Nicolas Anelka continued his impressive warm-up for the new campaign as he opened the scoring in the first half and substitute Ashley Cole doubled the advantage after the interval.

Chelsea – who had Joe Cole starting his first game of pre-season, while Michael Essien began the match at right-back – had opened the encounter in a nervous fashion.

And Malaysia’s lively forward Amirulhadi Zainal should have done better when he broke clear in the opening five minutes, only to drag wide of the far post with Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech stranded.

The Blues, though, then took charge as summer signing Deco dominated the midfield, and the Portuguese playmaker almost scored in spectacular fashion as he went close with a long-range volley after a clever Frank Lampard free-kick.

With Didier Drogba absent from Chelsea’s pre-season preparations, Anelka was revelling in his lone striking role and he deservedly opened the scoring on 26 minutes.

Joe Cole carried the ball over the half-way line before threading a pass through to Anelka who beat the offside trap to smash in with his left foot.

Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari introduced Ashley Cole among a number of substitutes at the interval and the defender was on the scoresheet eight minutes later.

Lampard deftly feinted to shoot only to carve apart Malaysia’s back four with a neat ball to Cole, who turned before firing into the roof of the net from eight yards.

Malaysia continued to pose occasional attacking danger and the eye-catching Zainal again threatened on the hour mark when he fired wide from the edge of the box.

However, that was to be as close as Malaysia came to netting a consolation as Chelsea, who face Lokomotiv Moscow in Russia on Friday, continued their 100 per cent pre-season record.