Chelsea beat Nottingham Forest 3-0 to compound Postecoglu’s woes

Injury-hit Chelsea heaped the unit connected Nottingham Forest manager Ange Postecoglou connected Saturday, surviving a sloppy first-half show earlier turning the screw to triumph 3-0.

Teenager Josh Acheampong headed the visitors up aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional earlier Pedro Neto curled location from a free-kick, wholly changing the complexion of the match.

Postecoglou, sacked by Tottenham successful June, is present winless astatine Forest successful 8 games successful each competitions, which volition further trial the patience of proprietor Evangelos Marinakis.

Forest, who started the time conscionable 1 constituent supra the relegation zone, had a bid of chances to instrumentality the pb successful the archetypal half, acknowledgment mostly to a sloppy antiaircraft show by Chelsea.

But they failed to capitalise and Enzo Maresca’s men grew stronger arsenic the lucifer wore on.

Chelsea were without a agelong database of first-team players including Cole Palmer, Benoit Badiashile and Enzo Fernandez, portion Moises Caicedo started the crippled connected the bench.

Maresca was forced to ticker from the stands astatine the City Ground aft being sent disconnected for his chaotic celebrations successful his team’s triumph against Liverpool earlier the planetary break.

– Forest chances –

Elliot Anderson had an aboriginal accidental to enactment Forest up but chose not to sprout with his near ft erstwhile successful a unsafe presumption and was dispossessed erstwhile helium turned inside.

Morgan Gibbs-White drove implicit from extracurricular the container and had a accidental astatine the acold station moments aboriginal but could not get implicit the precocious ball.

Chelsea themselves had an accidental to instrumentality the pb soon earlier half-time but Andrey Santos skewed his changeable narrowly wide aft Joao Pedro flicked the shot implicit the top, leaving Maresca with his caput successful his hands.

Pedro Neto drove implicit arsenic Chelsea finished the archetypal fractional strongly.

Maresca made a triple alteration astatine the break, bringing connected Caicedo, Jamie Gittens and Marc Guiu and it reaped aboriginal rewards.

The visitors took the pb erstwhile Neto sent successful an inviting transverse for defender Acheampong, who headed location for his archetypal elder extremity successful the 49th minute.

Three minutes aboriginal Chelsea doubled their pb erstwhile Neto curled his free-kick astir the partition of reddish shirts, past the despairing dive of Matz Sels.

Forest had a accidental to propulsion a extremity backmost conscionable aft the hr people but Neco Williams blazed implicit from adjacent scope and Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez did good to support retired a header from Nikola Milenkovic.

Forest substitute Igor Jesus went agonisingly adjacent to pulling a extremity backmost erstwhile his changeable connected the agelong deed the underside of the barroom and bounced down onto the post.

Chelsea skipper Reece James scored precocious to marque it 3-0 connected his 200th quality for the club, firing location from adjacent the punishment spot aft the shot dropped to him pursuing a corner.

That sparked a wide evacuation from the City Ground, leaving Postecoglou pensive connected the touchline.

Chelsea’s Malo Gusto was sent disconnected for a 2nd yellowish paper successful the latest show of ill-discipline from the young squad but triumph lifted them to 4th successful the table, conscionable 2 points down leaders Arsenal.

Postecoglou was defiant astatine his pre-match property league connected Friday, saying if helium is fixed clip astatine a nine it ever ends “with maine and a trophy”.

But chances are moving retired for the Australian to crook things astir astatine Forest, who finished seventh past play nether past manager Nuno Espirito Santo.

Former Burnley and Everton manager Sean Dyche is reportedly successful the framework to regenerate Postecoglou.

Marinakis’s spot was bare with a 4th of the lucifer to play, successful a perchance ominous motion for the Forest boss.

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