Chelsea'a hopea of retaining the Premier League title suffered a severe blows as West Ham United upset the form book to win the London derby 1-0 on Saturday and give David Moyes his first victory since taking over as manager.
Marko Arnautovic's early goal and a gritty rearguard action by the Hammers inflicted a first league defeat in eight games on third-placed Chelsea who are 11 points behind leaders Manchester United on Sunday.
Tottenham Hotspur returned to form with a first win in five league games, trashing Stoke City 5-1 with Harry Kane scoring twice as Spurs moved back into fifth place.
Burnley are level on 28 points with Tottenham and Arsenal after beating 10-man Watford 1-0 at a wintry Turf Moor thanks to Scott Arfield's goal on the stroke of halftime.
Watford were reduced to 10 men from the 39th minute after Marvin Zeegelaar was shown a straight red for a wild tackle.
Christian Benteke missed a stoppage-time penalty that would have given Crystal Palace victory over Bournemouth but they had to be content with a 2-2 draw as Jermain Defoe scored twice for the visitors at Selhurst Park.
Swansea City climbed off the bottom, above Palace, with a 1-0 home victory over West Bromwich Albion that ended a near two-month rum without a victory.
With West Ham and Swansea winning only six points separate the bottom nine clubs with West Ham only in the bottom three because of an inferior goal difference to West Brom.
Huddersfield Town ended a four game losing streak to ease into mid-table with a 2-0 victory over fellow promoted side Brighton and Hove Albion.
In the day's late kickoff, Leicester City recovered from conceding early at Newcastle United to triumph 3-2 with their late winner coming from an own goal by Ayoze Perez.
Newcastle is two points above the drop zone while improving Leicester moved into the top eight.
Chelsea fell behind after six minutes at the London Stadium as former Stoke midfielder Arnautovic curled a shot past Thibaut Courtois for his first West Ham strike.
With Adrian in goal, rather than England keeper Joe Hart who was dropped, West Ham dug deep and restrained Chelsea, altough they did breathe a sight of relief when Alvaro Morata wasted a late chance to equalise for Antonio Contes's side.
Conte wrote off his side's title hopes.
"To talk about the little race after a defeat is a bit strange, especially if this is the fourth defeat of the season in 16 games," Conte said.
Moyes has steadied the West Ham ship and while they are still in the bottom three, last week's narrow defeat at Manchester City and victory over Chelsea offers renewed hope.
Tottenham led at halftime througj a Ryan Shawcross own goal but cut loose aftet the break with Kane's double taking his Premier League tally for the calendar year to 33, three less than the record 36 scored by Alan Shearer in 1996
Martyn Herman
Reutes/ London
Marko Arnautovic's early goal and a gritty rearguard action by the Hammers inflicted a first league defeat in eight games on third-placed Chelsea who are 11 points behind leaders Manchester United on Sunday.
Tottenham Hotspur returned to form with a first win in five league games, trashing Stoke City 5-1 with Harry Kane scoring twice as Spurs moved back into fifth place.
Burnley are level on 28 points with Tottenham and Arsenal after beating 10-man Watford 1-0 at a wintry Turf Moor thanks to Scott Arfield's goal on the stroke of halftime.
Watford were reduced to 10 men from the 39th minute after Marvin Zeegelaar was shown a straight red for a wild tackle.
Christian Benteke missed a stoppage-time penalty that would have given Crystal Palace victory over Bournemouth but they had to be content with a 2-2 draw as Jermain Defoe scored twice for the visitors at Selhurst Park.
Swansea City climbed off the bottom, above Palace, with a 1-0 home victory over West Bromwich Albion that ended a near two-month rum without a victory.
With West Ham and Swansea winning only six points separate the bottom nine clubs with West Ham only in the bottom three because of an inferior goal difference to West Brom.
Huddersfield Town ended a four game losing streak to ease into mid-table with a 2-0 victory over fellow promoted side Brighton and Hove Albion.
In the day's late kickoff, Leicester City recovered from conceding early at Newcastle United to triumph 3-2 with their late winner coming from an own goal by Ayoze Perez.
Newcastle is two points above the drop zone while improving Leicester moved into the top eight.
Chelsea fell behind after six minutes at the London Stadium as former Stoke midfielder Arnautovic curled a shot past Thibaut Courtois for his first West Ham strike.
With Adrian in goal, rather than England keeper Joe Hart who was dropped, West Ham dug deep and restrained Chelsea, altough they did breathe a sight of relief when Alvaro Morata wasted a late chance to equalise for Antonio Contes's side.
Conte wrote off his side's title hopes.
"To talk about the little race after a defeat is a bit strange, especially if this is the fourth defeat of the season in 16 games," Conte said.
Moyes has steadied the West Ham ship and while they are still in the bottom three, last week's narrow defeat at Manchester City and victory over Chelsea offers renewed hope.
Tottenham led at halftime througj a Ryan Shawcross own goal but cut loose aftet the break with Kane's double taking his Premier League tally for the calendar year to 33, three less than the record 36 scored by Alan Shearer in 1996
Martyn Herman
Reutes/ London
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