Chelsea captain John Terry hopes Saturday's 1-0 win against Norwich can kick-start the Premier League champions' season.
The title holders claimed just a fourth win from 13 games of the campaign, as Diego Costa's goal secured victory against the Canaries at Stamford Bridge for the Blues to climb above their opponents to 15th in the table.
Jose Mourinho's position as manager had been under scrutiny after three straight league losses for the first time in Roman Abramovich's 12-year ownership, with the Portuguese the subject of a first vote of confidence in that period last month.
Mourinho maintains that a title challenge is "mission impossible," but Terry says there is an opportunity for Chelsea to build upon the win -- firstly at Maccabi Tel-Aviv on Tuesday, before games with Tottenham, Bournemouth, Porto, Leicester, Sunderland, Watford and Manchester United before the end of 2015.
"We're delighted to win," Terry told Chelsea's official website. "Relieved as well. Picking up three points has been a really good feeling. Good performance to top it off as well.
"Hopefully we can put ourselves on a good run of games now and climb up this table. We can build on this now and hopefully get another win on Tuesday."
Chelsea have endured a miserable start to the season domestically, but can qualify for the Champions League knockout stages with victory in Israel if Dynamo Kiev fail to beat Porto.
"We have three points on the board now in the Premier League and switch focus to the Champions League again," Terry added. "With that in mind and the importance of qualifying it's all there for everyone to see and to go and do."
Chelsea showed improvement on the losses to West Ham, Liverpool and Stoke, with Eden Hazard demonstrating glimpses of why he was PFA Player of the Year last season.
Costa scored his fourth goal of the season after Cesc Fabregas' quick free kick, but should have had two more and Mourinho felt his side should have won more comfortably.
Terry agreed, saying: "Anyone who has been to the games and watched the last five, six games has seen the performances have been there.
"[Against Norwich was] very much the same. Creating chances, shots on goal, crosses into the box. It could've been four or five. It wasn't.
"We'll certainly take the 1-0 and we have something to build upon now."
Terry flung himself in the way of a Sebastien Bassong shot to help the Blues take just a third clean sheet of the season, and added: "Defensively it's great to get the clean sheet and the defenders get the credit for that, but great work from the wide men tracking back and working as a team."