Chelsea lost more ground in the battle to get into the top 4 of the Premier League when they were held to a 1-1 draw by a stubborn guy Forest of Nottingham edge.
Raheem Sterling put Chelsea ahead at Forest’s City Ground in the 16th minute, before Serge Aurier equalized for the teams with a stunt in the 63rd minute.
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A mistimed title from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Towards the end of the game, Graham Potter’s team was close to winning, but the visitors couldn’t get through. Now they are seven points behind Manchester United in fourth place.
“I think overall when the game was controlled in the first half, I don’t think we did well enough, our form wasn’t good enough, the ball wasn’t moving fast enough,” Potter said.
“They used to their advantage it’s the environment, the crowd. The second half we didn’t control well enough.”
Forest has an early chance at 10 minutes when Brennan Johnson was sent over on the target of Morgan Gibbs-Whitebut Kepa Arrizabalaga came down well to stop the first shot and follow up.
But Chelsea took the lead as Sterling took full advantage after a strange save from Willy Boly bounce off the bar.
The home side pushed ahead after the break, with Johnson forcing Kepa to make another save in the 50th minute before Gibbs-White put on a superb shot that sent the ball over the bar and safe. .
Forest finally found a goal when Aurier passed the ball past Kepa after Chelsea failed to take the corner, the right-back celebrating the equalizer enthusiastically.
Aubameyang then couldn’t connect to a fizzing Hakim Ziyech passed as Chelsea searched for a second goal, but Potter’s side failed.
