Sunderland keep European hopes alive with comeback winpublished at 17:04 BST
17:04 BST
Everton 1-3 Sunderland
Michael Emons
BBC Sport at Hill Dickinson Stadium
Sunderland kept alive their hopes of playing in major European competition for the first time since the 1970s as they came from behind to beat Everton.
The Black Cats, who won promotion last season via the play-off final at Wembley, played a few games in the Uefa Cup Winners’ Cup in 1973-74, but have been without major European football for 42 years.
But they go into next Sunday’s final day of the campaign still in with a chance of finishing as high as seventh.
Merlin Rohl put Everton ahead at the end of the first half, but Sunderland fought back with second-half goals from Brian Brobbey, Enzo le Fee and Wilson Isidor to move above the Toffees, whose own European hopes are severely hampered.