Chelsea punish United shortcomings

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If further evidence was required of the diverging fortunes of Chelsea and Manchester United, this game provided it in spades.

While Samuel Eto’o’s hat-trick maintained Chelsea’s position within two points of leaders Arsenal, United are clinging to the coat-tails of the leading group, their plight illustrated, painfully from Moyes’ point of view, by the way in which Mourinho spoke of his hope that the Old Trafford club could aid Chelsea’s title challenge by taking points off their rivals and in doing so, claw their way into the top four.