A bizarre afternoon on Merseyside saw Sunderland suffer defeat to Everton by 6 goals to 2. The Black Cats crawled back from two goals down when Jermain Defoe and Steven Fletcher scored either side of half-time to make it 2-2. However, Everton ran away with the game from then, with Arouna Kone bagging a hat-trick.
Questions will be asked of Sam Allardyce’s system with a 3-5-2 formation being used and simply not working. Whilst many individuals may have played themselves out of the team.
Here is how the Sunderland players rated:
