It was another stonking day of Premier League action, with shenanagins at both ends of the table.
It was more Pardiola than Guardiola as Crystal Palace managed to arrest their awful run and Mr Conte came out on top in the mouth-watering early fixture.
At the other end, David Moyes’s Sunderland moved off the bottom of the table with a win over Leicester, with Swansea taking last place after their thrashing by Spurs.
Here’s how the action all turned out and some very important stuff you may have missed.
Results
Man City 1 – 3 Chelsea
Sunderland 2 – 1 Leicester
Tottenham 5 – 0 Swansea
Stoke 2 – 0 Burnley
Crystal Palace 3 – 0 Southampton
West Brom 3 – 1 Watford
Miss of the day
Kevin De Bruyne, who whipped and fizzed incredible balls into the box all day, thundered a shot against the crossbar from five yards out with the goal gaping.
Thank you De Bruyne for missing the opening net. It was Jose that sold you not Chelsea..
— TeamChelsea (@IconicLampard) December 3, 2016
It would have put City 2-0 up and in control of the match. But Conte’s clinical counter-attackers buried three chances through Costa, Willian and Hazard, extending their winning run in the league to eight.
Kung-Fu kick of the day
It just wasn’t Sergio’s day, and he took out his frustration at missing a string of chances with a vicious kick against Sideshow Bob.
Got to hurt more than stepping on a rake.
It led to an ugly injury-time mass brawl which saw Fernandinho and Aguero receive red cards.
Birthday boy of the day
There was a striker, a Belgian striker, called Christian Benteke. The big man scored a brace on his most special day of the year to ease the pressure on boss Pardew.
FULL-TIME Palace 3-0 Southampton. Birthday boy Benteke gets two and Tomkins also finds the net to help Palace secure the 3 points #CRYSOU pic.twitter.com/YEJbGtakcG
— Premier League (@premierleague) December 3, 2016
Self-nutmeg of the day
Fraser Forster had an absolute shocker.
Going to clear the ball with his left foot, it hit off his right then rolled through his legs, sitting invitingly for Mr Benteke to stroke it into the empty net.
He’s got a bad touch for a big man.
Fraser Forster turns into an Oliver Kahn-Lev Yashin hybrid every time he plays us then nutmegs himself on his own goalline in the next game.
— Paddy (@VieiraPaddy) December 3, 2016
Thrashing of the day
Spurs spurrsed things up a bit at White Hart Lane with a resounding 5-0 win over Swansea, with braces from Kane and Eriksen.
8 - Christian Eriksen has had a hand in eight goals in six appearances vs Swansea in the Premier League (four goals, four assists). Clipped.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 3, 2016
There was also a delicious Michelin-star meal of a half-volley goal by Son Heung-Min.
Goals scored today vs. Swansea: 5
— Spurs Stat Man (@SpursStatMan) December 3, 2016
Goals scored in all of November: 6
Goals scored in all of October: 5
Record of the day
Things are going terribly for defending champions Leicester in the league and they fell to another defeat against Sunderland.
Still, it wasn’t all bad as Okazaki became the all-time leading Japanese scorer in the league.
7 - Shinji Okazaki is now the outright top Japanese @premierleague scorer of all-time with 7 goals, surpassing Shinji Kagawa (6). Samurai. pic.twitter.com/DcgNXIkhON
— OptaJiro (@OptaJiro) December 3, 2016
