JUST who is writing the script for Chelsea away days this season?

Two weeks ago the Blues took apart Newcastle apart, but tonight they huffed and puffed against lowly Wigan and were hit by a late equaliser from Jordi Gomez. 

Does any of that make sense? Of course it doesn't: this is Chelsea.

Wigan set out to nullify Chelsea with five at the back, but this quickly turned to nine at the back when not in possession.

Daniel Sturridge looked to be the main course of attack as he terrorised Wigan left back David Jones, but even he found difficulty breaking through the Latics blockade.

Oriol Romeu could have opened the scoring on 23 minutes with a volley from 30 yards that Ali Al Habsi managed to touch around his own post.

Chelsea, not playing the nippy passing game that recently saw for Newcastle and Valencia, were clearly missing the sidelined Ramires.

Instead they tried to loft passes into the box, but Wigan managed to intercept most of them.

On the one occasion Raul Meireles found his man, Didier Drogba's dipping header just failed to connect at the far post.

Wigan appealed for a penalty five minutes before the break when a shot from Victor Moses hit Branislav Ivanovic's arm on the six-yard-line.

These are usually given when a defender's hands are in the air, but Ivanovic's were much lower than that, protecting an area even more sensitive than the goalmouth.

Andre Villas-Boas made rare half-time tactical change as he replaced Romeu with wide-man Saloman Kalou and dropped Juan Mata back to the number 10 position.

Substitute Fernando Torres remained on the bench – but Chelsea didn't need their £50m man to break the deadlock.

A 35-yard pass from Ashley Cole found Sturridge on the edge of the box, and he raced onto it with relish, before beating his man, the keeper, and almost the back of the bet with a strike of quality and ferocity on the hour.

Now with the lead, Villas-Boas immediately reversed his impact substitution, by replacing Mata with John Mikel Obi – to slow the game back down.

Chelsea looked to be taking the points home until, with two minutes to go, confusion between Cole and Cech in the box saw the ball spilled for Gomez to level.

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