A second successive 5-1 victory sees Lincoln City Ladies sit proudly at the top of the FA Tesco Women's Premier League Northern Division table.

A week after winning 5-1 at Tranmere, the Lady Imps demolished Sunderland, who last season played in the top flight, on home turf by an identical scoreline.

It took City just six minutes to open the scoring, a 25-yard half-volley from last season's top scorer Jodie Snelson paving the way for the comfortable victory.

In-form Stacey Aisthorpe added another on the quarter hour mark before she netted again 11 minutes into the second period with a delicate chip, before a Stephanie Bannon own-goal compounded the Black Cats' misery.

Snelson made it 5-0 14 minutes from time with Jessica Havelock grabbing a late consolation for the visitors.

"To be fair, Sunderland were the better team early on but after half-time our strength and power took over," said a happy manager Rod Wilson.

"We didn't play that well, funny though it may seem, and we can perform a lot better. But with Aisthorpe and Snelson on fire we are going to be a handful for anyone.

"But it's early days yet and we will have some far tougher encounters to come and we have to keep our feet on the ground and keep working hard."

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