London, Oct 23- Manchester City achieved one of their greatest victories when they crushed Manchester United 6-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday to pull five points clear of their neighbours at the top of the Premier League.
The stunning success - their biggest at Old Trafford since a 5-0 win in 1955 - saw Mario Balotelli and late substitute Edin Dzeko score twice while Sergio Aguero and David Silva added the others.
City have 25 points from nine games, followed by United on 20, Chelsea and Newcastle United on 19 and Tottenham Hotspur on 16.
Three of City's goals came in the last four minutes and they could have had even more against a United side reduced to 10 men when Jonny Evans was sent off for grappling with Balotelli after 47 minutes.
City's title challenge was given another boost later when Chelsea were reduced to nine men in the first half after the dismissals of Jose Bosingwa and Didier Drogba and lost 1-0 at West London neighbours Queens Park Rangers.
Rangers won with a Heidar Helguson penalty after nine minutes.
Spurs stretched their unbeaten run to 10 games in all competitions, two goals from Rafael van der Vaart giving them a 2-1 win at Blackburn Rovers who went bottom of the table.
Arsenal continued improving after their poor start to the season with a 3-1 home win over Stoke City with Robin van Persie scoring twice.
In the day's other match Everton won 3-1 at Fulham who are now one place and one point above the relegation zone.
news from: bdnews24.com
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