Manchester City showed few signs of slowing as they recorded another win at Arsenal on Sunday.
The runaway Premier League leaders remain 10 points clear of both Manchester United and Leicester City, who each enjoyed victories of their own.
West Ham complete the top four, meanwhile, after a long-awaited triumph for manager David Moyes.
We start at the London Stadium in recapping the best of Sunday s action with the help of Opta data.
West Ham 2-1 Tottenham: Moyes ends miserable run against Mourinho
Moyes finally got the measure of Jose Mourinho as West Ham climbed into the top four with a 2-1 home win against Tottenham.
4 West Ham will spend a night within the top four places in a top-flight campaign after at least 25 matches have been played for the first time since 1985-86 finishing third that season. Orchestra.
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This was Moyes first victory over Mourinho in 16 attempts in all competitions, halting his worst winless record against any one coach.
Michail Antonio s fifth Premier League goal against Spurs and 42nd in total all of which have come from inside the box opened the scoring early on, before another swift strike in the second half took the game away from Tottenham.
Scorer Jesse Lingard, whose best spell of his United career came under Mourinho, has netted as many goals (three) for Moyes in four league games on loan at West Ham as he did in 36 appearances for Red Devils manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Although Lucas Moura s header halved the deficit, Mourinho has now suffered 15 defeats and picked up only 81 points from his first 50 league games as Tottenham coach the worst such returns of his career.
Aston Villa 1-2 Leicester City: More Villa Park joy for Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers maintained his 100 per cent winning record away to Aston Villa as Leicester won 2-1 at Villa Park.
Rodgers has won all six of his Premier League games at Villa Park as manager, the past two with Leicester ensuring the Foxes have enjoyed back-to-back away top-flight wins against Villa for the first time since October 1960.
James Maddison s eighth Premier League goal of the season broke the deadlock and made this his best scoring campaign in the top tier, before Harvey Barnes added his 13th in all competitions in 2020-21 second only to Jamie Vardy (14) among Leicester players.
Bertrand Traore got a goal back and has now been involved in eight in the league for Villa since his debut, but the absent Jack Grealish, the only man at the club this season to better that tally (10), was sorely missed.
0.9 Under Dean Smith, Aston Villa have averaged 1.5 points-per-game in league competition when Jack Grealish has featured compared to 0.9 points-per-game without him, losing all three Premier League matches without the Englishman since the start of last season. Centrepiece.
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Arsenal 0-1 Manchester City: Records stacking up for Pep s class of 2021
City equalled their own record for consecutive away wins across all competitions by a team from England s top flight, landing a 1-0 success at Arsenal.
An 11th straight victory on the road tying their 2017 run also made City the first visiting team to ever enjoy four league wins in a row at Arsenal without conceding.
In all, Arsenal have lost eight league matches on the bounce to City, tying Leeds United s benchmark streak against the Gunners from 1973 to 1976, and a familiar foe proved their undoing.
Raheem Sterling has scored in three consecutive league games at Emirates Stadium and no player in the division has more than his 20 on the road since the start of last season.
City stood firm at the other end with a 15th league clean sheet of the campaign and more achievements might be on the horizon, as a 25th game without defeat across all competitions takes them closer to their best run under Pep Guardiola of 28 in 2017.
Manchester United 3-1 Newcastle United: Red Devils dominate Magpies again
United s dominant home record against Newcastle United only briefly looked at risk as they won 3-1 in Sunday s final match.
Newcastle have won on just one of their past 36 league visits to Old Trafford, where Marcus Rashford s 40th goal in all competitions since the start of last season broke the deadlock his tally is only bettered in that time by Mohamed Salah (47), Harry Kane (45) and Sterling (44).
Allan Saint-Maximin soon equalised his fifth goal involvement of the campaign but Dan James restored the home advantage from Bruno Fernandes pass.
5 Dan James has scored five goals in 13 games for Manchester United this season, one more than he managed in 46 games across all competitions last season. Contribution.
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Fernandes secured the points from the penalty spot and now has 15 goals and 10 assists in the Premier League this season, the third player to reach double figures in both goals and assists in Europe s top five leagues (also Kane and Thomas Muller).
United, who have just one defeat in 19 in the league, have now scored 53 times in 25 league matches, their best return at this stage of a season since their title-winning 2012-13 campaign (60).
