Chelsea face Bournemouth at the weekend and could fall behind the Cherries should they lose the trip to the south coast and Frank Lampard will be hoping for a better performance

There wasn't much to learn from Chelsea's loss to Arsenal on Tuesday night, as it has felt so frequently this season. Given the dismal first-half performance of the Blues at the Emirates Stadium, it was often difficult to even recognize Noni Madueke's efforts.

But in many ways, Madueke's performance was the moment viewers had been anticipating. The 21-year-old player joined the team in January and is an important component of its future at a time when few players can commit to playing at Stamford Bridge past the summer.

Madueke showed some promising forays forward and took his goal very well before being substituted later in the game. Providing his knock is not too severe, the winger guaranteed his place in the team to face Bournemouth.

The former PSV star has proved himself to Lampard in recent weeks having missed out on the caretaker manager's first squads before making his way onto the bench and eventually into the starting line against the Gunners. Madueke has shown endeavour to prove his abilities in training and as a result managed to impress Chelsea staff and supporters alike.

Lampard noted following the game: "I spoke a lot about confidence after Brentford, stand by that. The team is low on confidence but it's also underperforming in the basics. Now it's the question of five games to compete with each other, like Noni did tonight in his performance from two weeks of good training, to show you deserve to be in the team. Those should be the rules anyway: now or never. People say there's nothing on these games but they're wrong. Every individual has a lot on these games."