Summary

  • Lukaku scores two close-range headers

  • Completes hat-trick with low strike

  • First goal ends run of 1,139 mins without competitive goal

  • First hat-trick of Premier League season

  • Result moves Everton third in table

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance

  1. Transfer deadline dealings

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    We could see a few debutants tonight.

    David Moyes was a busy man on transfer deadline day, breaking the club's transfer record to sign midfielder Didier Ndong for £13.6m.

    You know - Didier Ndong? Played for Lorient in France. No?

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    That there is Didier Ndong. Great hair

    Most people were none the wiser, but then again how many people had heard of N'Golo Kante 15 months ago? He could be just what Sunderland need.

    They also signed goalkeeper Mika and the aforementioned Victor Anichebe while loaning Manchester City's highly-rated defender Jason Denayer.

  2. Sunderland v Everton (20:00 BST)

    Sunderland manager David Moyes: "I see something similar between the clubs, but I don't want to be banging the drum every day saying 'Everton this, Everton that'.

    "I'm only using it as an example to say if we can follow that route, we will not be far away. That will come from getting the recruitment right, and getting an understanding of the players we need to bring to the club.

    "I'm hoping we can get that over the coming windows."

  3. 11 years a Blue

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    David Moyes was in charge of Everton for 427 Premier League games between 2002 and 2013 (P427 W173 D123 L131).

    This is the third longest spell of any manager in the Premier League era (behind Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United and Arsene Wenger at Arsenal).

  4. Familiar faces...

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    Tuesday, 13 March, 2012.

    A Merseyside derby made memorable by a Steven Gerrard hat-trick at Anfield.

    But for fans of statistical quirks and odd footballing trivia it was also the last time that a team containing Steven Pienaar, Victor Anichebe and Jack Rodwell made it out onto the hallowed turf.

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    That trio - managed by David Moyes - are now back together as Moyes looks to build a team to drag Sunderland away from trouble.

    Is rebuilding the Everton line-up of 2012 the answer? And if so where was the phone call to Tony Hibbert or Denis Stracqualursi, an already forgotten striker who started on that March night?

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    Can David Moyes bring the good times back to Sunderland?

    Moyes has already made big changes in a short space of time. Tonight he gets a glimpse of whether he is heading in the right direction, and maybe also a glimpse of whether Everton have made strides since he left three years ago.

    Anichebe or Lukaku? Pienaar or Bolasie? Rodwell or Barkley?

    Home or away?

    Time to decide.