Chelsea's season is yet to truly get started and they are now 14 games in, 16 points adrift of league-leaders Arsenal and eight points off of another one of their London rivals Tottenham in fourth.
The good feeling that greeted Graham Potter’s arrival at Stamford Bridge is long gone off the back of three notable defeats to Brighton, Arsenal and Manchester City in the last two weeks.
Another 1-0 loss at St. James' Park at the hands of in-form Newcastle has ramped the pressure right up on Potter so soon into his reign. The Blues now languish as low as eighth in the Premier League table.