Only João Pedro (15) had fewer touches for Chelsea in the first half than Alejandro Garnacho (18).

Ineffective. ❌

🔗 Statman Dave

📸 - ENZO MARESCA CELEBRATING!

⚡️ N E T O ⚽️

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⚽ JAMESSSS

😲 Chelsea red cards this season:

🟥 Malo Gusto vs. Nottm Forest
🟥 Enzo Maresca vs. @Liverpool_Always
🟥 João Pedro vs. @Benfica
🟥 Trevoh Chalobah vs. Brighton
🟥 Robert Sánchez vs. @ManchesterUnited

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🔵 Josh Acheampong’s stats vs. Nottingham Forest 🌳:

— 34/36 passes completed
— 6x possession won
— 4/6 duels won
— 3 clearances
— 2 interceptions
— 2 touches in opp. box
— 1 shot
— 1 goal
— Clean sheet

The perfect performance! 🤩👏

[Stats via squawkafootball]

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𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒:

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STARTING XI:

Sanchez - 7: Made a brilliant save from a header in the second half. Solid display overall.

James - 9 [MOTM]: Goal and an assist in a display littered with quality and composure on and off the ball.

Chalobah - 7: Sloppy first half in his passing but showed much more composure second half.

Acheampong - 8.5: Didn’t put a foot wrong, kept Awoniyi quiet and scored a perfectly placed header to give Chelsea the lead.

Cucurella - 8: Another solid performance from the Spaniard who was never really put under any pressure.

Lavia - 6: Struggled to get going, looking a bit rusty.

Gusto - 6: Sloppy passing at the start and grew into the game until his silly second-yellow.

Santos - 6: Another who never really got going - didn’t manage to impose himself physically although should’ve scored in the first half.

Garnacho - 5.5: Kept going up against Williams but never really got the better of him.

Neto - 9: Showed too much pace and quality when getting to byline in lead up to first goal, followed by his free-kick that was too much for Sels. Showing real consistency.

Joao Pedro - 8: Kept the ball ever so well even when struggling for service in the first half.

SUBSTITUTES:

Caicedo - 7: Didn’t have much involvement but his presence alone gave Chelsea much more steel.

Gittens - 6: Didn’t do much on the ball, came clutch defensively on an occasion though.

Guiu - 7.5: Gave a real injection of pace and purpose to the attack - helping lessen the burden on Pedro too. Solid cameo.

Estevao - 6.5: Looked ever so exciting on the ball again.

Tosin - N/A

Thoughts? 🔵⬇️

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🗣️ Enzo Maresca on Chelsea’s 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest [A] in the Premier League:

🤝 “First half we struggled a little bit.

“Off the ball we were good, but on the ball we made some mistakes and conceded chances to them.

“My message at half-time was the way we were pressing was good, but on the ball we were not good enough. We were sloppy in the build-up. Second half we adjusted something tactically and we were better.

“For sure we can do better in terms of the red card, that was a mistake at 3-0, we can avoid that, but at the same time the desire from the players not to concede a goal was important also. In the last four or five minutes they were shouting to each other, ‘don’t concede, don’t concede’.“

🔝 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

“At the moment it’s about protecting players. We already knew Romeo [Lavia] was not going to play 90 minutes. The plan was 45 minutes for Romeo. Moi [Caicedo] cannot play 90 minutes, so the decision was to start with Moi or Romeo. Romeo needs a boost, needs to start a game, so that was planned.

“[Alejandro] Garna did a fantastic game against Liverpool, so was good to give him another chance. Jamie [Gittens] was okay when he was on. Marc Guiu was good.

“Also, we planned the game expecting them in a back four, not back five. Joao Pedro is better as a nine against a back four, not a back five. If you remember West Ham away and Fulham at home, we played Liam Delap against a back five. So at half-time we changed, and we were better.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

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