguero in the 16th minute.

City ended the match with just two shots on goal while Sunderland had a number of chances to tie it up but lacked the efficiency of the second-placed Citizens.

"It is only a miss of a few chances today, and good chances, and perhaps on another day we might have actually converted two, never mind one," he said on Sky Sports.

"But certainly at the very end of the game I thought we deserved at the very least a point out of this game.

"The good thing is the level of the performance and the fact that today we have created more chances than Man City. And, of course, when you have an Aguero in your side in the goalscoring form he is in, he does not need more than one.

"I think at half-time they had five shots in total, four off target and the one on target they scored, so that shows you how deadly he is. And we could not find that golden touch to get us a goal and at least a point today, which is very sad on the performance."