The games are coming thick and fast as the Blues enter a crucial period of the campaign, competing across two fronts. First comes a midweek trip to face the Seagulls in the Premier League tomorrow evening, before we head to Wembley for an FA Cup semi-final against old rivals Leeds United on Sunday.

For our head coach, the target is clear. Take a step closer to a top-five league finish and qualification for next season’s UEFA Champions League, before booking our place in a cup final for the chance to lift silverware.

Our next two games are vital for those ambitions, and Rosenior says these are the high-stakes moments that make the sport so exciting.

‘It's a massive week,’ said Rosenior. ‘It's what you're in football for, key games. We've got a huge game [against Brighton] and then we go into an FA Cup semi-final against a Leeds team in form.

‘That's why we're in football, that's what we want. Now is the time for us to deliver and that's what we have to work towards.’

According to the Chelsea head coach, the key to bouncing back from the weekend’s loss to Manchester United and securing the results we need during the coming week is simple.

Rosenior says we must block out potential distractions by concentrating solely on the task at hand, which is maximising our chances of getting back to winning ways. In other words, first things first, and the first thing on the agenda right now is picking up three points at Brighton.

‘It's about our standards, it's about our performances,’ he continued. ‘We have to arrest this run of form. We haven't won enough games recently – that has to change.

‘If you start thinking about the repercussions, you're not focused on what you're doing. We have to focus on the game tomorrow. We have to focus on the way we play and we have to make sure we win games.

‘That's what this club demands, rightfully so, and it's what the fans expect. You can't speak about the long term if you're not doing the job in the short term.

'Being respectfully honest, we haven't done well enough in recent games. That needs to change and that's on my shoulders as the head coach.

'We have to make sure we train very well, which we have done today (Monday), and we go down to Brighton, where the only focus has to be on winning this game of football.'