{"id":4566,"date":"2026-05-06T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:00:34","slug":"chelseas-european-hopes-hit-by-sixth-consecutive-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4566","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s European hopes hit by sixth consecutive defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t<!-- shortcode box --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode clearfix box   \">\n<div class=\"shortcode col2-1 first\"> <span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westlondonsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Chelsea_FC.svg-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220824 alignright\"\/><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Chelsea 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Jo\u00e3o Pedro (93&#8217;+3)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shortcode col2-1\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westlondonsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/forest70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" class=\"alignright wp-image-170515\"\/>Nottm Forest 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Awoniyi (2\u2032, 52\u2032)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Jesus (pen, 15\u2032)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- \/shortcode box --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Chelsea suffered their sixth successive Premier League loss \u2013 their worst run of results since 1993 \u2013 in a dismal display at Stamford Bridge against Nottingham Forest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two goals by Taiwo Awoniyi and a penalty from Igor Jesus secured a comfortable win for Vitor Pereira\u2019s men. Joao Pedro netted a late reply for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer missed a penalty for Chelsea, while teammates Jesse Derry \u2013 making his Premier League debut \u2013 and goalkeeper Robert Sanchez were both forced off with head injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues now sit ninth in the league table after another blow to their hopes of securing a European place.<\/p>\n<p>Relegation-threatened Forest made the perfect start with only a minute gone.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Dilane Bakwa managed to slip past Marc Cucurella before his cross found unmarked Awoniyi, who headed into the net from eight yards.<\/p>\n<p>Forest were then awarded a VAR-assisted penalty in the 14th minute when Malo Gusto pulled the jersey of Awonyi. Jesus calmly converted to double the lead for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea won a penalty a minute before half-time when there was a clash of heads between Forest\u2019s Zach Abbot and Derry.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Derry required extensive treatment before being stretchered off the pitch, before Palmer\u2019s subsequent spot-kick was well saved by Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels.<\/p>\n<p>Derry was taken to hospital as a precaution and the club later issued a positive update, saying the youngster \u201cis conscious, talking and undergoing precautionary checks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Forest made it 3-0 on 52 minutes, following a VAR check for offside. Awoniyi was alert to tap the ball home from a low cross by Morgan Gibbs-White for his second of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea were forced to make a change of goalkeeper when Filip Jorgensen replaced Sanchez in the 65th minute, when the latter suffered a worrying head knock after colliding with Gibbs-White.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues managed a consolation goal in added time \u2013 Pedro produced an acrobatic kick from seven yards after a headed assist from Cucurella.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Chelsea: <\/strong>Sanchez (Jorgensen 65), Cucurella, Adarabioyo (Colwill 46), Chalobah, Gusto, Lavia (Santos 57), Caicedo, Derry (Delap 45+8), Fenandez, Palmer, Pedro<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea 1 Jo\u00e3o Pedro (93&#8217;+3) Nottm Forest 3 Awoniyi (2\u2032, 52\u2032)Jesus (pen, 15\u2032) Chelsea suffered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}