LIVERPOOL: Andriy Yarmolenko scored twice on his first start for West Ham as they climbed off the foot of the English Premier League table with a 3-1 win away to Everton on Sunday.
It was the Hammers' first league win under manager Manuel Pellegrini, whose four previous top-flight games in charge of the east London club at the start of this season had all ended in defeat.
In the other Sunday match, at Molineux, Wolverhampton Wanderers inflicted a fourth successive defeat on Burnley with a 1-0 victory, leaving the visitors second bottom of the Premier League after their worst start to a top-flight season in 89 years. (Details below)
PREMIER LEAGUE
Sunday's results
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Burnley
Everton 1-3 West Ham United
Saturday's Results
Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Liverpool
AFC Bournemouth 4-2 Leicester City
Chelsea 4-2 Cardiff City
Huddersfield Town 0-2 Crystal Palace
Manchester City 3-2 Fulham
Newcastle United 1-2 Arsenal
Watford 1-2 Manchester United
The Hammers' victory at Goodison Park catapulted West Ham out of the bottom three.
Chilean boss Pellegrini, celebrating his 65th birthday on Sunday, had spent £100 million ($129 million) bringing nine new signings to the London Stadium in the close season.
But such had been the Hammers' poor start to the new campaign that questions were already being asked about the former Manchester City manager's long-term job prospects.
"It's easy to say we were going to change, but I was absolutely convinced this is the way," Pellegrini, who said his birthday was the "last thing" on his mind, told Sky Sports.
"We score goals and always try to continue scoring goals. I saw the players working every day of the week...I am convinced and the players are convinced."
Ukrainian forward Yarmolenko, one of Pellegrini's new signings, gave his manager some breathing space on Merseyside with a double strike that put the visitors 2-0 up just after the half-hour mark.
Gylfi Sigurdsson pulled a goal back in first-half stoppage time before Marko Arnautovic restored West Ham's two-goal lead in the 61st minute as Everton suffered their first defeat under manager Marco Silva.
"We didn't play with enough quality to win the match," Silva told the BBC. "It's a tough result for us."
It took West Ham just 11 minutes to break the deadlock when one long ball out of defence proved too much for Everton to handle.
Arnautovic unselfishly squared the ball to Yarmolenko, who fired home from close range.
And the away fans had a second goal to celebrate when Yarmolenko doubled the Hammers' lead in the 31st minute.
Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford's poor pass gifted West Ham possession in a dangerous area and Yarmolenko, cutting in off the right flank, beat two defenders before curling a left-footed shot into the top corner from the edge of the box.
But just when it seemed West Ham would enjoy a 2-0 lead at the break, Everton gave themselves a lifeline when Sigurdsson headed powerfully home from an excellent cross by full-back Jonjoe Kenny.
Everton squandered several chances to equalise and were made to pay when Pedro Obiang drove into their box and slipped the ball sideways to Arnautovic, who toe-poked a shot past the diving Pickford.
AT MOLINEUX, after Wolves missed several chances in the first half, Raul Jimenez pounced in the 61st minute to break the deadlock with his second goal of the season.
Burnley pressed for a leveller, but lacked any real threat in attack, mustering just two tame shots on target in the entire match.
Wolves continue to look at home in the top flight and sit in the top half of the table with eight points from five games, while Burnley, who finished seventh last season, have a solitary point.
"I am very, very satisfied," Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo said. "If there is a 'but', we could be more clinical. But if we can continue to make this many chances, it makes me very proud."
Wolves dominated for large swathes of the first half, but were kept at bay by Burnley keeper Joe Hart, who made three smart saves in quick succession at the end of the opening period.
After the break, Jimenez should have opened the scoring from just inside the box, but blazed over with the goal at his mercy.
He made amends soon after, however, darting to the near post to meet a low Matt Doherty cross before guiding the ball into the far corner.
Wolves should have made the victory more comfortable, having fired 30 shots at Hart's goal -- the most they have managed in a single match in Premier League history -- but had to make do with Jimenez's solitary strike.
"We took a bit of a battering," Hart said. "Wolves were really on it. We have a lot more to come and a lot more to do. It is what it is so we need to look at ourselves in the mirror and keep going."