Chelsea have had an indifferent start to the new Premier League season.
Humbled on the opening weekend of the season at the hands of Manchester United, they drew at home to Leicester before Frank Lampard enjoyed his first win a boss against Norwich City.
But they could not follow that up with another win as they blew a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with another newly-promoted side in Sheffield United on Saturday.
Five points from the opening four games is not a bad return, but with the fixtures as they were, Lampard will have been hoping for more.
The Blues legend is in his first season as a Premier League manager, and only his second season as a boss, having spent last year in the Championship with Derby County.
Lampard has had his hands tied in the summer, not being able to bring in any new players because of a transfer embargo laid down by Fifa.
Many pundits felt he was the right man for the job as a result of that transfer embargo, because he knows the club so well and would be given time to put his philosophies in place with less pressure on him.
But time is not something that many Chelsea managers have been afforded in the past under Roman Abramovich, a point Gary Lineker was only too keen to make on Match of the Day.
After speaking about Lampard and how he has started at the club with guest Tim Cahill, Lineker moved onto the next game with a pointed dig at Chelsea by saying: "Might need a bit of patience...which you get at Chelsea obviously."
Ouch.
