Steven Fletcher scored twice to give Sunderland a 3-1 win over Stoke on Saturday for their first Premier League victory of the season.
Fletcher made it 2-1 in the 23rd minute and then put the result beyond doubt in the 79th as Sunderland ended a run of five draws in six games and joined Stoke on eight points from seven rounds.
Connor Wickham gave the hosts the lead with a close-range header in the fourth minute, only for Charlie Adam to equalise in the 15th.
Fletcher was handed his first start since August and headed in a cross from Jordi Gomez for his first goal, before slotting home a pass from Wickham for the third after a counterattack.
In another match, Substitute Ross Wallace curled in a 20-yard free kick in injury time for Burnley to leave Leicester with a 2-2 draw.
Leicester went ahead twice in the first half through Riyad Mahrez and Jeff Schlupp, who were brought in after the 2-0 loss to Crystal Palace last week.
But Burnley answered each time. Burnley remained winless at the bottom of the standings, but they ended a goal drought that lasted 47 days, and almost 11 hours of game action.
Five minutes into injury time, Burnley's Lukas Jutkiewicz was fouled by Matty James, and Wallace stepped up to fire into the top corner.
Mohammed Diame's third goal in four matches and Nikica Jelavic's fourth of the season handed Hull their first win since the opening day of the season, beating a lackluster Crystal Palace 2-0.
Senegal midfielder Diame headed home Andy Robertson's cross on the hour mark at KC Stadium, before Jelavic secured the points with a clinical counter-attack in the 89th minute.
Steve Bruce's side had conceded 10 goals in its previous four league matches, and another three in the League Cup loss at West Brom, prompting a return to last season's preferred 3-5-2.
Hull provisionally jumped from 16th to eighth with nine points from seven matches, one point more than Palace.
Papiss Cisse eased some of the pressure on Newcastle manager Alan Pardew after his second brace of the season secured a precious Premier League point as the Magpies drew 2-2 at Swansea.
Newcastle remained in the relegation zone with four points from seven games, while Swansea are provisionally fourth.
Cisse was starting for the first time since fracturing a patella in April and he repeated his two-goal show against Hull last month when he came on as a substitute to stun Garry Monk's side at the Liberty Stadium.
Swansea twice took the lead through Wilfried Bony and Wayne Routledge, but Senegal striker Cisse took advantage of some slack home marking to score Newcastle's first away goals in the top flight since March 1.
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