Full Time: Nottm Forest 1-1 Chelsea
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 1-1 Chelsea (Aurier, 63)
It's been coming - but not many people would have expected Aurier to be the man to get that goal!
Forest swing in a corner from the right that Chelsea do a bad job of clearing, with the ball bobbling around for a few moments before finding Aurier.
The right-back controls the ball before volleying it under Kepa to give Forest a deserved leveller.
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Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
The half-time stats show Chelsea have dominated possession but struggled to make that dominance count when it comes to goalscoring opportunities.
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
Sky Sports' Danyal Khan at the City Ground:
"Chelsea have controlled the game really well since the goal - after the early flurry by Forest, thay experienced defence of Silva, Koulibaly and Azpilicueta have tightened things up again.
"Forest haven’t really had a sniff - and the crowd are growing increasingly frustrated.
"It will be interesting to see what Steve Cooper does in the second half - I wonder if he’ll push his team further up to press because at the moment the game is just passing them by."
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
45+2: HALF-TIME!
Chelsea take a 1-0 lead into the break after a 45 minutes short on chances.
Johnson should perhaps have done better when one-on-one with Kepa, before Sterling tucked home the only goal of the game so far after a strange deflection off Boly.
Forest's unhappiness with referee Bankes - and some flashpoints between the two sets of players - has otherwise dominated the narrative at the City Ground.
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
42: YELLOW! This game is feisty!
Yates is rightly booked for hanging onto Zakaria after the Chelsea midfielder rolled him, with the Swiss international then squaring up to his Forest counterpart.
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
41: Chants of "Derby reject" greet Mount as he takes a corner in front of the Forest fans.
The home supporters obviously haven't forgotten the season-long loan spell the England international spent with their Midlands rivals a few years back.
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher:
"Brilliant from Thiago Silva. He reads the situation."
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
38: Sterling again gets robbed in a dangerous position, allowing Forest to break, but Silva bails out his team-mate with a brilliant tackle as the hosts charged towards the Chelsea box.opy lin
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
37: Huge cheers from the home fans as referee Bankes awards them a free-kick for a foul by Silva on the touchline.
The atmosphere at the City Ground has certainly picked up after being quietened by that Sterling goal.
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
34: Another one for the Forest fans to get their teeth into as Mount flies into a challenge on Johnson on the touchline.
At first glance it looked as though the Chelsea midfielder wiped out his opponent, but no free-kick was given.
Mount and Cucurella had some choice words for Johnson as play went on, too.
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Chelsea
31: You can't buy experience! Silva knows he has no chance of beating Johnson for pace, but he's chasing after a long ball aimed at the Forest forward before the pass has even been played in order to get there first.
Silva then gets himself between Johnson and the ball to earn a free-kick, which has the Forest fans up in arms.
Koulibaly could perhaps take note from his defensive partner...
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