Manchester City won thier third Capital-One cup trophy in the history of the club as they rallied from behind to snatch a hard fought 3-1 victory over a spirited Sunderland side in the Capital One Cup final at Wembley.
Two wonderous strikes from Yaya Toure and Samir Nasri and last minute strike from Jesus Navas gave manager, Manuel Pellegrini his first trophy as Manchester City boss after Fabio Borini had put Sunderland ahead when he opened the scoring in the 10th minute of the game.
City were overwhelming favourites to make amends for last season's shock FA Cup final defeat by Wigan but were given a fright after they fell behind to a goal from Borini.
Borini, the Italy striker, on loan from Liverpool, chased down a long ball over the top by former City midfielder, Adam Johnson and shrugged off Vincent Kompany before he poked a low shot into the corner of the net with the outside of his boot.
Sunderland look more likely to win the game in the first half as they constantly attack the defence of the citizens.
It was however a different story in the second half as two lovely strikes set City on a journey to victory.
With just 10 minutes of play in the second half, Pablo Zabaleta, played a pass square to Yaya Toure and the Ivorian planted his 30 yards curling long-range strike into the top-left corner.
City went ahead with 105seconds later, France international, Nasri latched onto a Kolarov cross on the edge of the box to strike a sublime first time shot into the corner leaving Manone rooted to the spot as he watch the ball go into the net and put City ahead.
Seeing the game slipping away from their graps, Sundaerland commited men forward in search of the equalizer, but they were punished once again, when they were caught on the counter in a five against two situation and Jesus Navas buried the ball into the bottom corner at the near post to take the final score to 3-1.
The Victory gives City their third League cup trophy after previous victories in 1970 against West Bromwich Albion and 1976 against Newcastle United.
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