Evan Ferguson came off the bench to crown Brighton's 4-1 win over Premier League newcomers Luton Town on the opening weekend.
Neither Ferguson nor his Republic of Ireland teammate Chiedozie Ogbene started the clash at the Amex Stadium, but the former began the season with an action packed cameo.
He then first cracking the woodwork with a beautiful curling shot from the edge of the box. Menacing throughout his 20 minutes on the pitch, Ferguson did finish the game with a goal, sliding in to meet Pervis Estupinan's low cross at the back post to make it 4-1 deep in injury-time.
Roberto de Zerbi shrugged off the saga surrounding Moises Caicedo's transfer to canter to a 4-1 win, Solly March heading them in front in the first half.
Club record signing Pedro doubled Albion's lead, converting a 71st-minute penalty after being brought down by Hatters captain Tom Lockyer.
Cartlon Morris slotted home Luton's first top flight goal in 31 years from the penalty spot on 81st minute after a cross from substitute Jacob Brown struck Lewis Dunk's elbow.
However, Ivory Coast winger Simon Adingra, who was loaned to Belgian club Union Saint-Gilloise last season, thumped home just four minutes later after Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu inexplicably failed to clear. And Ferguson, after coming close from outside the box, rounded off the win late on.
The game also witnessed Ogbene's Premier League debut, the Irish striker introduced on 76 minutes.
Everton paid the price for a string of missed chances as their goalscoring issues were exploited by Fulham in a 1-0 defeat at Goodison Park.
A new season brought new hope for recent relegation strugglers Everton but for all the improvements Sean Dyche has made over the summer, it appears he he has not yet solved their problems in front of goal.
Substitute Bobby De Cordova-Reid struck the only goal of the game to get Marco Silva's side off to a winning start.
Everton, the Premier League’s lowest scorers last season, were again without striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Despite generating twice as many shots as the visitors, Dyche’s side were undone by one square pass across their six-yard area when Andreas Pereira beat Nathan Patterson to an Aleksandar Mitrovic’s through-ball for a 73rd-minute tap-in by Decordova-Reid.
Dominic Solanke's late equaliser denied West Ham an opening-day win as Bournemouth hit back for a 1-1 draw.
Jarrod Bowen had fired the Hammers into the lead early in the second half with a spectacular curler from the edge of the box.
But Bournemouth, playing under new boss Andoni Iraola for the first time, were good value for the point they earned when Solanke rounded Alphonse Areola with eight minutes remaining.
Odsonne Edouard's second-half goal earned Crystal Palace a 1-0 win against Sheffield United to worsen the gloom at Bramall Lane.
Edouard struck from close range four minutes after the restart to give the Eagles a deserved three points in the Premier League opener.
It was thoroughly convincing for Roy Hodgson’s men as they had two further goals disallowed, while Blades goalkeeper Wes Foderingham made a number of saves to keep his side in it.
Indeed, Hodgson’s biggest problem was a tweet from wantaway goalkeeper Vicente Guaita before the game, seemingly questioning why he was not in the team.
United’s return to the top flight after two seasons away ended with a whimpering defeat to compound a negative few weeks which saw the sale of Iliman Ndiaye and Sander Berge.
Boss Paul Heckingbottom admitted before the match that United are "nowhere near" where they need to be and that showed as they lacked any real goal threat throughout the match.
