Chelsea faltered again after being compensated by the host Nottingham Forest 1-1. The result also created a bad score for the blues.
Chelsea visited the City Ground Stadium in the match which ended on Monday (2/1/2023) at morning WIB. The West London side opened the scoring through Raheem Sterling early in the first half, before Serge Aurier scored Nottingham’s reply to force the match to finish equally strong.
With these results Chelsea failed to carry on the positive momentum after beating Bournemouth 2-0 just after Christmas. That means the Blues have won just once in their last seven Premier League games after winning their first three in the Graham Potter era.
Even worse, Chelsea are still perched in the center of the board Premier League standings with the acquisition of 25 points from 16 games, seven points adrift of Manchester United in the first four. to choose declared, this is Chelsea’s lowest number of points at the same stage since the 2015/2016 season, when they finished tenth.
“Overall it was a terrible performance for us,” Potter said BBC. “You have to give Forest credit because they did their best at what they do best.”
“We weren’t good enough when we took control. It wasn’t easy to create chances against Forest because they defended deep and attacked the gap well. We can improve on that.”
“We struggled in the second half so in the end it wasn’t a happy performance, we should have accepted a point but we’re disappointed,” said Potter after the equaliser. Chelsea by markas Nottingham Forest.
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