The Argentine converted De Bruyne's teasing cross in the 48th minute and collected another pass from the Belgian to fire through Kasper Schmeichel's attempted save. The forward completed his hat-trick with a delicate chip before adding a fourth with an unstoppable, dipping drive which crashed in off the underside of the crossbar. The 29-year-old now has 21 league goals this season and became only the fourth player to score more than 20 times in four successive Premier League campaign. In front of a Premier League record crowd of 83,222, Spurs were in the ascendancy for much of the afternoon - particularly in the second half when only a string of saves from Cech kept Arsenal in the game. Spurs registered 18 shots to Arsenal's six with Kane, a constant thorn in the visitor's side, wasting a number of opportunities to seal a more comfortable win.? @DeBruyneKev's hat-trick of assists has given him a substantial lead... pic.twitter.com/MWebLqSCkR
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Arsenal, however, did have late chances to equalise with substitute Alexandre Lacazette - who replaced the ineffective Henrikh Mkhitaryan - twice going close in the closing minutes. Everton bounced back from a humiliating 5-1 defeat at Arsenal with Gylfi Sigurdsson, Oumar Niasse and Tom Davies on target in a straightforward 3-1 win over Crystal Palace at Goodison Park. Everton climbed to ninth and the only negative was Luka Milivojevic's late consolation for Palace from the penalty spot. In south Wales, Swansea City registered a third Premier League victory in four matches with Ki Sung-yueng's late strike lifting them to 15th after a tense 1-0 victory over out-of-form Burnley. West Ham United climbed five points above the relegation zone and ended a run of three league games without victory with a 2-0 win over Watford thanks to goals from Javier Hernandez and Marko Arnautovic.Glorious goals galore...#PL pic.twitter.com/00SWImnBVU
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Stoke City drew 1-1 with Brighton and Hove Albion after Xherdan Shaqiri cancelled out Jose Izquierdo's brilliant opener for the visitors. Charlie Adam missed a late penalty for a Stoke side who remained in the relegation zone.RESULTSEverton 3 (Sigurdsson 46, Niasse 51, Davies 75) Palace 1 (Milivojevic 83-P)Stoke 1 (Shaqiri 68) Brighton 1 (Izquierdo 32)Swansea 1 (Ki 81) Burnley 0Tottenham 1 (Kane 49) Arsenal 0West Ham 2 (Hernandez 38, Arnautovic 78) Watford 0Man City 5 (Sterling 3, Aguero 48, 53, 77, 90) Leicester 1 (Vardy 24) SUNDAY'S MATCHESHuddersfield v Bournemouth, Newcastle v Man Utd and Southampton v LiverpoolMan City reinforce their lead at the top of the #PL pic.twitter.com/ttO9jZoEhb
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