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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 20667916" data-attributes="member: 158020">Sunderland 0-3 Everton: Lukaku hat-trick downs Black Cats <img src="http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/goal_uk/85/40/hd-romelu-lukaku-everton_z8tvhg5p4e7v1lahnqkd1fpxe.jpg?t=538663783&w=620&h=430" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Romelu Lukaku quashed his goalscoring drought in fine fashion as he scored a hat-trick to hand Everton a 3-0 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Jermain Defoe spurned a clear opening for the home side early in the first half, but chances were few and far between in an end-to-end opening period before Lukaku took centre stage on Monday. The striker had gone 1,139 competitive minutes without a club goal before finding the back of the net three times inside 11 second-half minutes to maintain the Toffees' unbeaten start to the season and inflict more misery on former boss David Moyes. Jordan Pickford denied Yannick Bolasie a fourth but Everton's visiting fans were in full voice - some of them targeting Moyes with chants of 'you're getting sacked in the morning' - as their side took revenge for a 3-0 reverse on the same ground last season. Sunderland captain Defoe wasted the best chance of a balanced opening half-hour, slicing the ball over the crossbar from just 12 yards after beating Everton's offside trap. Lukaku's glancing header forced Pickford into a fine one-handed stop, before Ashley Williams nodded narrowly wide from Kevin Mirallas' corner. Everton looked the more likely to open the deadlock, with Bolasie's movement causing Sunderland some problems, but Maarten Stekelenburg had to be alert to stop Lynden Gooch's cross from looping into the far corner. Koeman replaced the ineffective Ross Barkley with Gerard Deulofeu at half-time and his run allowed Bolasie the chance to test Pickford from distance, before Kone headed straight at Stekelenburg from a corner.But Lukaku, who had been isolated too often in the first half, at last ended his long wait for a league goal on the hour mark.  Deulofeu fed Idrissa Gueye on the counter-attack, and the midfielder's pinpoint clipped cross from the right was nodded into Pickford's bottom-right corner by the Belgium marksman, who was unmarked just six yards from goal. Lukaku came within inches of a second just three minutes later, rattling the crossbar on the turn inside the area, but he had better luck with 68 minutes played as Sunderland's defence made it all too easy for him. Bolasie drove to the byline down the Everton left and looped a cross towards the far post, where Lukaku arrived unmarked once again to head in from point-blank range. And the former Chelsea man added a stylish third three minutes later, racing onto Mirallas' first-time through ball between a static Sunderland defence before shooting left-footed beyond Pickford. Pickford saved low to his right from Bolasie's drive and Lukaku blasted a presentable opening over the bar, but the damage to a Sunderland side desperately short on confidence had already been done. Everton have moved up to third following their third successive league win under Ronald Koeman, while Sunderland are currently 19th under Moyes after suffering a third defeat in four games under the Scot.</blockquote>

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