Hasselbaink sparks Chelsea revival
LEICESTER, England -- Chelsea's Dutch striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored two first-half goals and Romanian substitute Adrian Mutu ended a two-month goal drought in the 88th minute in a 4-0 win at Leicester.
Nigeria defender Celestine Babayaro rifled in the last goal in stoppage time.
Chelsea's win enabled them to shrug off their midweek loss to Liverpool and end a poor spell of three defeats in five games.
"Today we showed character, skill, quality -- everything," enthused manager Claudio Ranieri. "This match was important for getting our confidence back ... we really wanted to win."
Hasselbaink summed up the mood, saying: "I was up for it and I think everybody else was, because we had a point to prove."
Hasselbaink got off to a flying start by neatly backheeling his first after only 12 minutes, beating his marker Nikos Dabizas to Joe Cole's low cross from the right.
He followed up just before the break with a free-kick that took a wicked deflection off the luckless Dabizas on the Greek defender's home debut.
Two goals already looked enough when Mutu fired in from distance and Babayaro pounced on some sloppy defending to crash home the fourth.
