Jermain Defoe scored his 150th Premier League goal as Sunderland beat Hull City to claim a vital three points. Hull dominated for the majority of the game, but a magical goal from Defoe set the Black Cats on their way totheir first home win of the season.
Sunderland made one change to the side that beat Bournemouth 2-1, a forced change in Jason Denayer starting for the suspended Steven Pienaar. Hull gave youngster Josh Tymon his Premier League debut, meanwhile Dieumerci Mbokani and Robert Snodgrass both started, coming in for the injured Abel Hernandez and Will Keane.
◾� | Josh Tymon makes his @PremierLeague debut for the Tigers & Curtis Davies brings up his 150th @PremierLeague start #SUNHUL pic.twitter.com/Nv3j7X0c4v
In the opening ten minutes, Jordan Pickford was forced to make two excellent saves to deny the Tigers from getting an early lead, as Hull put some early pressure on the home side, who we're yet to win at this season.
With 15-minutes of the half left and Sunderland yet to make a real goal scoring opportunity they were walking on thin ice. The shaky defence just hanging on with Ryan Mason and Mbokani pressuring David Moyes' side with good efforts on goal.
But it's a game of taking chances and it was Defoe getting his 150th Premier League goals to break the deadlock, running at the Tigers defence, beating Ahmed Elmohamady then ex-Spurs teammate Michael Dawson and firing past David Marshall to give the Black Cats an unlikely lead heading into the break.
HALF TIME: #SAFC lead thanks to @IAmJermainDefoe's 34th minute strike #HawayTheLads pic.twitter.com/QI8p0le274
Just a couple of minutes into the second half, play had to be stopped, withthe power going down at the Stadium of Lights and play resumed ten minutes later as Hull looked to turn the result around in their favour.
Mason had another effort dragged wide of the far post, after Snodgrass cleverly found him with a pullback outside the six-yard-box as the Tigers' intensity dropped, while Sunderland grew in confidence and looked for that second goal to seal the win.
And that's just what they did, Partick Van Aanholt finding Anichebe on the right-hand side of the box, his touch beat Tymon and the Nigerian then blasted his shot beneath Marshall in the Hull net, who should of done much better.
Anichebe finished the Tigers off with another powerful strike late in the game to give the Black Cats a first home victory of the season, after a stumbling start to the season, they are now just four points off West Ham in 17th.
Line-Ups
Sunderland XI: Pickford, Jones, Djilobodji, Kone, Van Aanholt, McNair, Denayer, Watmore, N'Dong,Anichebe, Defoe
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Hull XI: Marshall, Elmohamady, Davies, Dawson, Tymon, Snodgrass, Livermore, Mason, Clucas, Henriksen, Mbokani
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