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We perhaps shouldn’t have been surprised by an odd game between two of the Premier League’s odder football teams in Nottingham Forest and Chelsea , but still. That was an odd game, albeit with a 3-2 Chelsea win being a surprisingly likely outcome for reasons we shall get to.
Yet they spent an hour seemingly treating this as an end-of-season jolly with nothing left to play for. It was only substitutions that changed the flow of the game, with the introductions of Raheem Sterling and Reece James particularly transformative although Christopher Nkunku and Malo Gusto made their own energising impact.
Football being football, Chelsea’s best spell since the opening 10 minutes of the game was also the one that saw them fall behind when Callum Hudson-Odoi finally managed to do what he’d spent the whole game threatening against his former team, cutting in from a largely unguarded outpost on the left and curling in with his right foot.
Late winners are always fun, important late winners are even more fun, and important late winners set up by delicious first-time crosses from a much-missed Reece James better still. Still, though. For a club that finished a clearly unacceptable 12th last season and started this campaign in a frightful mess, it is at the very least something.
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