Spurs end City’s unbeaten run

LONDON — Manchester City suffered its first defeat under manager Pep Guardiola as Tottenham Hotspur underlined its Premier League title credentials with a 2-0 win at White Hart Lane Sunday. 
Victory saw Spurs move to within a point of leader City. 
And later on Sunday, Arsenal — Spurs' north London rival — won 1-0 away to Burnley, thanks to Laurent Koscielny's disputed winner deep into stoppage time as Arsene Wenger's men closed to within two points of top spot. 
Meanwhile, reigning champion Leicester City was held to a goalless draw by Southampton while Manchester United endured a frustrating 1-1 draw at home to Stoke City. 
An Aleksandar Kolarov own goal and a Dele Alli strike gave Spurs victory and they could even afford for Erik Lamela to squander a second-half penalty. 
It was Guardiola's first defeat in 12 games as City manager and followed a mid-week 3-3 draw at Celtic in the Champions League that ended his side's perfect start to the season. 
"They (Tottenham) were better," said Guardiola. "We were not in the right positions, so congratulations to them.” 
Newly promoted Burnley appeared to have secured a well-deserved point at Turf Moor until, in the 93rd minute, Koscielny, stationed virtually on the goal-line, got on the end of a corner routine. 
It looked as if he might have been offside and handled the ball into the bargain, but Koscielny's goal stood despite Burnley protests. 
At Old Trafford, it looked as if substitute Anthony Martial's 69th-minute goal would give United victory over a Stoke side which started the day bottom of the table. 
But a mistake by United goalkeeper David de Gea led to Joe Allen's equalizer eight minutes from time, the point gained seeing Stoke leapfrog Sunderland. 
United wasted numerous chances, with world-record signing Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic among the offenders as Stoke goalkeeper Lee Grant, on loan from Derby County, made several fine saves. Higuain scores The race to become Serie A's top scorer this season is up and running, with Gonzalo Higuain favorite to retain his title. 
Higuain scored 36 goals last campaign for Napoli to break a 66-year-old Serie A record and could even surpass that mark after his 90 million euro ($99 million) transfer to Juventus. 
Higuain netted twice in Juventus' 3-0 win at Empoli Sunday to take his tally to six for the season, after seven rounds. Serie A leader Juventus moved four points clear of Napoli, which fell to a surprise 1-0 defeat at Atalanta. 
In other games it was: Genoa 1, Bologna 0; Cagliari 2, Crotone 1; Sampdoria 1, Palermo 1.