Chelsea ratings: Neto earns 8/10 in win at Forest that got Ange fired

Chelsea got the Premier League backmost underway aft the October planetary interruption connected Saturday arsenic they secured a 3-0 triumph against Nottingham Forest astatine The City Ground that cost Ange Postecoglou his occupation aft conscionable 8 games successful charge.

An array of errors summed up the archetypal fractional for the Blues arsenic they consistently gave the shot distant contempt their dominance of possession, and they were fortunate to spell successful astatine half-time with the scores level aft the location broadside failed to instrumentality vantage of their chances.

Chelsea wasted nary clip successful making changes astatine the interruption arsenic manager Enzo Maresca, who was beryllium successful the stands arsenic helium was serving a suspension, made a triple substitution astatine the break. That determination provided an instant interaction arsenic Josh Acheampong headed Pedro Neto's transverse past Mat Selz minutes into the 2nd half, earlier substitute Marc Guiu won a escaped footwear that Neto converted to marque it 2-0.

Neco Williams should person got Forest backmost into it with a volley that helium smashed over, earlier substitute Igor Jesus connected with a transverse but was denied by the underside of the bar. Chelsea punished Ange Postecoglou's broadside for their wastefulness arsenic they enactment the crippled retired of scope erstwhile Reece James scored connected his 200th quality for the club.

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Positives

Pedro Neto was Chelsea's brightest subordinate successful the archetypal half, earlier helium registered a extremity and an assistance aft the break. The Blues were besides awesome from set-pieces, which proved to beryllium important connected the day.

Negatives

There were excessively galore careless mistakes during build-up made successful the archetypal fractional that a much in-form squad would person punished. A reddish paper for Malo Gusto, with Chelsea 3-0 up successful the last minutes of the match, was besides unnecessary.

Manager standing retired of 10

Enzo Maresca, 6 -- Assistant manager Willy Caballero was successful the dugout arsenic Maresca was forced to ticker from a distance. Both collaborated good to get their broadside implicit the line, but their archetypal gameplan wasn't bully capable successful the archetypal half.

Player ratings (1-10; 10 = best, players introduced aft 70 minutes get nary rating)

GK Robert Sánchez 6 -- The Chelsea goalkeeper got a beardown manus to a header from Nikola Milenkovic successful the 65th minute, which was his archetypal large prevention to marque aft Forest had antecedently missed the people with their efforts.

DF Marc Cucurella 6 -- Aggressive successful the situation but sometimes ha...