Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech hailed Didier Drogba's performance for their Champions League win over Valencia.

Cech, who has now kept three clean sheets in his last four matches, reserved special praise for his Ivorian team-mate.

He told his official website: "He showed how important he is for us. The main thing he can help with is scoring goals. If Didier plays or if (Fernando) Torres comes on the pitch then, we have two world-class strikers in both.

"In a lot of previous matches we failed to convert many opportunities and that cost us points.

"It backfired on us in the Genk and Leverkusen games. In this one we scored early and knew that then all we had to do was defend carefully and wait for counterattacks. We managed it well."