Sbragia's men finish strongly.

HULL CITY 1

SUNDERLAND 4

MANAGERLESS Sunderland struck three late goals to continue their revival under caretaker boss Ricky Sbragia at the expense of 10-man Hull.

Sunderland were second best in the first half after veteran Nick Barmby can celled out Steed Mal-branque's superb opener.

But the Wearsiders fin ished strongly in the final 13 minutes after an own goal from Kamil Zayatte and fur ther efforts from Kenwyne Jones and Djibril Cisse.

The game had looked to be heading for a draw until Kier-an Richardson's shot took a wicked deflection off Zayatte to give the visitors the lead.

The game then got beyond Hull as Sam Ricketts was sent off soon after for two bookable offences.

Sunderland went into the game unchanged from the side that secured last week's 4-0 win over West Brom. Bernard Mendy dropped back to fill the defensive role with Richard Garcia coming in on the right wing but it was on the opposite flank, through Barmby, where Hull impressed early on.

Malbranque's brilliant strike gave Sunderland the lead after 10 minutes when he calmly shot over Boaz Myhill. But Hull were level eight minutes later.

It came from a long Myhill ball with Michael Turner get ting forward to reach a Zay atte flick-on and shoot at Marton Fulop.

The goalkeeper saved but Barmby blasted home in the ensuing scramble.

Barmby was at the heart of much of Hull's attacking play and both he and Geovanni forced saves out of Fulop.

Sunderland were much steadier after the break and cancelled out Hull's attack ing threat.

Hull changed their ap proach with striker Daniel Cousin coming on to replace Garcia.

Barmby's hard-working shift came to an end after 67 minutes when replaced by Stelios Giannakopoulos.

Cousin had the ball in the net on 72 minutes after good work by Geovanni but was flagged offside.

Things got worse for Hull when Ricketts, having just been booked for a foul on Malbranque, gained a sec ond yellow card for a poor challenge on Bardsley.

Sunderland took advan tage of their numerical ad vantage and killed off the game six minutes from time when Malbranque fired in a cross and Jones headed home from close range.