Nicolas Anelka and Salomon Kalou both scored twice as Chelsea thrashed Wigan.
Florent Malouda gave Chelsea the lead when he tapped in after Frank Lampard’s deft flick was saved by Chris Kirkland.
Anelka added a second shortly after the break when he fired in from inside the area and then nodded in his second before Kalou slotted in his first.
Provider Didier Drogba then crossed for Kalou to head in his second and Yossi Benayoun rounded off the scoring when he converted Paulo Ferreira’s cross.
Although the scoreline was emphatic, for the first half-an-hour Wigan’s simple gameplan of beating Chelsea to the first ball had frustrated the visitors.
Had they possessed Chelsea’s confidence in attack then nobody would have begrudged them of taking the early lead.
