Nicolas Anelka says his 'handcuff' celebration after scoring two first-half goals to put Chelsea on the way to a comfortable 4-1 victory over MSK Zilina was directed at the French Football Federation.

Anelka set up Michael Essien's 13th-minute opener before scoring twice himself as Chelsea cruised to victory in Slovakia. Daniel Sturridge added the fourth before Tomas Oravec replied for the home side.

"It was just something for the French Federation about what happened at the World Cup," said Anelka of his celebration. "What happened in summer is in the past, now I'm 100% focused for Chelsea."

When asked if he would ever consider playing for France again, he replied: "No, never. It was just a joke about what happened. I'm not angry."

Anelka's movement in attack in the absence of the suspended Didier Drogba was pivotal, according to the satisfied Chelsea manager, Carlo Ancelotti.

"The key was Anelka, he played a fantastic game," said the Italian. "He created space, he had opportunities, he was the key for this game. He can play the position in front, sometimes we use him more wide, sometimes he plays in the middle but he shows the same skills if he plays wide."

And Ancelotti was happy with the defensive performance. "Every game in the Champions League is hard to play," he said. "We started very well in the first half, we played fantastic football, the second half was different.

"Zilina put more pressure on our defence. The back four did a good match. When you are 3-0 up it's normal to have more difficulty. I think that Petr [Cech] could do better with the goal we conceded but we faced a lot of crosses. We had to put more pressure on the wide side. Defensively the back four had a good game."

The Zilina coach, Pavel Hapel, was surprised by the scoreline and said the only difference between the two sides was Chelsea's clinical finishing.

"I am not disappointed with the game," said Hapel. "We played well and attacked Chelsea. We managed to score so it was OK. We kept up with Chelsea as much as we could but I am disappointed with the productivity. The score was a surprise. We didn't show the same productivity in front of goal as Chelsea did."