As Chelsea, Manchester United and Crystal Palace triumphed, Manchester City, Tottenham and Newcastle went down in the explosive English Premiership League.
Chelsea extended their lead at the top of the English Premier League to three points as Reece James scored twice in a 3-0 win at Newcastle on Saturday, October 30 while Liverpool and Manchester City stumbled at home.
Chelsea were without the injured Romelu Lukaku, Timo Werner and Mason Mount, but the European champions were just too much for Newcastle.
Liverpool blew at 2-0 lead at Anfield as Brighton battled back to earn a deserved 2-2 draw while Pep Guardiola’s 10 men were beaten 2-0 by Crystal Palace at the Etihad.
Reece James produced two stunning finishes from right wing-back before Jorginho’s penalty rounded off the scoring.
On Saturday, October 30, Manchester United produced the perfect response by claiming a convincing 3-0 win over Tottenham, courtesy of goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, Edinson Cavani and Marcus Rashford.
This came after the terrible 5-0 loss to Liverpool last week that led to strong calls for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to be sacked.
After a cagey opening 10 minutes to the game, Manchester United pushed ahead in the first-half after a move of real quality saw Bruno Fernandes feed Cristiano with a perfect pass and the Portuguese produced the perfect volleyed finish from a very tight angle.
Spurs struggled, and failed to create chances throughout the contest with goalkeeper David De Gea hardly troubled as United kept their first clean sheet in months.
In the second half, Cristiano was again involved as the lead was doubled – squeezing a pass through to strike-partner Edinson Cavani, who dinked the ball over the onrushing Hugo Lloris.
The home support grew restless as the second-half wore on and their misery was confirmed when Marcus Rashford added a late third goal sending the away fans into rapturous celebrations.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah’s scoring streak came to an end at 10 games, even though he gave the pass that led to Jordan Henderson’s goal.
Sadio Mane doubled Liverpool’s advantage with a back post header before the Senegalese had another goal ruled out for handball after he caught Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez in possession.
The Seagulls scored before half-time when Enock Mwepu’s cross flew over the stranded Alisson Becker.
Then Brighton snatched a point after the break when Leandro Trossard rounded off a brilliant team move 25 minutes from time.
Manchester City’s first home defeat of the season rounded off a perfect day for Chelsea in the title race as Wilfried Zaha punished slack defending from Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte to fire into the far corner after six minutes.
Laporte was then sent off for pulling down Zaha as the last man during the first-half stoppage time.
The 10-men were then caught out two minutes from time when Connor Gallagher smashed high past Ederson.
