| Alan Pardew hailed Papiss Cisse's performance after Newcastle's 15th clean sheet of the season. Pardew: Cisse is special Papiss Cisse produced a brilliant brace to keep alive Newcastle's hopes of finishing fourth with a 2-0 win at Chelsea. The Senegal striker stunned Stamford Bridge inside 20 minutes when he collected a pass from Davide Santon, flicking it up with his right foot and blasting the ball past Petr Cech with his left. But that was nothing compared to what he had in store for the Chelsea keeper with his second. Newcastle appeared to be playing the game out during stoppage time when, out on the left flank, Cisse cut across a ball with his right foot and sent a swerving shot flying over Cech and into the net. In between the two strikes, Chelsea pushed and probed for an equaliser, with Santon clearing off the line from John Terry, but the home side lacked Cisse's spectacular cutting edge. And the win keeps Alan Pardew's side level on points with fourth-place Tottenham with two games to play. Chelsea are now four points behind and will surely need to beat Bayern Munich on May 19 if they are to play Champions League football next season. Cisse's second goal came in 10 minutes of second-half stoppage-time added for a sickening head injury to Cheik Tiote, the only sour note for the visitors after an impressive night's work. It all looked so bright for Chelsea early on. Fernando Torres looked in the mood to add to his first Blues hat-trick, although this time he failed ... |
