Sunderland V Everton: Premier League – Live

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Preamble

Oh well, it was nosy while it lasted. The Premier League array has been a array of nan unexpected for nan past mates of months, but now nan accustomed apical 3 – Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool – are successful spot and that’s nan extremity of nan that.

Wrong!

Okay, perchance wrong! Sunderland, nan squad of nan play truthful far, will jump backmost up to 2nd if they hit Everton astatine nan Stadium of Light. More importantly, successful nan expansive scheme, a triumph would return them to 20 points – halfway to reaching 40, though you don’t request that galore to debar relegation immoderate more. In nan past 2 seasons, 27 points would person been enough.

Everton’s relegation battles consciousness for illustration a point of nan past, moreover if they are only 4 points supra 18th-placed West Ham. Their distant shape – a triumph astatine Wolves and 3 defeats – has yet to deed nan dizzy heights achieved earlier successful nan twelvemonth erstwhile David Moyes returned to nan club. But 2 of those defeats were astatine Anfield and nan Etihad, truthful we shouldn’t publication excessively overmuch into it. At slightest not yet.

Kick disconnected 8pm.