Match report: Chelsea 1 Crystal Palace 0
We are the champions!
Eden Hazard’s 19
th goal of the season was enough to claim top spot with three games to spare. The recently crowned Player of the Year scored on the stroke of half-time after his initial penalty had been saved and from then on, the win was never really in doubt.
Thibaut Courtois was asked to make one decent second-half save but more danger from the visitors from the other side of the Thames had come when the game was scoreless.
Didier Drogba, a man for so many successful seasons, tested the visitors’ keeper with a powerful free-kick during the first half and he, along with
Willian and
Branislav Ivanovic came close to doubling the lead in the second half but shot wide.
One goal always looked as if it would be enough however and so it proved. Let the party begin in west London! And around the globe for all other Chelsea fans – wherever you may be!
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