WEMBLEY, England (AP) — Didier Drogba delivered Chelsea’s fourth FA Cup triumph in six seasons yesterday by becoming the first player to score in four finals to help the Blues survive a second-half Liverpool onslaught for a 2-1 victory.

After Ramires seized on Liverpool blunders to put Chelsea in front after 11 minutes, Drogba scored his eighth goal in eight games at Wembley in the 52nd minute of the 131st final of the competition.

Drogba slotted the ball through defender Martin Skrtel’s legs and into the net after being fed by Frank Lampard as a lethargic Liverpool posed little threat.

“He is my hero,” Lampard said of Drogba. “No striker I have ever played with has scored so many important goals in finals.”

Liverpool substitute Andy Carroll breathed life back into the game when he pulled one back in the 64th after teasing his way around Chelsea captain John Terry.

He thought he had an equaliser as well when his close-range header was swatted away on the goal line via the crossbar by Petr Cech, but the referee waved away Liverpool’s appeals for a goal and replays failed to show that the entire ball had crossed the line.

But, two weeks before the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, Chelsea held on to keep the recovery on track since Roberto Di Matteo replaced Andre Villas-Boas as coach two months ago when the team was in free fall.

“He has been brilliant,” Lampard said. “He has turned the club around.”

Terry became the first captain to lift the FA Cup four times with the same club, who have won the world’s oldest KO competition seven times.

“It’s fantastic, it’s what we live for,” Terry said. “At times people have slated us as too old, past it or not together but as a team we come together and unite when our backs are against the wall and we’ve done that superbly in the last 16 or 17 games.

“We’ve still got a massive trophy, the Champions League that’s the target for the owner from day dot. We’ve done Robbie a world of good and it can do him no harm.”

For both Chelsea and Liverpool, the FA Cup has provided a distraction from miserable Premier League form, with both teams out of the top four Champions League qualification places.

In Kenny Dalglish’s first full season in charge since returning after 20 years, Liverpool will have to settle with one trophy, the League Cup won here in February.