Chelsea top group but fail to inspire

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However, an uninspired performance and a half-hearted atmosphere at Stamford Bridge would seem to indicate Jose Mourinho has not solved all his problems just yet.

A scrappy goal from Demba Ba, initially given as an own goal for Daniel Georgievski, was enough to clinch victory — and with no complicated mathematics required to work out who tops the group, the job was done however dull it may have been.