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  • 5/30/2025
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00:0037 down one to go Nottingham Forest and Chelsea it all comes down to this the final day of the
00:11Premier League campaign nine months of graft with verdicts on success or otherwise now in the
00:18balance just 90 minutes left to decide who gets to play in the big show next season win this
00:25and top five is assured lose it and it's definitely gone that is simple enough the in-between draw is
00:33what would make things more complicated and would bring other results into the equation his team
00:40doesn't change much sure enough it hasn't changed at all here that's the third game running that this
00:46is the 11 so Callum Hudson-Odoi the former blue has to wait on the bench Chris Wood up top has scored
00:5220 Premier League goals this season there's another ex-Chelsea boy Ola Eina at right back who
00:58has been so key the Chelsea team use of greater interest obviously and possibly greater intrigue
01:05both Chalaba and Lavia left on the bench Tosin therefore stays in defence Caicedo's in midfield
01:11Rhys James starts and also starting Jadon Sancho in a forward line without a striker for obvious reasons
01:19destination Europe for both of these clubs but which one
01:26Sanchez going long early for Noni Madueke you mentioned the wingers versus full backs here
01:35on the pace front I'm not sure how easy that'll be and speaking of which Rhys James is bypassed here
01:41challenge on Gibbs White drops for Alanga
01:44real scare there with the forest skipper who's had such a good season
01:49that's a better ball and awkward to head out
02:01Chelsea have the numbers
02:02Cole Palmer's just drilled that out
02:05and by Eina up by Kukurea Wood is there and there's Colwell a little bit panicky
02:11but Chelsea have the numbers back to deal with it but forest growing in belief here Sam
02:16yeah just the brawn isn't it of Chris Wood that I was just speaking of just keeping it alive in the box
02:21and I think we've known all season and during periods
02:25it's a problem not having a centre forward and I think we're just seeing that at the moment
02:30Nadueke
02:40Palmer
02:41first big chance
02:44and Neto on the stretch couldn't quite connect as he wanted
02:47needed to scuff it
02:48yeah great pass Tosin look at that that's been a feature when he's played this season
02:55and Nadueke
02:57who for me is the most exciting of Chelsea's forward players at the moment
03:01he's the one that's given me a bit of optimism that there could be a chance in the offing
03:05what a ball in
03:06it just arrives at a horrible height
03:09Dominguez
03:14Eina
03:15look out
03:17Chris Wood is in the middle
03:18and if he kept it down
03:24Forest would be in front
03:25just like Neto at the other side
03:27their main man
03:2820 Premier League goals
03:30number 21 would have come right on half time
03:34yeah and Sancho's too concerned with getting his arms behind his back there
03:37has to get out to Olerena to stop that cross coming in
03:40just off his shin
03:41not an easy finish
03:43gets away from his marker and just tries to steer it into the near post
03:47Palmer giving the time to put the ball in
03:55by Murillo
03:58been a good start there
03:59and Neto's in
04:00Colwell must score
04:02and Colwell does
04:03dream start to the second half for Chelsea
04:08the tiny cushion becomes a little more comfortable
04:13Levi Colwell
04:16who lost a playoff final
04:18in heartbreaking circumstances to Nottingham Forest
04:22he never scores
04:25and he'll never score a bigger one than that
04:28or an easier one
04:29I was just concerned for a moment he wasn't going to reach it
04:34or maybe the
04:34assistance flag was going to come to Forest Aid
04:38the first ball was repelled quite easily by Murillo
04:42touch from Cucurea was so problematic for Williams
04:46he makes a little bit of a hash of it
04:48and in turn turns it into the perfect ball
04:50for Neto
04:51steadies himself and deals with the difficult ball really well
04:55to just feed it across the six-yard box
04:57and Colwell with a simple task really
05:00passing it into the unguarded net
05:02Nilenkowicz
05:06Lange for Eina
05:11Wood is in the middle
05:13Olerena's crossing and passing in this second half
05:16for a player
05:16who has been so good for so long this term
05:19has been way off it
05:21thankfully so
05:23Oh free head around the back
05:33Cucurea got something on it
05:36massive scrap
05:38Murillo
05:39Anderson
05:41Wood
05:41and it's powder puffing into the arms of Sanchez
05:45two minutes and stop it's time to go
05:47there comes the nothing but a clever free kick
05:49I think working a block
05:50yeah you can see Yates on Rhys James
05:52because there's three of them
05:54converging on
05:55the Chelsea youngster
05:57or once youngster
05:59Caisedo here
06:08into Parma
06:09space
06:09the kind he's craved all day
06:11and had so little of
06:12shoot say the Blues fans
06:13to Lavia
06:14deflected
06:15as we go to the final minute
06:18at normal time
06:19and we're hearing it'll be eight
06:20added
06:20in 93 and a half minutes
06:25that is a very impressive job done by Chelsea
06:28and it is nearly done
06:30sells though
06:31finds Wood here
06:32and he's had another chance
06:34and he's put that one over the bar too
06:36well done for getting in there
06:38I think that's Rhys James under the bundle
06:40well that's that
06:42that period
06:43this is the period where
06:44don't let them back in
06:46and he
06:46cannot find that type of space
06:48misjudgment by Tosin
06:50it's a combination of the two
06:51and it probably is the forest man
06:53who gets his finish away
06:54but he can't control it
06:56due to those two
06:57scrambling back in
06:58I mean that would have been
06:59a desperate way to concede
07:01and make it unnecessarily nervy
07:04thank goodness
07:05that's gone over the bar
07:06and look at the reaction
07:06huge few days for him
07:11and a huge result here
07:12it's going to be confirmed
07:14any minute by the whistle
07:15of Anthony Taylor
07:15who's become a lucky omen
07:17for Chelsea lately
07:17that'll do it
07:20the Champions League place
07:25goes to those in Chelsea blue
07:27not Garibaldi red
07:29a final day shootout
07:31settled by a Levi Colwell
07:34tapping
07:34an unlikely hero
07:37in this unlikely
07:38late season run
07:39of tense
07:41narrow wins
07:42with clean sheets
07:45forget the style
07:46when it's the run in
07:47Sam Parkin
07:48it's about the substance
07:50when it matters
07:51and Chelsea have had that
07:52today and in recent weeks
07:54what a top performance today
07:56under immense pressure
07:58the perfect game plan
07:59the perfect substitute
08:00you've got to say that
08:02Enzo Maresca
08:03spot on
08:05and we felt
08:06it was going to be
08:07three wins from four
08:08that would do it
08:09and under
08:10enormous scrutiny
08:11pressure
08:12able to achieve it
08:14despite that loss
08:15against Newcastle
08:16in there
08:17the wins over Liverpool
08:18Manchester United
08:19excellent
08:20backs to the wall
08:21got the goal
08:22that mattered
08:22on every occasion
08:25the goals that mattered
08:26in the case of the Liverpool game
08:27but the last two
08:28against Manchester United
08:28again today
08:29both sides of the game
08:30excellent
08:31what a day
08:33what a performance
08:34while everyone
08:35around them in the table
08:36lost their composure
08:37Chelsea
08:38both sides of the game
08:39executed
08:40perfectly
08:41this afternoon
08:4238 Premier League games
08:45played
08:45and it is a UEFA Champions League
08:47finish
08:48for Chelsea Football Club
08:49with all
08:50the attendant
08:51riches
08:52and glamour
08:52and recruitment potential
08:54European football
08:56for Forest
08:56next season too
08:57that is a fine achievement
08:58just not the variety
08:59that they craved
09:01Chelsea will join Liverpool
09:03Arsenal
09:04Manchester City
09:05and
09:06Newcastle
09:07who've snuck in
09:09despite losing
09:11because
09:11of Aston Villa's defeat
09:13it's a great start
09:15to a definitive week
09:17in the Blues campaign
09:18off to Poland
09:19next for that lot
09:20for the conference final
09:21and a day of
09:23major Premier League
09:25permutations
09:25ends
09:26with the one
09:27we wanted
09:28the Blues have done it
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09:31Chelsea
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