Benitez´s men were held by Fulham in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, four days after the draw with champions Manchester City.[break]
And the Spaniard admitted that marked a disappointing start to his time with the west London club, where he has been appointed as interim manager until the end of the season.
Benitez insisted there were positives from the Fulham stalemate but he added: "You cannot be satisfied when you haven´t won these games.
Fulham´s Martin Jol (L) and Chelsea´s Rafael Benitez. Photo: AFP
"City are a top side, a team with a lot of options. "Today (against Fulham) I saw a lot of positive things, sustaining the attacks and regaining the ball very high. I didn´t like the two chances we gave away on the counter-attack, and when we didn´t move the ball too quickly, but it´s a question of time.
"We´ve only had a few training sessions. We need more time.
"The main thing is to win games. If we do we´ll be there and we can win competitions. We need to start doing that and the confidence will come back."
Chelsea have now gone six league games without a win and their problems in front of goal against Fulham were reflected in another frustrating performance from Fernando Torres.
The forward, who flourished under Benitez at Liverpool, had few opportunities and has now failed to score in almost 11 hours of Premier League action, a run the new Chelsea boss also put down to a lack of confidence.
"It´s a question of confidence," Benitez explained. "He´s not scoring goals, so it´s confidence. But it´s not easy when you´re playing against lots of defenders. You could see how they defended against him.
But it´s not just a case of Fernando... You saw how they defended with a lot of bodies there. It wasn´t easy for him, or Hazard or Oscar.
"We were on top of them, regaining the game higher up the pitch, and might have won it in the last minute."
Chelsea have now slipped seven points behind league leaders Manchester United but Benitez insisted the European champions remain in the domestic title race.
"It´s still a long way to go," he said. "We have to keep going. We´ll have chances. Remember last season when City were ahead and it was easy. Then they needed to win their last game.
"It´s a long, long competition. Why can´t we (win the league)?"
The Chelsea supporters were less vocal in their criticism of the appointment of Benitez on Wednesday than they had been last weeked and the new man at the helm was adamant his players remain unaffected by the tensions between fans and manager.
"If you talk with them, and we do all the time, they´re quite happy with the things we´re trying to achieve. It´s a question of time now.".
Fulham manager Martin Jol believed Dimitar Berbatov was the stand-out player and that his side could easily have claimed all three points in this derby.
"At 80 minutes we had two possibilities to ´make it´," Jol said. "I´m not disappointed to only get a draw away from home, but disappointed we didn´t make more of those chances.
"Berbatov was almost unplayable and linked our play, and we had a few chances. After the game everyone said Berbatov was fantastic, and he was, but the other players worked every so hard.
And the Dutchman added: "I knew we are a difficult team for them to play against. If you keep a clean sheet... they have to take initiative, and we could break them time after time."
Ferguson ready for United, City title slog
MANCHESTER, Nov 29: Alex Ferguson predicts a long, hard Premier League title race with champions Manchester City after his Manchester United team opened up a seven-point gap over rivals Chelsea.
Table-toppers United ground out a 1-0 victory over West Ham at Old Trafford thanks to Robin van Persie scoring the fastest goal of the Premier League season to date, after only 33 seconds.
It was only the third clean sheet United have kept in domestic football this season and ended a worrying trend of the team having conceded first in nine of their opening 13 league games.
And while it was a far from vintage performance, it was a vital one given that City´s victory at Wigan kept the defending champions just one point behind.
"The three points means we´re still ahead in the league and, with Chelsea drawing, it draws us away from them a little bit further," said veteran United manager Ferguson. "But City are on our tails. It´s going to be a long season.
"The importance of winning 1-0 in certain games is your opponents know the resilience is there.
"If you look at some of the really important one-nils we´ve had, go back to beating Newcastle when they were nine points clear of us (in 1996).
"Our 1-0 that night won us the league. There are important 1-0 victories. We´ve had many of them."
Given the scarcity of clean sheets for United this term, the fact his side were able to keep West Ham at bay for such a long period gave Ferguson as much pleasure as the large points cushion he enjoys over European champions Chelsea and their new manager Rafael Benitez.
"It is particularly hard, when you take the lead after one minute, to keep a clean sheet over the remaining 90-plus minutes, with time added on," said Ferguson. "But in the main I thought we defended very well."
Ferguson paid particular tribute to young Brazilian full-back Rafael and fit-again central defender Chris Smalling, who was starting a game for just the third time this season.
"Chris came into the team and did very well after a few weeks out and Jonny Evans was magnificent," he said. "There were a lot of plus points tonight, particularly with the defending because you have to against West Ham because they are such a handful. We had to be at our best for the whole 90 minutes.
"Rafael is maturing, he´s 22 years of age now. He came here as a young boy, he was in the first team at 17-18, and made a lot of rash mistakes because he was such an enthusiastic boy. He is maturing and learning now."
Van Persie now has nine goals in just 12 league starts this term and Alan Shearer and Cristiano Ronaldo´s joint record for a 38-match Premier League season -- 31 goals -- will be under threat if he maintains this form.
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce certainly believes that, whether van Persie sets records or not, his goals could see United to the title.
"He´s going to score 20-odd, maybe 30 goals," he said. "In the end, that´s normally the difference, if you sort your defensive side out.
"It´s not so long ago, a couple of seasons, that Man United went 14 games without conceding a goal and that won them the league.
"Van Persie is a quality player, no doubt about that, though we kept him quiet tonight.
"United have got lots of players who will have good spells, lot of players who will come up trumps, and that´s what makes them so good."