Source: Sky Sports
Manchester city outclassed their counterpart Tottenham Hospur with a huge victory of 5 goals to 1. The scorers include Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure, Edin Dzeko, Stevan Jovetic and Vincent Kompany as they moved to the top spot of the EPL table.
Man of the match, David Silva was much Involved Manchester City's best work and unfortunate not to get on the scoresheet.
Sergio Aguero's opener in the goal scoring saw him picked out brilliantly by Silva and finish sublimely. Will be a big miss if he has another knock.
Save of the match: Hugo Lloris spread himself really well to claw a first-half header from Aguero to safety.
Moment of the match: The decision to dismiss Danny Rose turned the momentum of the tie firmly in Manchester City's favour.
Talking point: Are City now THE side to beat in the Premier League title race? Can Tottenham force their way into the top four?
Aguero could have had four by the 25th-minute mark as, sandwiched either side of his opener, the Argentine cracked one effort off the woodwork, saw a powerful header produce a sprawling one-handed save from Hugo Lloris and another hacked off the line by Rose.
When he was able to find the back of the net, he did so in style - latching onto a perfectly-weighted pass from David Silva to nonchalantly dink the ball over Lloris and send it spinning inside the post.
Spurs thought they had found a leveller nine minutes before half-time, but the flag was raised as Michael Dawson turned home a fizzed free-kick from Christian Eriksen.
Worryingly for City, Aguero hobbled off before the interval and could be set for another spell on the sidelines, but they wrapped up the points within eight minutes of the re-start.
Rose appeared to get a toe to the ball as he slid into a challenge on Dzeko, but he was given his marching orders by referee Andre Marriner, following consultation with his assistant, and Toure sent Lloris the wrong way from the penalty spot.
Then, three minutes later, Dzeko got in on the act himself as he finished emphatically after Silva had cracked the upright and the ball broke kindly in his direction, ensuring that an effort turned in by Capoue after a scramble from a Spurs corner counted for little in the grand scheme of things.
The final nails in Tottenham's coffin - who will be sick of the sight of City after shipping six at the Etihad Stadium in November - were hammered home by Jovetic, who saw a deflected strike hand him his first Premier League goal, and Kompany, who found himself in the right place at the right time to cushion the ball into an empty net.
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