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West Ham went ahead in the final minute of the first half as Ashley Cole brought down Jack Collison to enable Alessandro Diamanti to drive home the penalty.
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West Ham's Mark Noble (R) challenges for the ball with Chelsea's Ricardo Carvalho during their English Premier League soccer match at Upton Park in London December 20, 2009. |
Lampard twice fired home the spot kick but each time had to take it again because players from both teams had run into the penalty area.
He had to convert the penalty a third time and earned one point for the Premier League leaders.
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West Ham's Guillermo Franco (R) challenges for the ball with Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic during their English Premier League soccer match at Upton Park in London December 20, 2009. |
West Ham would have slipped to last with a defeat but instead moved a point ahead of Portsmouth into 19th place, who beat Liverpool 2-0 on Saturday.
Birmingham's five-game winning streak ended with a 1-1 draw at Everton where Alex McLeish's team had to come from behind to get a point.
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov fired Everton ahead in the fifth minute but Sebastian Larsson equalized in the 22nd as Birmingham jumped above Liverpool into seventh place and stretched its unbeaten run to nine games.
Wolverhampton Wanderers moved out of the relegation zone and upto 12th place after a 2-0 victory over Burnley, which has only captured one point in nine games away from home.