Chelsea 0-1 Nottingham Forest: Anthony Elanga's first Forst goal seals victory

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Anthony Elanga celebrates scoring for Nottingham Forest against Chelsea

Substitute Anthony Elanga scored his archetypal Nottingham Forest extremity to unafraid a hard-fought Premier League triumph implicit Chelsea astatine Stamford Bridge.

Summer signing Elanga, introduced successful first-half added clip pursuing an wounded to Danilo, struck soon aft the interruption erstwhile helium raced connected to Taiwo Awoniyi's walk and slotted home.

Nicolas Jackson missed a glorious accidental to equalise wrong the last 10 minutes, firing implicit from wrong the six-yard container aft being teed up by Raheem Sterling.

Jackson had earlier been denied by a last-ditch artifact by Willy Boly, portion £40m deadline time signing Cole Palmer was introduced by brag Mauricio Pochettino, arsenic Chelsea chased a response.

But contempt dominating possession, territory and chances, the hosts were punished for failing to instrumentality their opportunities by a resolute Forest.

A 2nd triumph from 4 games lifted Steve Cooper's visitors to ninth successful the table, portion Chelsea fell to 11th successful the aboriginal standings.

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Chelsea

Squad number1Player nameSánchez
Squad number2Player nameDisasi
Squad number6Player nameThiago Silva
Squad number26Player nameColwill
Squad number27Player nameGusto
Squad number23Player nameGallagher
Squad number25Player nameCaicedo
Squad number21Player nameChilwell
Squad number7Player nameSterling
Squad number8Player nameFernández
Squad number15Player nameJackson

Squad number10Player nameMudryk
Squad number11Player nameMadueke
Squad number20Player namePalmer
Squad number29Player nameMaatsen

Nottingham Forest

Squad number1Player nameTurner
Squad number30Player nameBoly
Squad number4Player nameWorrall
Squad number26Player nameMcKenna
Squad number24Player nameAurier
Squad number5Player nameMangala
Squad number22Player nameYates
Squad number43Player nameAina
Squad number28Player nameDanilo
Squad number10Player nameGibbs-White
Squad number9Player nameAwoniyi

Squad number3Player nameNuno Tavares
Squad number8Player nameKouyaté
Squad number11Player nameWood
Squad number21Player nameElanga
Squad number29Player nameMontiel

Line-ups

Chelsea

Formation 3-4-2-1

1Sánchez
2Disasi
6Thiago Silva
26Colwill
27GustoSubstituted forMudrykat 77'minutes
23GallagherBooked astatine 43minsSubstituted forPalmerat 62'minutes
25CaicedoSubstituted forMaatsenat 77'minutes
21ChilwellBooked astatine 31minsSubstituted forMaduekeat 62'minutes
7Sterling
8Fernández
15JacksonBooked astatine 36mins

Substitutes

3Cucurella
10Mudryk
11Madueke
16Ugochukwu
20Palmer
28Petrovic
29Maatsen
36de Souza Eugênio
47Bergström

Nottm Forest

Formation 3-4-2-1

1TurnerBooked astatine 90mins
30Boly
4Worrall
26McKenna
24AurierSubstituted forMontielat 72'minutes
5MangalaSubstituted forTavaresat 72'minutesBooked astatine 86mins
22YatesBooked astatine 61mins
43AinaBooked astatine 41minsSubstituted forKouyatéat 73'minutes
28DaniloSubstituted forElangaat 45+3'minutes
10Gibbs-White
9AwoniyiSubstituted forWoodat 65'minutes

Substitutes

3Tavares
8Kouyaté
11Wood
18Felipe
19Niakhaté
21Elanga
29Montiel
34Horvath
41Aguilera

Referee:Tim Robinson

Attendance:39,820

Live Text

Match ends, Chelsea 0, Nottingham Forest 1.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 0, Nottingham Forest 1.
Matt Turner (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellowish card.
Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Chelsea) close footed changeable from the close broadside of the container misses to the left. Assisted by Axel Disasi.
Attempt saved. Anthony Elanga (Nottingham Forest) close footed changeable from a hard space connected the near is saved successful the apical near corner. Assisted by Cheikhou Kouyaté.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ryan Yates.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ryan Yates.
Attempt saved. Anthony Elanga (Nottingham Forest) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is saved successful the bottommost near corner. Assisted by Scott McKenna.
Attempt blocked. Ian Maatsen (Chelsea) near footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Cole Palmer.
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Ryan Yates (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt blocked. Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Ian Maatsen.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Matt Turner.
Attempt saved. Thiago Silva (Chelsea) close footed changeable from a hard space connected the close is saved successful the bottommost close corner. Assisted by Enzo Fernández with a cross.
Nuno Tavares (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Noni Madueke (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Nuno Tavares (Nottingham Forest).
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Matt Turner (Nottingham Forest).
Attempt missed. Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) close footed changeable from precise adjacent scope is conscionable a spot excessively high.

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