Mon, 2nd Apr 2007

It was a March to remember for Salomon Kalou.

Saturday's lifeline late winner at Vicarage Road confirmed his status as Chelsea's most in-form net-finder with four goals in his seven appearances last month. He has proved an impact player too with three of those goals coming in the final ten minutes after coming on as a sub.

Add to his club record his first international goal for Ivory Coast and March looks even better still.

'That is why I am on the bench, so I can come on and bring some quality to the game,' Kalou said after his stoppage time header had finished off Watford and, at the same time, prevented his own team's title hopes going the same way.

'I am happy that I could make a difference. The football game is 90 minutes so if the game is not over, we still believe and we are still pushing.

'When the ball was crossed, I saw Didier go towards the near post so I aimed my run so that if he didn't get the ball, I would get it.

'It was difficult because so many players come from playing a lot with their national teams,' he added, 'but we did the most important thing, win the three points.'

John Terry has revealed that the players attempted to avoid the news of Man United's final score before kicking-off at Watford, but with little success.

'We knew they were 1-0 down in the first-half but we half-expected them to come back. Before kick-off, everyone was trying to tell us they were 4-1 up but we were trying to stay away from that - but people were talking and we found out. There is always someone who wants to tell you the result.

'But it is up to us to keep winning and put pressure on them. They are playing well at the minute and keep winning and we need to keep winning ourselves. We needed to win at places like Watford.

'Watford made it tough from the word go but we kept plugging away, the manager made some great changes and we chased the game.

'You could say it has been a busy week but that is no excuse, we are professionals and we had two or three days to recover. They started much better than us and the manager wanted a lot more from us at half-time,' revealed the skipper.

'I think he got that second-half. I asked him if I should go up for the last three minutes but he said we had enough people up so I stayed back. Thankfully there was a great ball from Sheva and great finish from Salomon.'