15 March 2010 / REUTERS, LONDON
Didier Drogba scored twice to lift Chelsea (the Blues) to a 4-1 victory over West Ham United on Saturday and back to the top of the Premier League while Arsenal shadowed them with a last-gasp victory at Hull City.
Two weeks after a shock 4-2 defeat by Manchester City at Stamford Bridge, the Blues rediscovered their form and with Florent Malouda enjoying one of his best games for the club ended up handsome winners. Drogba’s double and one for Malouda killed off relegation-threatened West Ham who were level at halftime after former Chelsea man Scott Parker cancelled out Alex’s header. Nicklas Bendtner, fresh from a Champions League hat-trick against Porto in midweek, punished Hull keeper Boaz Myhill’s mistake in the third minute of stoppage time to earn Arsenal a 2-1 victory at 10-man Hull. Below the title scrap, Roman Pavlyuchenko boosted fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur’s push for Champions League qualification with two goals in a 3-1 home defeat of Blackburn Rovers.
