Gus Poyet: "Look, I didn't like to see the table. When you are bottom, it's not nice. We are off the bottom - that's something; we beat the biggest rivals - that's even bigger.
"Now we need to keep going. We need to start passing the ball better, we need to keep believing and we need to do different things.
"This is what we needed so, from now on, there are no excuses because we needed a lift and there is no better lift than this one, so I am very happy for the players and absolutely delighted for the fans.
"I saw what it means all this week in town. I imagine how it is going to be this week - I don't know how much it matters being second from bottom, it's just about beating the rivals and everyone will have a nice week, I will tell you that."
Sunderland Fixtures
Tuesday October 29
20.00 League Cup
Sunderland v Southampton
Saturday November 2
15:00 Premier League
Hull City v Sunderland
Sunday November 10
14:05 Premier League
Sunderland v Manchester City
Sunderland Squad
3.Dossena
4.Ki
5.Brown
6.Cabral
7.Larsson
8.Gardner
9.Fletcher
10.Wickham
11.Johnson A
12.Celustka
14.Colback
15.Vaughan
16.O'Shea
17.Altidore
18.Mandron
19.Moberg Karlsson
20.Westwood
21.Diakite
22.Ba
23.Giaccherini
24.Cuellar
25.Mannone
27.Ji
29.Roberge
31.Borini
33.Cattermole
35.Mavrias