It is an unedifying picture but an inevitable one given the sequence of results and the fractured excuse of performance in defeat at Leicester in midweek.
It was their fifth in eight Premier League games.
Eighth place in the league is a woeful under-achievement given the scale of the summer investment.
The mutterings out of Stamford Bridge of the need for a German-speaking replacement to coax something useful out of the £120m misfits Timo Werner and Kai Havertz are growing.
Lampard might well be wondering at this point why he ever took the job and equally Chelsea might be wondering why they offered it to him.
But, plunge taken, two wrongs should be allowed to play out in the desperate hope they might eventually make a right.
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