Bournemouth lifted themselves out of the relegation zone as goals from Marcus Tavernier and Evanilson secured their first Premier League win of the season while Sunderland's struggles continued.

Both teams began the day in the relegation zone after poor starts this season on the domestic front despite winning their opening two Europa League games.

But Bournemouth boss Marco Rose got his first three points as a Premier League manager as Sunderland remain winless on the road this season and without a league victory since beating Fulham on 30 August.

Sunderland got off to a nightmare start of their own doing as defender Kevin Danso endured a disastrous17 minutes in which he helped Bournemouth to their opener and then was handed a red card for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity.

Cherries striker Evanilson bullied past the former Tottenham defender in the sixth minute before crossing for Tavernier to head home into an empty net for his fourth of the season.

Then just 11 minutes later, Evanilson's strength saw him get in front of Danso and as the defender fell, he pulled down the Bournemouth forward, who was on the edge of the area and in on goal, which saw referee Craig Pawson brandish the red card.

Black Cats goalkeeper Robin Roefs did keep them in the game with some good saves as he twice denied Brazilian winger Rayan.

Adam Smith should have scored on the rebound from one of Rayan's saved efforts but Sunderland gifted Bournemouth a second just three minutes after the restart.

Omar Alderete's back pass to Roefs was way too short which allowed Evanilson in and the Brazilian striker rounded the Sunderland keeper before sliding the ball home.

Tavernier is a tone setter for this Bournemouth team this season.

The Englishman has now scored four goals this season – he is their top scorer – and three of them have been openers in games.

This time it helped lead to a first league victory which will help build confidence in Rose's team.

They have had some positive performances but were thrashed last week at Chelsea for their third defeat of the season which meant they needed to respond here.

They were obviously helped by Sunderland's calamity defending but with games against Manchester United, Aston Villa and Leeds United to come in the Premier League with a European date with Italian giants AC Milan before that run, it was a timely victory to lift them up the table.

If Tavernier and Evanilson can keep up this form then they will be a real challenge for those teams in the next few weeks.

Is this second season syndrome or are Sunderland struggling to deal with juggling European football and domestic duties?

They have now lost both their league games on the weekend after dates on the continent in the Europa League, albeit the previous one was an eight-goal thriller against league leaders Manchester City.

They have also had some tough fixtures so far including that trip to City as they have also faced champions Arsenal and in-form Brighton.

Yet after seven games last season as a newly-promoted side they had 11 points and at the same stage this term they have just four.

They had just three shots across the whole game and never tested Bournemouth goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic while the Cherries should have scored more from their 29 attempts.

This defeat may be put down to Danso's early errors and a gift of a second goal but head coach Regis Le Bris will hope last season's impressive form soon returns as they have now lost five games already and are struggling.