England - Premier LeagueStarWelcome to the Turboscores match preview of the upcoming match between Nottingham Forest and Chelsea, taking place on Sunday, 01 January 2023, at The City Ground in Nottingham.
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Nottingham Forest, Recent FormAfter a crushing 3-0 away loss to Manchester United, the Nottingham Forest squad will need to dig deep to build confidence among their squad. They achieved 34% possession in that match and had 8 strikes at goal, with 3 hitting the target, up against Manchester United's tally of 16 efforts at goal, 8 of which were on target.
While they have been reasonably effective at circumventing their opponents defence, scoring 4 in their last 6 games, it's largely been tit for tat with their own defence proving to be equally ineffectual, conceding 10, and leading to valuable points being dropped. With just 2 clean sheets in the last 6 matches at home, Steve Cooper will be worried about the defensive frailties within his team of late. They have not found any consistency in front of goal this season, having been unable to find the back of the net in 8 of their 16 league matches this season.
It's been a mixed run of form at The City Ground for Forest recently, with 2 wins and 2 defeats in their last 6 home games.
Chelsea, Recent FormChelsea will be very happy having secured 3 points in their last match with a significant 2-0 home win against Bournemouth. In that game they had 60% possession and managed 15 attempts on goal, with 5 on target, compared to Bournemouth who had 9 attempts and 4 on target.
They may consider themselves adept at breaking through their opponent's defences, having scored 4 goals in their last 6 outings, but they have had their own defensive frailties to worry about, having conceded 7 and seen valuable points lost. On the road, they are showing great consistency in finding the back of the net, having scored in 4 of their last 6 away games.
Having drawn 2 of their last 6 games they have at least put some points on the table, but they will not be overly happy with only 1 win.
Mason Mount has scored 2 goals in the last 6 away games and will be looking to add more in this fixture against Nottingham Forest.
Last time these two teams met in the league it resulted in an unsurprising 1-3 win for Chelsea.
The stats show that in the last 4 meetings between The Blues and their rivals, Forest, the former have conceded at least one goal.
Forest has lost the last 2 times they've faced Chelsea in the league.
Forest manager Steve Cooper has some team selection issues to consider ahead of this match. Giulian Biancone (Cruciate ligament), Morgan Gibbs-White (Knock), Dean Henderson (Personal reasons), Cheikhou Kouyaté (Hamstring), Moussa Niakhaté (Hamstring) and Omar Richards (Leg) are all currently out of contention for this game.
Graham Potter has a number of injury concerns in his Chelsea squad to contend with: Armando Broja (Knee), Ben Chilwell (Hamstring), Wesley Fofana (Knee), N'Golo Kanté (Hamstring), Mateo Kovačić (Personal reasons), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Calf) and Hakim Ziyech (Personal reasons)
Nottingham Forest Playing at home | Chelsea Playing away from home | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.3 | Goals scored | 0.9 |
| 1.4 | Goals conceded | 1.4 |
| 33' | Time first goal scored | 32' |
| 35' | Time first goal conceded | 28' |
| 2.8 | Yellow cards | 2 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0.1 |
| 3.9 | Subs used | 4.6 |
| 1-0 | Biggest victory | 2-0 |
| 2-0 | Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
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