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Four games into the Premier League season and it's a familiar story for those following Chelsea. The Blues are once again languishing in mid-table, though the early stages of the campaign mean week-to-week there are chances for giant leaps and just one win could propel them up the table.

However, it is the lingering sense that even with a new manager and largely new players, the issues ahead of them are still the same. One month in and only Everton have underperformed their xG by a larger number than Chelsea. Although in the long-run it is likely to even out, not being clinical in attack and conceding poor goals at the other end was what cost Graham Potter last season.

Winning the xG battle is hardly enough to convince those that go to watch matches that everything under the surface is actually okay, but what it does do is show that most of the play is up to a good enough standard. Only three clubs — Brentford, Manchester City and Brighton — have registered more xG at this stage of the season and Chelsea's tally is more than Arsenal or Tottenham, both of whom are ahead of them in the actual table.

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In fact, when taking into account their xGA (expected goals against) there are only City and Arsenal that have a better performance at this stage. It's putting the ball in the net that matters though and despite the positivity around Nicolas Jackson he has just one goal to show for his work. Heading to Bournemouth on Sunday he will be aiming to change that.

Like the rest of the side, Jackson is deeply inexperienced and has just one purple patch of