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West Ham ended a run of three straight league defeats with a 3-1 win over luckless Sunderland at Upton Park.

Nolberto Solano made his Hammers debut as a substitute and when his shot hit a post it rebounded off £9million goalkeeper Craig Gordon and dribbled into the net.

West Ham had led with Carlton Cole's header after just nine minutes and commanded the first half, but the dangerous Kenwyne Jones headed a 52nd-minute equaliser. The home side survived when Grant Leadbitter's shot was brilliantly pushed onto a post by Robert Green and Craig Bellamy netted a third in injury time.

The Hammers made the perfect start when Cole, still deputising for injured Dean Ashton, notched his first of the season in the ninth minute.

Midfielder Hayden Mullins sent George McCartney away down the left and the full back's fine cross was looped in over Gordon by Cole's header in only his third start of the campaign.

Sunderland seemed likely to take at least a point when Jones headed them level from a Leadbitter corner seven minutes into the second half.

And Leadbitter was unlucky to see Green make a flying save from his shot, palming the ball against a post.

But the Hammers late show was the deciding factor in a match that got better the longer it went on and Solano, a free transfer from Newcastle, put his side in front with a fortuitous strike.

Then, in injury time of a match Hammers seemed to have thrown away after taking an early lead, another Luis Boa Morte run laid on a simple tap-in for the deserving Bellamy, another player proving his fitness after an international comeback for Wales following knee surgery.

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