Spurs go top, Chelsea keep pace, United move above City

Tottenham Hotspur moved high of the Premier League after a formidable 2-Zero victory over Manchester City whereas Chelsea beat Newcastle United and Manchester United secured their first house win of the marketing campaign on Saturday.

Jose Mourinho’s Spurs, unbeaten of their final eight video games, have 20 factors from 9 matches whereas Frank Lampard’s Chelsea are on 18 factors after their 2-Zero win at Newcastle.

Third-placed Leicester City (18 factors) are at fourth-placed Liverpool (17 factors) on Sunday and would return to the highest with a win at Anfield.

Pep Guardiola’s City slipped to 11th with United’s victory transferring them above their native rivals to ninth.

Spurs now absolutely appear to be a Mourinho crew, strong on the again, hard-working in midfield and lethal on the break and that was sufficient to beat a City crew who’ve managed simply 10 targets in 9 video games.

Son Heung-min’s prolific kind continued, the South Korean opening the scoring within the fifth minute along with his ninth purpose of the season.

A fantastically weighted go from Tanguy Ndombele picked out Son’s completely timed run and the striker saved his cool to slide the ball by the legs of the advancing Ederson.

Harry Kane for Spurs and Aymeric Laporte for City each had targets disallowed earlier than substitute Giovani lo Celso settled the match simply 35 seconds after coming off the bench.

While Mourinho could have been delighted to have put one over on Guardiola, who he jousted with throughout his time in Spain when he coached Real Madrid and his rival was in command of Barcelona, he wasn’t getting carried away by the desk.

“We are not fighting for the title, we are just fighting to win every match,” stated the Portuguese coach.

THIRD WIN

At St James’ Park an personal purpose by Federico Fernandez and Tammy Abraham’s second-half effort secured a 3rd straight win for Chelsea.

The Blues took the lead within the 10th minute when Fernandez, below stress from Ben Chilwell, turned in Mason Mount’s cross.

Isaac Hayden wasted an incredible probability to equalise on the hour however Timo Werner burst by on purpose earlier than passing to Abraham to double Chelsea’s lead.

“We put the game away with a professional performance,” Lampard stated. “The result is key because the Premier League is tough and relentless.”

A twice-taken penalty from Bruno Fernandes gave United a 1-Zero win over West Bromwich Albion, their first Premier League win at Old Trafford this season.

Fernandes’s first effort was saved by West Brom keeper Sam Johnstone however the referee ordered the kick be re-taken after ruling the keeper had come off his line and the Portuguese midfielder made no mistake with the second try.

Winless West Brom’s frustration was doubled by the truth that the penalty got here eight minutes after that they had a spot-kick award overturned after evaluation.

Brighton & Hove Albion received at Aston Villa for the primary time with an enthralling 2-1 victory.

Solly March grabbed the winner with a stunning end after Ezri Konsa’s equaliser had cancelled out Danny Welbeck’s first purpose for Brighton, a intelligent chip.

There was late drama, nevertheless, when Brighton full again Tariq Lamptey was despatched off for a second yellow card in stoppage time and Villa had a penalty overturned after the referee rescinded his resolution having seen the monitor.