Goals : Fernandes 28' - Adebayor 9' 88', Silva 26'

Arsenal became the first team to win a league game at Manchester City this season on Saturday with a 3-1 victory putting them top of the Premier League.

Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor took his league tally to 18 with two goals in a masterful performance in which he also set up strike partner Eduardo da Silva. Gelson Fernandes scored for City who were generally second best.

Arsenal have 60 points and will stay top if champions Manchester United (57) do not win at Tottenham Hotspur in a later kickoff. Third-placed Chelsea, who have 53 points, are in action at Portsmouth.

Adebayor put the Gunners ahead after nine minutes, sweeping a shot through Joe Hart after a surging run from Bacary Sagna. He turned provider after 26 minutes, heading down Gael Clichy's cross to Eduardo who chested down and volleyed beyond Hart.

City were handed an unexpected lifeline minutes later when Vedran Corluka robbed Clichy and set up Fernades for a neat finish past keeper Jens Lehmann who started in place of the injured Manuel Almunia.

Arsenal did not sit on their lead in the second half but had to wait until two minutes from time to make the points certain after Cesc Fabregas's ball reached him on the edge of the area.

City's only other defeat at home this season came against Tottenham in the League Cup.

"At the moment I am enjoying myself like a little kid," Adebayor, who has scored eight goals in his last six games, told Sky Sports. "At 2-0 we thought we had already won it but they scored and that made it a bit difficult."