Nottingham Forest vs. Chelsea live score: Premier League result, updates, stats, highlights as Colwill puts Blues ahead in UCL race

57 mins: Wood grimaces as he sees the offside flag, having almost volleyed one into the River Trent.

56 mins: Caicedo trips Elanga fairly needlessly to get booked. Hudson-Odoi coming on for Sangare to take on his former club for fans of delicious narrative.

54 mins: Forest look all at sea facing another Chelsea short corner until Sangare boots a clearance at the referee. If Chelsea hadn’t just scored everyone would have found that a lot funnier.

52 mins: Elanga scampers towards the box from the left but Colwill’s there to clear.

50 mins: GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!! Levi Colwill!!!!!

Huge moment for Chelsea in the Champions League race! Corner taken short and Palmer’s teasing delivery is cleared but the ball comes back, Williams can’t clear and Neto prods across goal for the England defender to finish.

48 mins: Chelsea have been camped in the Forest half since the resumption. 

Kickoff: 2nd Half

Off we go again. Who fancies. Forest need to score. If they do, as things stand, they’re heading to the Champions League.

Halftime

We only got one minute more of that. Not sure there was any need for any more. A poor game with two excellent chances that Neto and then Wood could not take. As it stands, Chelsea are heading into the Champions League and Forest heading to the Conference League.

45 mins: Gibbs-White doesn’t make the most of another inviting position as he fails to play in Elanga.

43 mins: Forest should be in front! Lovely, teasing cross from Aina that Wood meets at the near post on the volley. Sanchez makes a nuisance of himself but the key factor is the ball striking Wood on the shin. If he meets that with his boot it’s goal.

40 mins: The good news for these two is Newcastle and Aston Villa are also not doing anything especially useful with their afternoons and are locked at 0-0 with Everton and Manchester United respectively. Manchester City are 1-0 at Fulham and sitting comfortably in third as it stands.

37 mins: Forest work one of those transitions they like on on halfway and Adarabioyo makes a vital interception.

35 mins: Murillo barrels into the Chelsea half, which seems to startle the opposition briefly. His pass to Wood isn’t what it needs to be.

30 mins: Ohhhh, there’s a chance! Palmer pulls out to the right and puts in a fine cross that Neto blooters over the bar from close range.

28 mins: Fernandez wins a free-kick for Chelsea on the right-hand edge of the area. In keeping with a game where we’ve had one shot inside the first half an hour, very little comes of it.

24 mins: Wood discomforting Chelsea now as Sanchez stays in his goal. Colwill clears from inside his six-yard box. Corner to the hosts.

21 mins: Neto bundles pass Williams. No foul. The Forest full-back isn’t happy but that looked like good, old-fashioned shoulder to shoulder. It matters not as Neto fluffs his lines inside the box.

15 mins: Dominguez at the other end now with a backpost header but it’s easy work for Sanchez.

14 mins: Madueke cutting inside trying to find space to shoot but loses his footing as he does and Dominguez makes the block.

10 mins: Neto looks for Sancho as Chelsea break but Murillo deals with the danger.

9 mins: Dominguez plays the underlapping Aina into the Chelsea box. His low cross towards Wood is hacked behind by Colwill. This corner is better but Cucurella clears.

8 mins: Fernandez looks to craft a Chelsea attack and bangs a pass over Sancho’s head and out for a throw-in. Some nerves on both sides, it seems.

5 mins: Forest cavalry up for their first corner of the afternoon. Elanga’s delivery is rancid and volleyed away at the near post.

4 mins: Sangare breaks up play and threads a pass through the Chelsea defence far too easily. Gibbs-White is unusually hesitant, though, and by the time he finds Elanga, the visitors are back to avert the danger.

2 mins: Palmer wins an early corner for Chelsea. It’s taken short to the England star but his cross, intended for Adarabioyo, is cleared.

Kickoff: 1st Half

Anderson gets us underway.

4 mins before kickoff: Here they come. It’s absolutely raucous at the City Ground. The opening exchanges of this feel huge. An early goal against and it will be a massive question of Chelsea’s collective character. They were behind within two minutes on their previous away game at St James’ Park.

15 mins before kickoff: The teams will be with us shortly, so let’s recap Forest’s situation because it’s not as straightforward as Chelsea’s win = UCL equation. A victory would guarantee Nuno’s men at least sixth position at the Blues’ expense. To reach the Champions League places, they must win and hope either of Newcastle or Aston Villa don’t. Newcastle host Everton and Aston Villa are at Manchester United. Theoretically, Forest can finish above Manchester City if Pep Guardiola’s men lose at Fulham, but that would also require a 14-goal swing on goal difference, so let’s put that one aside.

45 mins before kickoff: Viewers watching this game in the UK will notice Sky Sports aren’t at the City Ground for their coverage. This was originally the plan, until Forest refused to accredit Gary Neville to cover the game. It’s all been a bit unseemly to say the least. Neville is an outspoken pundit who can rub people up the wrong way, but his “crime” in this instance was to say that Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis coming onto the pitch after the recent 2-2 draw against Leicester and confronting Nuno was not really the done thing. This shouldn’t be controversial and the conspiratorial babbling from Forest afterwards has been unbecoming of a fine football club and does no one any favours. 

1 hr 5 mins before kickoff: And here’s the Forest side. It’s the same team that beat West Ham, meaning Sangare remains to give a little more heft to the midfield. A knock-on from that is ex-Chelsea youngster Callum Hudson-Odoi has to be content with a place on the bench.

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