 On 2 May, again from 12 yards, he scored once in each half as the "Black Cats" defeated Southampton 2–1 at the Stadium of Light.The following week, his shot was deflected in by Danny Graham, to give the latter his first Sunderland goal, in a 2–0 away success over Everton; still in that month, he was ruled out for the last three games of the season with a fractured kneecap.In the last minutes of the 2016 winter transfer window, after making only six appearances in the first half of the season, Gómez was loaned to Championship club Blackburn Rovers until June.