Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce believes his side paid the price for chasing three points at Goodison Park on Sunday.

The Black Cats clawed their way back into the game from a two-goal deficit to level the score at the start of the second half, but ended up losing the game 6-2.

"We went to go and get three points," Allardyce told Sky Sports. "When we decided we thought we could get three we opened the game right up and let Everton hit us on the counter-attack.

"When you do that you've got to score the third and not them. We had chances to do it but didn't, and that played right into Everton's hands.

"We stopped defending when we didn't have the ball and we allowed Everton three goals from counter-attacks where they played through us, around us and in behind us.

"We had no-one there to defend correctly after getting back to 2-2. That was something I didn't think they should have done."