Nottingham Forest face a tough trip to London to face in-form Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. Follow along with the best facts and live Opta data in our Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest stats page.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest stats from their Premier League meeting at Stamford Bridge.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own in-game and post-match analysis.
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Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest: Pre-Match Facts
- Chelsea have won just one of their four Premier League meetings with Nottingham Forest since the latter returned to the top-flight in 2022 (D2 L1), though it was a 3-2 victory in the last such game in May.
- Nottingham Forest won this exact fixture 1-0 last season – only once have they ever won consecutive away league games against Chelsea, doing so on their first two visits to Stamford Bridge in 1907 and 1908.
- Since their return to the competition in 2022, no team has lost more Premier League away games in London than Nottingham Forest (10). They’ve lost each of their last four in the capital, conceding 3+ goals each time, though their solitary win in London in this time was at Chelsea last season.
- Chelsea have won nine of their last 11 Premier League games (D1 L1), netting at least twice in eight of those nine victories. Indeed, the Blues are the top scorers in the league this season (15), and also have the highest shot conversion rate (20.3%).
- Nottingham Forest have earned 13 points from their last five Premier League away games (W4 D1), as many as they had in their previous 27 combined (W2 D7 L18). They’re looking to go unbeaten in six consecutive top-flight away games for the first time since February-November 1995 (12).
- No side have faced fewer shots on target in the Premier League this season than Nottingham Forest (18, level with Man City). Indeed, their average of three shots on target faced per game is their lowest on record in a single league campaign (since 2013-14).
- No side’s Premier League games have produced more goals than Chelsea’s so far this season (22 – F15 A7), while Nottingham Forest’s have seen the fewest (11 – F6 A5).
- Since his debut for Chelsea in September last season (which was a home defeat to Nottingham Forest), Cole Palmer has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other player (43 – 28 goals, 15 assists). He’s averaging a goal or assist every 73 minutes in that time, the best rate of any Chelsea player in Premier League history (min. 500 minutes).
- Jadon Sancho has provided an assist in all three of his Premier League games for Chelsea so far (3 in total), already matching his best assist total in a single campaign in the competition (3 in 2021-22 and 2022-23). The only players to register an assist in each of their first four games for a club are Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) and Chris Waddle (Sunderland).
- Nottingham Forest’s James Ward-Prowse has been involved in four goals in his last five Premier League starts against Chelsea (2 goals, 2 assists), netting the winner in his last start at Stamford Bridge with Southampton in April 2023.
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