Victor Anichebe gamble pays off for David Moyes as the forgotten striker earns Sunderland a much-needed win

Daily Mail | November 7, 2016

In Victor Anichebe, David Moyes might have found the most unlikely source to power Sunderland’s Premier League life support.

The striker with a profligate goal record, unwanted by any other club and a last-resort buy for the Black Cats, proved to be the battering ram behind their first Premier League win on Saturday.

Anichebe shrugged off Simon Francis to hammer in an unstoppable equaliser at Bournemouth and then won the penalty for Jermain Defoe’s winner — all achieved with a cracked rib suffered in the first half.

Victor Anichebe and Jermain Defoe scored the goals as Sunderland beat Bournemouth

Anichebe is mobbed by a fan after Sunderland earned their first win of the season

Anichebe won the penalty, which Defoe dispatched to ensure Sunderland won three points

Moyes rolled the dice on the 28-year-old, taking on a free agent he saw something in at Everton despite a record of just 24 goals in 189 Premier League appearances to date.