Chelsea played for 26 minutes with an extra player, survived a mass brawl, saw João Félix spurn a late unmissable header and watched two brilliant saves deny goal machine Cole Palmer. Even on the back of five wins on the trot, there was nothing they could do to break Nottingham Forest’s unbeaten record on their travels.
Two outstanding saves, one at each end, during 14 minutes of injury time probably rightly ensured this high-octane Premier League encounter ended with honours even. Even then, Chelsea’s goalkeeper, Robert Sánchez, was stretched to the limit to keep out the substitute Jota Silva’s downward header as the clock ticked into a nail-biting 104th minute.
