It just goes from bad to worse for Chelsea. After a woeful start to the season, where they'd won just two of their opening seven games, a home game against Southampton was supposed to the perfect chance to start putting things right again.

But despite Willian giving Jose Mourinho' side the lead in the 10th minute, Southampton refused to give up and deservedly got themselves back in the game through a Steven Davis finish just before the end of the first half.

Saido Mane gave Southampton the lead mid-way through the second half thanks to some suspect Chelsea defending, and then Graziano Pelle wrapped up the three points for the visitors.

The result leaves Chelsea in 16th position with just eight points from their opening eight games - no team has ever finished higher than fifth after a start like that. It's another week of disappointment for Chelsea, but also another week of learning from their strange fall from grace.

So here's what we learned today...

Ivanovic must be dropped

The big Serb has been a shadow of his former self all season and there have been calls to drop the defender for weeks now.

But Jose Mourinho stuck with him again today and his side paid the price. Ivanovic was made to look silly by a number of Saints players on a number of occasions.

The sheer fact that Mourinho hasn't tried to rectify his side's poor defending of late by removing one it's biggest problems has been one of the most alarming aspects of Chelsea's plight.

The fans have finally turned...

There was a feeling Chelsea fans would begin to get pretty restless if this run of poor form continued, but it was a little bit of a surprise to see fans calling for Mourinho's head midway through the game on Saturday.

Almost immediately after Mane had put Southampton in the lead following some awful defending from Chelsea, Blues fans took to Twitter to demand the manager's sacking.

It's a really strange one because, with all the Portuguese's antics off the pitch and his questionable team line ups recently, you wonder how a side with so much latent can ever turn it around with such a drastic change.

It may perhaps be a bit premature, but the simple fact is that Chelsea are in very big trouble right now.

Chelsea are out of the title race

Their latest defeat leaves Chelsea a huge 10 points behind league leaders Manchester City after just eight games. That, quite simply, puts them out of the title race and ends their chances of successfully defending their crown.

Some may remain optimistic, but when not a single team has finished about fifth in the league after taking just eight points from their first eight games, which tells you a lot about the task at hand for Chelsea.

Can Mourinho turn it around? He's certainly good enough to do so, but you get the sense that so much has happened both on and off the field that he may not get the chance to do so.

Either way, Chelsea won't be winning the Premier League this season.