Chelsea appointed Frank Lampard as their new manager this summer but he has not been able to sign any new players due to the transfer embargo.
While the Blues have brought in Christian Pulisic and Mateo Kovacic but they also have had to part ways with Eden Hazard who went on to join Real Madrid.
And it looks like the absence of a top-quality striker is really hampering the plans of Frank Lampard.
The Blues have been struggling to score goals during the first three games of the new season and up until this weekend, their two strikers had managed to net only a single goal between them.
While Frank Lampard has time and again said that he has full faith in both Giroud and Abraham but according to Paul Merson, the lack of an out and out goalscorer is something that will trouble the team up until the final day of the season.
Merson said: “The longer the game went on and they did not get the second goal – after what happened on Wednesday night with extra time and the journey – it was always going to be difficult.
“It is not Frank’s fault they have a transfer embargo, that is how he got the job – if Chelsea did not have one, they would have gone out and bought a forward.
“At the moment, firepower wise, I just do not think they have a cutting edge. A team who dominated those games against Man Utd and Leicester would have won them quite comfortably.
“But they just have to live with the fact they will not blow teams away as they do not have that prolific goal scorer.
“Put it this way: if Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had been playing up front for Chelsea, they would have had six points.
“And that is why I worry about Chelsea getting in the top four as when you look at who they are competing with for the top four, it is that firepower that separates them.
“It is just two games gone, but they did tire in the second half – they just needed that second goal and if they get that, they run away with it.
“Mason Mount is in the team because he can play and carry his own, not because he is a nice lad and Frank likes him. He has done great and is only going to get better.”
