Anichebe adamant Moyes’ system starting to work at Sunderland

David Moyes has been much-maligned in his short spell as Sunderland manager but Victor Anichebe believes Saturday’s victory over Bournemouth could be a turning point.

Sunderland had failed to win a Premier League game in ten attempts since Moyes took over in the summer but it was 11th-time lucky as they downed the Cherries 2-1.

Dan Gosling opened the scoring for Bournemouth before Anichebe’s first league goal in 465 days levelled proceedings but Steven Pienaar was sent off for two yellow cards with half an hour left.

Yet the Black Cats improbably scored the winner despite their numerical disadvantage when Jermain Defoe kept his cool from the penalty spot after Adam Smith fouled Anichebe.

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And the 28-year-old claims it is Moyes who deserves the plaudits for proving his critics wrong.

“Credit to the manager – he has a lot of pressure on him even though it’s us going out there on the pitch to play,” said Anichebe.

“He’s a really good manager but he needs time to put in what he wants us to do.

“You could see signs of that against Bournemouth – it was what we used to do back at Everton, press and show a lot of resilience.

“Hard work and digging deep is the most important thing. It’s the foundation of everything and that’s what he’s trying to instil into us.

“We’ve been putting in some good performances and a result has been coming. We got a little bit of luck that we haven’t had over the past few weeks and we got the three points.”