Jim'll fix it Gud, says Chelsea legend

Chelsea need to stick with underfire front pairing of Eidur Gudjohnsen and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in their vital Premiership clash with Manchester United – so says their greatest ever goalscorer.

A single point will be enough to deny United a place in the top two for the second time in three seasons - and Chelsea's all-time top goalscorer Bobby Tambling believes Gudjohnsen and Hasselbaink are the pair to do it.

“I’ve said all season that I still believe Gudjohnsen and Jimmy are still our best partnership,” says Tambling, who lives in Co Cork.

“I think Jimmy has gone through a bad patch and of late hasn’t been getting the goals but I still think he should be up there.”

Chelsea started with Gudjohnsen and Hasselbaink as they crashed out of the Champions League and once again neither striker managed to find the net – an alarming loss of form.

Yet Tambling, who scored 202 goals for the Blues between 1958 and 1970, still feels they are the top pairing - and not as 'impact' subs.

“Jimmy is the kind of player who needs to be on the pitch from the start,” he says. “Some players are like that. They don’t have the same effect coming on as a sub in a game.

“I think Gudjohnsen is the kind of player who can provide goals to others as well as score goals - the other strikers at Chelsea don’t have that.

“I think it would be close between Gudjohnsen and Jimmy and Gudjohnsen and Crespo, but I’d start with Jimmy.”