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STOKE, England (AP) -Jose Bosingwa and Nicolas Anelka scored Saturday to give Chelsea a 2-0 win at Stoke for its sixth consecutive away victory in the Premier League.
Bosingwa's goal was his first for Chelsea and gave the Blues the lead in the 36th minute. Anelka came off the bench to score for manager Luiz Felipe Scolari's team in the 76th.
It was Chelsea's third league win on the road this season and its sixth straight stretching back to the last campaign. The Blues are now unbeaten in 27 league matches overall.
Resilient Stoke battled hard for most of the game but rarely threatened, eventually slumping to its fourth defeat in six league games.
Chelsea has 14 points. Stoke has four.
Stoke had its first attempt on goal in the 36th when Mamady Sidibe?s header at the far post forced goalkeeper Petr Cech into a comfortable low-down save.
Chelsea almost immediately took the lead, Bosingwa finally managing to penetrate Stoke's solid defense when the Portugal right back started and finished a clinical move.
He broke down Chelsea's right flank and, after a neat exchange of passes, controlled Frank Lampard's pass on his chest before slotting the ball into the net from an angle despite defender Andy Griffin's attempt to clear on the line.
The 1-0 halftime score didn't quite reflect Chelsea's dominance as Stoke lacked the attacking punch of pre-match guest and former boxing world champion "Sugar" Ray Leonard.
Chelsea almost went 2-0 up in the 47th when Stoke failed to clear a corner and Florent Malouda found himself alone 20 meters (yards) out, but his stinging shot was tipped on to the crossbar by goalkeeper Thomas Soerensen.
Stoke substitute Ricardo Fuller injected some pace after coming on in the 55th, and the hosts almost equalized just minutes later when Leon Cort's header had to be cleared by John Obi Mikel.
The chance nearly punished Chelsea for failing to convert its superiority into more goals. Anelka?s miss from 12 meters (yards) after Lampard?s neat pass soon after was another example of its wastefulness.
Chelsea eventually extended its lead when Cort failed to clear Bosingwa's cross from the right and Anelka scored from close range after some clumsy defending.
