Chelsea and Nottingham Forest players suffer injuries after second scary head clash

Nottingham Forest star Morgan Gibbs-White and Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez both suffered head injuries in their Premier League clash at Stamford Bridge

Morgan Gibbs-White and Robert Sanchez were both forced off with nasty head injuries in Chelsea’s Premier League clash against Nottingham Forest. That incident was the second serious clash off heads with Zach Abbott and Jesse Derry taken off earlier on after a scary collision with the latter stretchered off.

Sky Sports later confirmed he had been taken to hospital for “precautionary tests” with the teenager seeing his senior debut end in unfortunate circumstances. The Gibbs-White and Sanchez clash arrived midway through the second half as the former attempted to run onto a loose ball.

Both players were treated by physios and had cuts on their heads bandaged over. The duo were taken off after their collision with Gibbs-White appearing to be uneasy on his feet.

If he has suffered a concussion, he will be absent for Forest’s next two games due to concussion protocols, with the first of those a huge Europa League semi-final second leg against Aston Villa. Chris Wood came on as his replacement with Filip Jorgensen in between the sticks for the final stages for Chelsea.

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Vitor Pereira had left Wood, Gibbs-White and Elliot Anderson out of his starting XI with their huge European knockout tie to come later this week. The latter duo and Nikola Milenkovic were all brought on at half-time with Forest in a commanding position after early goals from Taiwo Awoniyi and Igor Jesus.

Cole Palmer had a chance to halve the deficit with a penalty awarded after that brutal clash of heads between Derry and Abbott as the Blues winger got to the ball first.

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However, Matz Sels saved his spot-kick which saw Chelsea’s wait for a Premier League goal, which has extended to over eight hours, continue.

Before his withdrawal, Gibbs-White was slipped through and picked out Awoniyi to put Forest three goals in front. The striker looked to be offside but the goal was confirmed after a VAR check. Joao Pedro was not as fortunate with the Brazil international seeing his goal disallowed later on in the clash after he was picked out by Marc Cucurella.

Selz prevented Palmer from scoring again with a smart save but he could do nothing about Pedro’s impressive overhead kick deep into added time. Despite getting on the score sheet, the Blues were unable to find any more late goals which saw them remain without a Premier League win since early March.

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