Juan Mata ...superb all-round display from the Spaniard. Source: AFP
A dynamic midfield presence paves the way for Chelsea's big win over Tottenham Hotspur at the top of the Barclays Premier League.
Here's your one-stop shop reviewing the weekend action, packed with comprehensive video highlights, plus analysis from each match.
The game was won by a superb Juan Mata display. While Eden Hazard deservedly gained all the plaudits during the opening weeks of the season, Mata's influence - and the goals that have come with it - has taken Chelsea to the top of the league.
Intelligent enough to spot Spurs' weaknesses in defence and gifted enough to take advantage, the little maestro was in unstoppable form and could well have scored three.
Indeed, when Andre Villas-Boas reflects on this game, he'll realise that the gap between Chelsea and Spurs can be found in midfield. Even without Mata, Chelsea can call on Hazard and the hard-working Oscar, whereas without Gareth Bale, Spurs clearly lose much of their attacking potency.
Chelsea might look to lack width on paper, but they stretched Spurs from side to side to gain a North London double, having previously beaten Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
The last time they did that, Chelsea went on to win the league, and on this performance a repeat is very much a possibility.
Fulham boss Martin Jol openly admitted after the match he was "relieved" to secure all three points against Villa because in truth, a point would have been a fair result.
After a pretty uneventful first half, Jol cleverly saw the opportunity to push his fullbacks Sascha Riether and John Arne Riise further forward.
And that seemed to do the trick as the visitors found themselves pushed back and were soon struggling to cope.
The Cottagers' home form has been exceptional with five wins from their last six games now and they proved in this encounter that they don't have to play well to win matches.
Only 12 months ago, these sides were seen as pretty even, but how times have changed, with Villa heading down the table and Fulham looking upwards.
Liverpool may have picked up their first home win of the season, but again it was clear for all to see they need to bring in a striker in January.
The Reds are short of options in attack with Luis Suarez the only recognised striker in the side.
Liverpool were guilty, as they have been for most of the campaign, of wasting opportunity after opportunity to put Reading to the sword.
Reading will be thinking if only they had started the game like they finished it.
Manchester United 4 Stoke City 2
Having described the pre-international break victory over Newcastle United as Manchester United's finest performance of the season, Sir Alex Ferguson will have been irritated to see his side revert to bad habits and concede the opening goal of the game.
The defence looked shaky throughout but goalkeeper David de Gea, challenged to stand up to Stoke's aerial threat, again demonstrated his shot-stopping ability with a couple of superb saves, and perhaps it is a risk worth taking for Ferguson to be so open when his attacking players can be so devastating.
The United manager certainly seems to have figured out a way of accommodating Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and Danny Welbeck in the same team, with the three forward men showing great movement and linking up well as they all scored.
It could have been worse for the Potters as there were periods when United looked like running riot and notching a cricket score, or at least a tennis score, but there were still plenty of positives for Tony Pulis to take from the game.
Swansea City 2 Wigan Athletic 1
The first half showed that both sides were out of form. Scrappy, bitty and without meaningful opportunities on goal.
Swansea had more of the ball and forced a few corners, and Wigan looked happy to frustrate.
In the second half the game changed markedly. Swansea began to piece the ball together in the attacking third, with Michu, Ki Sung-yueng and Wayne Routledge in particular causing a threat, Routledge the man of the match.
The main talking point again for Wigan was a refereeing decision. Arouna Kone was level when he headed home Jean Beausejour's cross, but was flagged offside. Roberto Martinez was fairly philosophical, but you have to feel sorry for the manager.
West Bromwich Albion 1 Manchester City 2
WBA have had a fine start to the season and performed admirably again against City, but Steve Clarke may be rueing a missed opportunity to take three points from the champions.
The dismissal of James Milner with only a quarter of the game played presented the Baggies with a real opportunity to climb above their opponents.
For the next half of the match, however, Clarke's side failed to seize their numerical opportunity and appeared content to stick with a point.
It was only when Peter Odemwingie replaced Graham Dorrans that the hosts had a go.
For City, this was the win of champions and, for that, Roberto Mancini must take credit. The boss wasted little time in introducing Dzeko after going behind, but held off the trigger when Mario Balotelli was acting the fool.
West Ham United 4 Southampton 1
When you have the height and build Andy Carroll possesses, you are always likely to be the centre of attention and so it proved against the struggling Saints.
Credit Carroll for keeping his temper - compare and contrast with Mario Balotelli when defenders try to get too close to him.
Carroll was a happy man when defender Jos Hooiveld eventually went into the book, but by then he had done his job in terms of his hold-up play.
He is yet to open his account for West Ham, but no-one seemed too concerned, least of all manager Sam Allardyce.
Carroll would love to be in the goals right now, but he seems to have latched on to Allardyce's liking for all-round effort from all his players, whatever their stated trade.
Arsene Wenger had spoken optimistically in the build-up to the game about how October could be the start of the "moment of truth" for his team as he targeted maximum points from games against Norwich and QPR.
Instead he saw his side beaten in the Premier League for the second time in three games with old problems emerging again.
Goalkeeper Vito Mannone was culpable for the only goal of the game at Carrow Road - spilling Alexander Tettey's effort into the path of Grant Holt.
At the other end of the pitch there was plenty of possession but no cutting edge as Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud struggled to shake off their markers.
For Norwich this was much more like it and their high tempo approach thoroughly merited all three points.
Sunderland 1 Newcastle United 1
Since the start of 2010/2011, Cheick Tiote has been yellow carded 27 times in 55 Premier League appearances.
He has the worst disciplinary record in that period and his latest red card epitomised the problems with his game.
Sunderland managed only one shot on target against Newcastle, which took their tally for the league season to date to just 12.
Other than Steven Fletcher, they again looked completely toothless.
Fabricio Coloccini was a class act of composure for Newcastle on his return to the starting XI after a hamstring injury.
Some had predicted would be the day that QPR's summer cascade of signings all clicked together and recorded their first win of the season. Phil Jagielka wasn't having any of that.
In the end, neither Everton or QPR will be too disappointed with their 1-1 draw, especially the Toffees. In Jagielka and Sylvain Distin, heroics were performed at Loftus Road as Everton battled valiantly for nearly 30 minutes with 10 men.
In the process, they prevented QPR's waves of late pressure having any effect, and the Hoops still remain winless with eight games of the season gone.
This was, though, a much improved performance from Mark Hughes's side.
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