By Humberto Viera
Chelsea experienced one of their most bitter afternoons of the season this Monday after being defeated 1-3 by a Nottingham Forest team that, despite having its mind set on the Europa League semi-finals,It prevented the shortcomings of a project adrift.
Without a coach after the recent dismissal of Liam Rosenior and with Callum McFarlane as interim, the London team chained their sixth consecutive defeat in the Premier Leaguea negative streak that they have not been able to break since last March 4.
Just in the second minute, Taiwo Awoniyi took advantage of a cross from Dilane Bakwa to open the scoring with a header. The nightmare continued when Malo Gusto committed an avoidable penalty on Awoniyi himself; After the VAR review, Igor Jesus did not forgive from the spot to make it 0-2.
Before half-time, the match was stopped by a chilling clash of heads between Zach Abbott and Jesse Derry that ended with the Chelsea youngster being stretchered off. On the resumption of that play, Cole Palmer wasted the opportunity to close the gap by missing a penalty against Matz Sels.
In the second half, far from reacting, Chelsea saw how Awoniyi sealed his particular double to seal the match. The atmosphere of misfortune was completed with a new medical incident: a strong collision between goalkeeper Robert Sánchez and Morgan Gibbs-White that forced both to finish the game with heavy bandages.
Already in injury time, Joao Pedro scored an aesthetically impeccable bicycle kick goal, but it was insufficient to alter destiny of a Chelsea that wanders around ninth position with forty eight points.
With this result, Chelsea mathematically say goodbye to the possibility of reaching fifth place. Their remote hopes of playing in the Champions League now depend on an external scam: they need Aston Villa to finish fifth and win the Europa League so that sixth place grants a ticket to the top European competition.
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