Chelsea closed on the Premier League title when a first-half header from Nicolas Anelka secured a gritty 1-0 win over a fiercely resilient Bolton Wanderers side Tuesday. The victory took Carlo Ancelotti's men on to 77 points with four matches remaining, four clear of Manchester United whose hopes of an unprecedented fourth successive title are fading fast. Arsenal is six points behind Chelsea with one game in hand, against Tottenham Hotspur Wednesday. “It was a tough game, Bolton played their usual game, a lot of long balls, but we had 21 goal chances compared to their seven and deserved to win,” Ancelotti told reporters. Bolton manager Owen Coyle complained that his side was denied two penalties for handball, once by Didier Drogba and again by Chelsea skipper John Terry. “They were not penalty claims, they were stonewall penalties,” said Coyle. Anelka struck against one of his former clubs with a point-blank header two minutes before halftime when he broke free of static defending to meet Drogba's teasing cross at Stamford Bridge. Bolton, which has now lost five of its last six league matches without scoring, remained just five points clear of the relegation zone and is not yet safe from the drop. Eto'o puts Inter in final Inter Milan kept alive its dreams of landing a treble after it stormed into the Italian Cup final with a 2-0 aggregate win over Fiorentina Tuesday. Samuel Eto'o fired home a second half goal to give Inter a 1-0 second leg win at Fiorentina to make sure it stayed in the hunt for the Cup, Serie A and Champions League trophies. The Cameroon forward sprinted on to Thiago Motta's pass to spring the hosts' offside trap before controlling the ball and slamming it home in the 57th minute. Inter coach Jose Mourinho had taken the rare step of leaving several first-choice players out of his starting XI ahead of Friday's Serie A clash with Juventus and next week's Champions League semifinal first leg against Barcelona. The Italian champion was facing Fiorentina for the second time in three days after being held to a 2-2 draw Saturday in the league, a result which allowed AS Roma to snatch top spot in Serie A. Valladolid beats Sevilla Relegation-threatened Valladolid gained renewed hope with a 2-1 home win against fourth-placed Sevilla in the Spanish League Tuesday. Elsewhere, Roman Martinez and Alejandro Alfaro scored to give lowly Tenerife a 2-0 win against mid-table Sporting Gijon. In a late, hard-fought mid-table clash where points and goal average were key to both teams, Getafe's Nicolas “Miku” Fedor scored twice to beat Villarreal 3
