Sunderland could rack up a rugby score here. DeAndre Yedlin's ball flies across the face of goal with Jermain Defoe desperately trying to reach it. Everton are shot.

This has been another pretty miserable showing from Everton. They surrendered at Leicester at the weekend and this is pretty much the same story. 

Richard Cohen: Dear Premier League season, Please end. Regards, All Everton fans.

Sumeer Rawal: Sunderland have done it again! Is Big Sam a Tony Pulis in disguise? Relegation survival at its finest.

FPL Oligarch: Big Sam... the legend continues.

Sunderland are enjoying themselves now. Hard to imagine there were any nerves at all in the early stages of this game. 

Kevin Kilbane
Ex-Everton winger on BBC Radio 5 live

"I spoke about the quality of Wahbi Khazri. He is almost shooting from the corner and causes so many problems for Robles. Kone is two yards out and it is a tap-in."

Everton enjoying a spell of possession inside the Sunderland half but they are doing little with it. The home fans continue to roar their side forward.

Close! Sunderland swing over a corner to the near post and it is met by a glancing header from Jan Kirchhoff that sends the ball fizzing past the far post.

Early chance for Everton. Gareth Barry heads a free-kick back across goal from the byline and the ball is met by the head of Matthew Pennington, but his effort is saved by Vito Mannone.

Everton had to do something. That something is the removal of Ross Barkley - who offered nothing in the first half - and Aaron Lennon's introduction.

We are back under way.

Anonymity: Sunderland's salvation could mean Martinez's personal relegation from the Premier League. 

Derek Bish: Well, Kone got hold of that one! May have killed Robles if he'd got in the way of it 

Alex Yates: Forget Vardy's party, I want to go to big Sam's party! 

Kevin Kilbane
Ex-Everton winger on BBC Radio 5 live

"The first goal goes in and Everton crumble and they were defensively poor for the second. Sunderland couldn't do any more. It was a brilliant half - they have done everything Sam Allardyce required from them."

Sunderland are nearly there. They have a firm hold on this game thanks to two defenders - Van Aanholt and Kone.

Norwich and Newcastle are hanging on to the Premier League by a fingertip.

To be honest, if Robles had managed to get in the way of that Kone shot it would probably have killed him. 

Joy unbound now in Sunderland. Newcastle and Norwich are staring into the abyss. Just to make this situation even worse for Newcastle, the scorer of the first goal, Van Aanholt, used to play for them. He was on loan in 2010 when United were in the Championship. Just more salt to pour in the wound.

Kevin Kilbane
Ex-Everton winger on BBC Radio 5 live

"It's poor defending from Everton, they didn't deal with the second ball. It is good technique by Kone because the ball is coming over his shoulder."

You have to wonder where Robles was going there? He moved from the exact spot that the ball went in. But if that was an error then his next act is the exact opposite. Another Sunderland free-kick is swung in and glanced towards goal by the head of Jermain Defoe. It is destined for the goal until Robles pulls out a superb, one-handed diving save.

Now Sunderland have a chance. Defoe is fouled by Funes Mori near the edge of the box for a dangerous free-kick. Wahbi Khazri fancies it...