Sunderland boss Roy Keane is demanding a winning consistency from his players.

Keane said: "The teams down and around where we are aren't capable of getting two or three wins [on the trot]. It's proving difficult for a lot of teams.

"You seem to have one good result, then two or three bad ones.

"Every now and again, it's easy to win one game of football, but it is continuing to win, that's the problem we have all found, and that's why it is so tight.

"The key is can you get back-to-back results and get up that table? We have not managed to do that ourselves for a long, long time.

"But the position we are in, if we are not at the races, we will be beaten. We have got to be at it week in, week out."