Inspired Cech saves Chelsea

CHELSEA were made to fight all the way for their place in the record books after a victory which owed everything to their Czech keeper Petr Cech.

Arjen Robben may have scored the goal which saw Jose Mourinho's side stretch the gap at the top to 11 points but it was Cech, who brilliantly saved a Paul Dickov penalty, who emerged as Chelsea's key man.

This was Chelsea's eighth consecutive league win all with clean sheets and Cech has now gone 781 minutes without conceding a goal, surpassing Peter Schmeichel's 1997 mark of 694 minutes.