Didier Drogba's double strike rescued the Blues gave new Chelsea
coach Carlo Ancelotti a winning start to his Barclays Premier League
career seeing off Hull 2-1.
The Ivory Coast international grabbed the winner in added time to
shatter battling Hull's hopes of a point.
Chelsea had trailed to a 27th-minute goal from Hull's debut boy Stephen
Hunt, but Drogba levelled the scores in the 37th minute with a dipping
25-yard free-kick and then netted a fortuitous winner late in the
game to secure maximum reward for the home side.
But prior to Drogba's face-saving strike there were worrying echoes
of the Luiz Felipe Scolari era.
Chelsea resorted to far too much intricate approach play on the
edge of Hull's penalty area and when that failed they opted to punt
long balls into the danger zone from either flank.
They were tactics reminiscent of Scolari's ill-fated reign and,
just as Chelsea did so often under their former coach, they saved
themselves late on.
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