Chelsea took back top spot in the Premier League table, after squeezing past a well-drilled West Brom team 1-0 at Stamford Bridge.
The Blues have now won nine consecutive Premier League games, but by far this was the trickiest test they’d faced, as Diego Costa’s fine solo effort wrapped up the points with just under 15 minutes to go.
Tony Pulis’ side set up to frustrate Chelsea, and it worked a treat, with the experienced defensive pairing Johnny Evans and Gareth McAuley working tirelessly to try and prevent Chelsea’s potent and unchanged attacking threat.
The only real chances fell to David Luiz who didn’t particularly trouble Ben Foster from his free-kick efforts, whilst Salomon Rondon nearly got on the end of an enticing West From cross.
It was, however, the tried and tested link up between substitute Cesc Fabregas and Costa that broke the deadlock for Chelsea, a chipped ball down the channel from Fabregas gave Costa something to chase.
After outmuscling the otherwise superb McAuley, the forward strolled into the box and curled his shot right into Foster’s far corner, giving the keeper no chance.
From there after Chelsea soaked up a late West Brom onslaught to claim all three points.
