A terrific Tees-Wear derby illuminated by the imagination and sweet passing incision of Sunderland’s Enzo Le Fée and Middlesbrough’s Hayden Hackney ended with Régis Le Bris’s visitors only three points off an automatic promotion place.

While Sunderland celebrated quite a comeback, Boro’s manager, Michael Carrick, looked almost close to tears after Le Fée glided beyond Luke Ayling and a mortified Ryan Giles diverted the Frenchman’s late cross into his own net.