Costa and Hazard help Chelsea maintain perfect home record
Diego Costa was on target for the 11th time in the Barclays Premier League as Chelsea beat 10-man West Bromwich Albion 2-0 to make it six wins out of six at home in the league and go seven points clear at the top of the table.
West Brom had struggled to live with Chelsea even before Claudio Yacob was shown a straight red card for jumping in to win the ball from Costa.
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Yaya Toure was the match-winner as Manchester City emerged from their recent slump with a 2-1 comeback victory over Swansea City. The Barclays Premier League champions came into Saturday's match with one win from their last six matches in all competitions.
Wilfried Bony made the most of frailties among Manuel Pellegrini's team by handing Swansea an early lead at the Etihad Stadium as he controlled Nathan Dyer's chip over the Man City defence and slotted the ball past Joe Hart.
Stevan Jovetic restored parity after 19 minutes, converting first time a cross from Jesus Navas. Toure showed the combination of power and poise that brought him 20 BPL goals last season to net 17 minutes into the second half from Fernandinho's backheel.
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Leon Osman marked his 400th appearance for Everton with the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over West Ham United. The midfielder finished off a flowing move with 17 minutes remaining at Goodison Park, tapping home from close range after a superb low cross from Samuel Eto'o.
Romelu Lukaku had broken the deadlock in the first half with a poacher's finish, latching on to a deflection to net his fifth league goal of the season.
Mauro Zarate levelled for West Ham after the break, five minutes after coming on, albeit with the aid of a deflection.
However, in a frantic finale the hosts grabbed the winner through Osman's first league goal of the season to lift Everton into eighth. Defeat ends West Ham's five-match unbeaten run in the league and drops them out of the top four.
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Stand-in captain Moussa Sissoko led by example for Newcastle United on Saturday, scoring 12 minutes from time to see off Queens Park Rangers in a 1-0 win at St James' Park.
The France midfielder, captaining the side in place of the injured Fabricio Coloccini, played a clever one-two with Sammy Ameobi before steering a 78th-minute strike home as Newcastle recorded a fifth straight Barclays Premier League victory for the first time since April 2012.
QPR had seemed on their way to a first away point of the season, as Harry Redknapp's side stood firm for much of the game under plenty of Newcastle pressure.
However, Sissoko's first Barclays Premier League goal of the season moved Newcastle up to fourth, while QPR slip back to the foot of the table.
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Danny Ings' quickfire double earned Burnley a second successive Barclays Premier League win as they held on to defeat Stoke City 2-1.
The England Under-21 striker netted twice in as many minutes in the opening quarter of an hour as Sean Dyche's side made a flying start at the Britannia Stadium.
Those goals sparked Stoke into action and the hosts poured forward for the remainder of the match, pulling one back through Jonathan Walters shortly after the half-hour.
Stoke remained in the ascendancy after the interval, but despite dominating play, Mark Hughes's team were unable to find an equaliser as the Burnley backline stood firm.
The Potters' cause was not helped by losing Victor Moses 10 minutes into the second period, the Nigeria winger limping out of the action after proving a constant threat down Stoke's left.
Thanks to their first away win of the season, Burnley climb to 18th, with only goal difference separating them from a spot outside the bottom three.
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Leicester City's goal drought in the Barclays Premier League stretched to five matches as they were held to a 0-0 draw by Sunderland.
Both teams showed plenty of endeavour at the King Power Stadium, but a lack of composure in the final third meant neither could break the deadlock.
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Manchester United weather storm to secure Arsenal victory
Hosts Arsenal dominated for most of the opening hour at Emirates Stadium but found United goalkeeper David de Gea in excellent form, and Arsenal went behind when Wojciech Szczesny failed to deal with a cross in the 56th minute and Antonio Valencia's drilled cross was turned into his own net by Kieran Gibbs.
United made light of high-profile defensive absentees by closing out their first competitive away win of the Louis van Gaal era, a triumph sealed by Wayne Rooney on the counter-attack five minutes from time.
It could have been three late on when Angel di Maria missed with a one-on-one breakaway opportunity, before Olivier Giroud gave Arsenal something to cheer with a superb finish on his return to the side after being sidelined with a fractured tibia.
There were injuries to Jack Wilshere and Szczesny, who both had to go off, as Arsenal's miserable record against United was extended to one win in 15 attempts and the gap to Barclays Premier League leaders Chelsea was extended to 15 points.
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