Swansea relieved the pressure on under-pressure manager Bob Bradley with an emphatic 3-0 home victory over fellow strugglers Sunderland.
Bradley had come into the Premier League basement clash under severe scrutiny with only one win in his seven games in charge and Swansea at the foot of the table.
But the Swans surged to their biggest win of the season with a second-half penalty from Gylfi Sigurdsson and, for the second successive home game, a Fernando Llorente double.
The win not only takes Swansea off the bottom, but moves them up three places outside the relegation zone.