Nottingham Forest 0-3 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 18 October 2025
Result
Nottingham Forest 0-3 Chelsea
Premier League · Saturday 18 October 2025, 11:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Nottingham Forest 0-3 Chelsea: match report
Nottingham Forest were beaten by Chelsea 0-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 18 October 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Josh Acheampong opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Nottingham Forest did not score. Chelsea scored through Josh Acheampong (49'), Pedro Neto (52') and Reece James (84').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Chelsea received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 17th on 5 points from 7 and Chelsea 7th on 11 points from 7. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 16th with 44 points, and Chelsea 10th with 52.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 5-3-2 and Chelsea in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pedro Neto of Chelsea (8.7), ahead of Reece James (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 3 draws and 2 for Chelsea.
Key events
- 41'Yellow card · Morato
- 49'Goal · Josh Acheampong
- 52'Goal · Pedro Neto
- 54'Yellow card · Malo Gusto
- 80'Yellow card · Ibrahim Sangaré
- 84'Goal · Reece James
- 87'Second yellow · Malo Gusto
- 89'Yellow card · Estêvão
- 90+4'Yellow card · Robert Sánchez
Head-to-head
Team news
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Nottingham Forest line-up (5-3-2)
Matz Sels, Neco Williams, Nikola Milenković, Morato, Murillo, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Douglas Luiz, Ibrahim Sangaré, Elliot Anderson, Morgan Gibbs-White, Taiwo Awoniyi
Chelsea line-up (4-2-3-1)
Robert Sánchez, Reece James, Joshua Kofi Acheampong, Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella, Malo Gusto, Roméo Lavia, Pedro Neto, Andrey Santos, Alejandro Garnacho, João Pedro