Despite defeat to Rangers yesterday, Chelsea No2 Steve Clarke says management were delighted with the performances of their new signings.
Goals from Nacho Novo and Filip Sebo - who netted just twice during his debut season at Rangers last term - secured a 2-0 win for Walter Smith's men in front of a near-capacity crowd at Ibrox.
Chelsea will now dissect the work-out against Rangers before travelling to Denmark to face Brondby in their final friendly on Tuesday before resuming competitive action when they face Manchester United in the Community Shield on August 5.
"We have to think about the match on Tuesday," said Clarke.
"We have to go away and assess this game, take what we need to take from it and hopefully win the match on Tuesday and go into the Community Shield in a positive frame of mind.
"There were pleasing aspects of the game against Rangers, although the result was disappointing. As a club we don't like to lose any match but, at this stage of the season, there are other priorities.
"We don't select easy games for pre-season. If we want to win 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, we can go to other places and find easy games. The matches we play are difficult matches.
"We played in Feyenoord on Wednesday night, it's a difficult place to go. Ibrox is a difficult place to play. Now we go to Brondby on Tuesday, another away match and always difficult.
"We are always looking to challenge our players and give them different aspects. Maybe we will come up against Rangers again in the Champions League so now they have a feel of the place and they understand what it's about."
Jose Mourinho's number two was keen to list the positives Chelsea can take from the trip to Glasgow.
Clarke said: "Ashley Cole came back after a long time out. It was a good training session for John Terry, who hasn't trained for three days with a broken toe, so for him to get 90 minutes at that tempo and that pace was good.
"Claudio Pizarro coming in, he has only trained with the group four times and had another chance to link up with the players and understand what we want from him and how we play. They are all positives.
"I thought Steve Sidwell was the best player today. I thought he was excellent, a good acquisition for us. He strengthens the squad and gives us other options.
"Tal Ben Haim was excellent in the first half. He made a few mistakes towards the end of the game but that's fatigue. Don't forget, he played in three positions. He started the game at centre-back, he played left-back and then we moved him to right-back."
