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2¹ ANTONY hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area. 4¹ GOAL!! A short corner was knocked out to SCAMACCA who flicked the ball into the net. (1-0 Nottingham Forest) 8¹ GOAL!! A cross from CHRISTENSEN was headed away by SHELVEY only for LUKAKU to fire the ball back into the box for ANTONY to force over the line. (1-1) 10¹ The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from FERNÁNDEZ dropped just over. 13¹ A brilliant shot from SHELVEY was dealt with by a good parry from DIEGO PIÑEIRO. 16¹ LUKAKU blasted a looping shot over from just outside the area. 23¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in SCAMACCA driving a low shot over. 25¹ A free-kick from PEDRO GONÇALVES flew just wide. 30¹ A accurate pass bobbled toward KOULIBALY and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide. 37¹ GOAL!! A swerving inswinging corner was forced in at the near post by MARC CUCURELLA. (2-1 Chelsea) 43¹ An outswinging corner was fired into the arms of MIGNOLET by GRIEZMANN. 10² A tame strike from LUKAKU bounced agonisingly wide. 15² GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of SCAMACCA who slammed the ball past the helpless Chelsea 'keeper. (2-2) 21² GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with PEDRO GONÇALVES striking the ball into the top corner. (3-2 Chelsea) 23² A corner bobbled toward TOWNSEND who touched an effort just beyond the near post. 25² GROSS snapped at an easy chance. 30² SHELVEY ran onto a wonderful ball from GROSS but fired his effort wide of the goal. 31² PEDRO GONÇALVES fired the ball through a crowd of players but MIGNOLET was a match for it as he dived to his right. 36² SCAMACCA made space on the left and pulled the ball to TAVERNIER who rasped the ball over. 39² ANTONY beat TOWNSEND and hit the ball to PEDRO GONÇALVES who fumbled his shot wide. 41² SCAMACCA rifled an easy chance past the near post. 42² A great effort from MARC CUCURELLA scraped the woodwork.

Chelsea   League position: 10 Home league form: XWLL Overall league form: LXWWXXLX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups DIEGO PIÑEIRO del Álamo 6½ 1 6½ Simon MIGNOLET Joshua KIMMICH 7½ 2 7  James TAVERNIER MARC CUCURELLA Saseta 7½ 3 6  Ivan PERISIC Enzo FERNÁNDEZ 7½ 4 7  Pascal GROSS Andreas CHRISTENSEN 7  5 6½ Kalidou KOULIBALY EDER Gabriel MILITÃO 6½ 6 6½ Moussa NIAKHATÉ ANTONY Matheus 7  7 6½ Jonjo SHELVEY PEDRO António GONÇALVES 6½ 8 6  Andros TOWNSEND (p)Romelu LUKAKU 7  9 6½ Gianluca SCAMACCA(p) (f)Karim BENZEMA 6½ 10 6½ Paul ONUACHU(f) (c)Antoine GRIEZMANN 6½ 11 5½ IAGO Aspas(c) Manager Mason MOUNT    12    Ben DAVIES Timo WERNER    13    Joe WORRALL Bashir HUMPHREYS    14 6  Scott McKENNA MARIO HERMOSO Canseco    15    Ben MEE Ben CHILWELL    16    Sergiño DEST

Nottingham Forest   League position: 20 Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: LLXLLLLL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Chelsea 3 Nottingham Forest 2 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 39,151, Stadium: Stamford Bridge, Referee: Steve Bennett 7½) Antony 8¹, Marc Cucurella 37¹, Pedro Gonçalves 21² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Scamacca 4¹, Scamacca 15²   PerisicóMcKenna 31²         1 4 7 11 6 5 8 4 8 14 16 18 5 2 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: Marc Cucurella Saseta ¶