Moses sparkles as Chelsea beats Burnley
Chelsea kept alive its slim chance of sneaking into next season's Champions League with a 2-1 win at Burnley Thursday.
An own goal from Kevin Long and a Victor Moses strike was enough to hand Chelsea victory. Ashley Barnes was on target for Burnley.
It is the first time Chelsea has won back-to-back league matches since December and saw Antonio Conte's men move within five points of fourthplace Tottenham with four matches remaining.
The top four in the Premier League qualify for Europe's premier club competition.
Chelsea made six changes at high-flying Burnley, with Olivier Giroud being rewarded for his double against Southampton on Saturday with a starting place.
Sean Dyche named an unchanged side as Burnley looked to move above sixth-place Arsenal with a sixth straight win.
Chelsea dominated and took the lead in the 20th minute when Long deflected the ball into his own net after good work on the right by Moses.
Alvaro Morata has had a poor season since his summer move from Real Madrid and he should have doubled Chelsea's lead in the second half but somehow fired wide when clean through against goalkeeper Nick Pope.
Burnley leveled in the 64th minute in fortunate circumstances as Johann Berg Gudmundsson's effort from the edge of the area was deflected into the bottom corner by Barnes.
It took Chelsea five minutes to restore its lead with Moses left unmarked to fire in Emerson's cross from the left.
Southampton draw does little to dispel drop fears
Southampton snapped a fourmatch losing run with a 0-0 draw at Leicester on Thursday but the result did little to ease the club's Premier League relegation fears.
Mark Hughes' team is four points adrift of fourth from bottom Swansea, which has played one game fewer, and five behind next best Crystal Palace.
The draw halted back-to-back losses for Leicester, which remained eighth.
Leicester threatened twice inside the opening quarter hour. Riyad Mahrez, Kelechi Iheanacho and Jamie Vardy moved the ball quickly on the edge of the penalty area before Mahrez's low shot was smothered by goalkeeper Alex McCarthy.
Some more lovely one-touch football then saw Iheanacho curl an effort narrowly wide, with McCarthy rooted to the spot.
Southampton's first opening came when Dusan Tadic's halfvolley flew past the post.
The visitors should have done better with two chances late in the first half.
Cedric Soares missed the target with a volley from Shane Long's far-post cross before Long failed to make the most of a potential two-on-one opportunity, misplacing his pass to Tadic.
Long went even closer in the second half with a swivelling effort which was blocked at point-blank range by Ben Hamer, who was standing in for the injured Kasper Schmeichel in goal.
Leicester then almost scored when McCarthy did well to fingertip Vardy's volley over the crossbar.