Nottingham Forest v Chelsea: Premier League – live

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The January sales (pt 2)

Full time: Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Aston Villa

Spurs’ poor home form has continued with a surprise defeat to Aston Villa. That’s their third in the last four league games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. And it’s good news for Chelsea, who will be level on points with Spurs if they win their two games in hand.

The January sales (pt 1)

Jonathan Wilson on Graham Potter

Team news

Steve Cooper makes two changes to the Forest team that lost at Old Trafford: Morgan Gibbs-White replaces the injured Jesse Lingard, and Dean Henderson – who was unavailable against his parent club – takes over from Wayne Hennessey in goal.

Graham Potter makes one enforced change, Cesar Azpilicueta for Reece James at right-back.

Nottingham Forest (4-3-3) Henderson; Aurier, Worrall, Boly, Lodi; Yates, Freuler, Mangala; Johnson, Awoniyi, Gibbs-White.
Substitutes: Hennessey, Cook, Williams, Toffolo, McKenna, Colback, O’Brien, Surridge, Dennis.

Chelsea (4-2-3-1) Kepa; Azpilicueta, Koulibaly, Thiago, Cucurella; Zakaria, Jorginho; Sterling, Mount, Pulisic; Havertz.
Substitutes: Bettinelli, Chalobah, Kovacic, Ziyech, Gallagher, Chukwuemeka, Hutchinson, Hall, Aubameyang.

Preamble

Hello, happy new year and welcome to live coverage of the Premier League match between Nottingham Forest and Chelsea at the City Ground. It’s 19th v 9th, if you’re into the whole league-position thing, and a chance for both teams to start 2023 as they mean to go on.

Forest’s home form is surely going to decide whether they stay up, and so far it’s been pretty good: P8 W3 D2 L3. That includes a good recent run of eight points from four games, including a famous win over Liverpool in October.

Though Chelsea are strong favourites by virtue of having superior association footballers, Forest have a puncher’s chance of another big win against a team who have struggled away from home this season. Chelsea have already lost four times in the league, which is as many defeats as they had in all competitions on the road last season. Before the World Cup they were ambushed 4-1 at Brighton and then well beaten by Newcastle, even if the score was only 1-0.

The victory over Bournemouth after Christmas was much more encouraging, much more “Potterball”, but that was at Stamford Bridge. And they had Reece James for an hour, which won’t be the case today.

Kick off 4,30pm.