GOALS from Son Heung-min and Giovani Lo Celso helped Tottenham Hotspur surprise Manchester City 2-0 Saturday and move to the top of the Premier League table.

Tottenham took the lead in the fifth minute when both of City’s center-backs followed Harry Kane. That opened up plenty of space for Son Heung-min to pick up a lobbed pass from Tanguy Ndombele and score.

City had an overwhelming share of possession but accomplished little with it except for a disallowed goal for Aymeric Laporte after Gabriel Jesus controlled the ball with his arm in the buildup.

Giovani Lo Celso stretched Tottenham’s lead less than 30 seconds after coming off the bench when Kane played him in to score on a 65th-minute counter-attack. Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris reacted quickly to keep out Laporte’s header late on.

On the one-year anniversary of Jose Mourinho’s appointment, Tottenham is unbeaten in its last eight league games since losing to Everton on the opening weekend of the season.

Mourinho’s players are on a four-match winning run in the league and have been transformed into genuine title contenders just months after finishing outside the top four last term. Tottenham, which last won the top-flight title in 1961 and hasn’t lifted a major trophy since 2008, would surrender pole position if Leicester beats champion Liverpool at Anfield in a later match.

“It was a fantastic performance,” Tottenham striker Harry Kane told Sky Sports afterwards. “We knew it was going be a tough game, Man City is a great team but we used the ball really well. We had a game plan to defend as a unit in that mid-block, sometimes it went into a low block, but I thought everyone worked their socks off today.

“It’s a season where you’ve got to do all it takes to win games. It’s going to be an up and down year, you’ve seen that already. Part of my job is to work hard for the team, win tackles, of course score goals and getting assists but I enjoy defending and working hard.

“The feeling now after the game once you’ve put in a great shift, there’s no better feeling when you win. We’ll enjoy it but we know we’ve got a long way to go.”

City is languishing in 10th place, eight points behind the leader after its first defeat in 10 games in all competitions.

Earlier in the day, Chelsea went top of the table for a short while, thanks to a routine 2-0 win away to Newcastle United.

Fede Fernandez opened the scoring when he bundled a cross into his own net after 10 minutes and Tammy Abraham wrapped up the win following an assist from Timo Werner in the 65th minute.(SD-Agencies)