{"id":56505,"date":"2025-05-25T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=56505"},"modified":"2025-05-25T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:59:05","slug":"nottingham-forest-vs-chelsea-premier-league-injury-news-match-preview-and-predicted-line-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nottingham-forest-vs-chelsea-premier-league-injury-news-match-preview-and-predicted-line-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea Premier League &#8211; Injury News, Match Preview and Predicted Line-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League&rsquo;s final day promises high drama at the City Ground as Nottingham Forest host Chelsea in a must-win encounter that could determine Champions League qualification. For Chelsea, the equation is straightforward, three points will secure a top-five finish and a return to Europe&rsquo;s elite competition. Chelsea head into the clash just one point ahead of Forest in the standings.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest sit just one point off the Champions League places after their spirited 2-1 victory over West Ham. The Tricky Trees are unbeaten in their last three outings and will be banking on both a home win and favorable results elsewhere to guarantee their ticket for Champions League next season.<\/p><p>Last season&rsquo;s clash saw Chelsea snatch victory with two late goals. But with Forest&rsquo;s passionate home support behind them, the hosts will fancy their chances of a positive result here.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Nuno on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFOCHE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>#NFOCHE<\/a>. &#128483;&#65039;<\/p>&mdash; Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFFC\/status\/1925989429815984502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>May 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nottingham Forest Injury News<\/h2><p>Nottingham Forest head into their crucial final-day clash with Chelsea facing a few injury concerns. Defender Murillo, who played the full 90 minutes against West Ham despite nursing an ankle issue, remains a major doubt after not training all week. If he is unable to feature, fellow Brazilian Morato is expected to partner Milenkovic in central defence.<\/p><p>There is better news regarding Callum Hudson-Odoi. The former Chelsea winger is pushing for a start against his old club and could be a key figure for Forest on Sunday. Meanwhile, Taiwo Awoniyi remains unavailable alongside Eric Moreira.<\/p><p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/premier-league-2024-25-season-proved-to-be-a-drought-ending-season-for-these-3-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>Premier League 2024&ndash;25 Season Proved To Be a Drought-Ending Season for These 3 Teams!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nottingham Forest Predicted Line-Up<\/h3><p>Sels; Aina, Milenkovic, Morato, Williams; Dominguez, Anderson; Elanga, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Wood<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chelsea Injury News <\/h2><p>Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca will be without the suspended Nicolas Jackson for Sunday&rsquo;s decisive clash, but the Blues have received a timely boost. In his pre-match press conference, Maresca confirmed that both Christopher Nkunku and Marc Guiu are back in contention. Jadon Sancho is also available after missing the victory over Manchester United due to loan restrictions.<\/p><p>Reece James is expected to retain his place in defence following an impressive display last time out. However, Maresca remains without Wesley Fofana and Omari Kellyman, who are both sidelined with thigh injuries Meanwhile, Mykhaylo Mudryk continues to serve a doping ban.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chelsea Predicted Line-Up<\/h3><p>Sanchez; James, Chalobah, Colwill, Cucurella; Fernandez, Caicedo; Madueke, Palmer, Neto; Nkunku<\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Nottingham Forest\u2019s passionate home support behind them, the hosts will fancy their chances of a positive result here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":56524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5618],"tags":[4245,4320,1182,6328],"class_list":["post-56505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","tag-chelsea","tag-nottingham-forest","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-top-5-race"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea Premier League - Injury News, Match Preview and Predicted Line-Ups - The Playoffs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With Nottingham Forest&rsquo;s passionate home support behind them, the hosts will fancy their chances of a positive result here.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nottingham-forest-vs-chelsea-premier-league-injury-news-match-preview-and-predicted-line-ups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea Premier League - Injury News, Match Preview and Predicted Line-Ups - The Playoffs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With Nottingham Forest&rsquo;s passionate home support behind them, the hosts will fancy their chances of a positive result here.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nottingham-forest-vs-chelsea-premier-league-injury-news-match-preview-and-predicted-line-ups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Playoffs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-25T10:59:05+01:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nottingham-Forest-vs-Chelsea-Premier-League.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abhinav Goel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePlayoffsEN\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ThePlayoffsEN\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abhinav Goel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nottingham-forest-vs-chelsea-premier-league-injury-news-match-preview-and-predicted-line-ups\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nottingham-forest-vs-chelsea-premier-league-injury-news-match-preview-and-predicted-line-ups\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abhinav Goel\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/560f53c1b7b036779d2efecc3dc9bc35\"},\"headline\":\"Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea Premier League &#8211; 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