At Bournemouth, the mid-table Blues snapped a nine-game losing streak.
In order to build on a long-overdue triumph and start closing the considerable gap to the Premier League's top teams, according to Frank Lampard, Chelsea must develop into "killers" in attack.
The mid-table Blues defeated Bournemouth 3-1 on Saturday to snap a nine-match losing streak, which included six straight losses since Lampard was reappointed.
At Vitality Stadium, Conor Gallagher gave the visitors the lead with a header. However, after Matias Vina tied the score, the visitors were mainly impotent going forward until late goals from Benoit Badiashile and Joao Felix snapped the long dry spell.
Chelsea's potential this season is limited to a top-half finish, but they will aim to be competing for Champions League qualification at the very least next year.
The club has already spent more than £600 million on transfers since Todd Boehly's takeover, but interim manager Lampard, who is set to depart Stamford Bridge in the summer, believes the Blues must develop a vicious streak in order to achieve that.
Regarding the south coast's victory, he observed, "We dominated a lot of the game.
Without the killer instinct, we frequently ran into their penalty area in the opening period and committed numerous overloads on the side of the field.
"And I think you have to be more killers at the top end of the pitch as this team develops or as we add to the squad," he continued.
"That is what you will see all across the top half of the table, if you look at it. We don't have that right now. But you saw some good individual efforts that went in the right direction.
Chelsea, a two-time champion of Europe, is currently in 11th place, a stunning 40 points behind the league's leader Manchester City and far from the top four.
Traveling supporters, who had earlier chanted insults at American businessman Boehly, rejoiced in the long-awaited victory with the self-deprecating cry, "We are staying up."
After a disastrous first season in charge, Lampard predicted that the club's owners would eventually be prosperous.
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