Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino insists his team should be "fourth".
Pochettino says the owners should also be supported by the Blues fans.
"I'm going to support the owners that invest and that arrived to the club in a very difficult situation," said Pochettino, who was hired last summer.
"The intention is very good. The owners are trying to develop a different project to before. Fans need to understand that it's a new project with different ideas.
"What we cannot say is they're not investing and that they don't have good intentions. They are suffering."
The former Tottenham manager continued: "If you look at all the data, in the table we should be in fourth position. But for different reasons, we are not there.
"What the data means is that we are in a good way. In which area do we need to improve? It's things [that will come] with time. We need to compete better, small details. You can only get this with experience with time playing together.
"It's easy to find the data when you want to kill someone. But when the data is good and reflects the team is doing well but for different reasons we're not getting the results we deserve, [we should] trust in the process."
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