Chelsea v Forest team news: Derry starts, eight Forest changes

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Cherki	MCI	6.5m	102.9%	Very Likely
Groß	BHA	5.5m	95.2%	Maybe
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	94.2%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	92.4%	Unlikely
Isak	LIV	10.3m	89.9%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	6.1m	81.8%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	79.1%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.5m	69.7%	Unlikely
Haaland	MCI	14.6m	64.8%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.7m	67.1%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	66.1%	Unlikely
Aït-Nouri	MCI	5.7m	65.2%	Unlikely
Richards	CRY	4.4m	63.5%	Unlikely
F.Kadıoğlu	BHA	4.4m	62.5%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.3m	62.9%	Unlikely
Ngumoha	LIV	4.3m	62.0%	Unlikely
Ndiaye	EVE	6.2m	59.8%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.4m	58.1%	Unlikely
Wan-Bissaka	WHU	4.1m	56.4%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.2m	53.0%	Unlikely
Brobbey	SUN	5.3m	55.6%	Unlikely
Frimpong	LIV	5.7m	55.0%	Unlikely
Shaw	MUN	4.5m	53.6%	Unlikely
Gabriel	ARS	7.2m	50.9%	Unlikely
Bijol	LEE	3.9m	50.9%	Unlikely
Osula	NEW	5.4m	47.4%	Unlikely
Hermansen	WHU	4.2m	49.0%	Unlikely
Ødegaard	ARS	7.8m	48.3%	Unlikely
N.Williams	NFO	4.8m	48.3%	Unlikely
Aina	NFO	4.7m	45.2%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.6m	39.5%	Unlikely
Beto	EVE	5.0m	42.2%	Unlikely
M.Fernandes	WHU	5.5m	42.3%	Unlikely
Damsgaard	BRE	5.6m	41.8%	Unlikely
Hincapie	ARS	5.1m	41.8%	Unlikely
Gyökeres	ARS	8.8m	28.2%	Unlikely
Bassey	FUL	4.4m	40.8%	Unlikely
Richarlison	TOT	6.3m	37.7%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	6.8m	39.4%	Unlikely
Gomez	BHA	4.9m	39.5%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Merino	ARS	5.4m	100.1%	Very Likely
Mayenda	SUN	5.2m	99.3%	Maybe
Andrey Santos	CHE	4.5m	96.1%	Maybe
Tchaouna	BUR	4.8m	96.4%	Maybe
Piroe	LEE	4.9m	94.2%	Unlikely
Reijnders	MCI	5.0m	93.4%	Unlikely
Salmon	ARS	4.0m	91.7%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	4.9m	90.2%	Unlikely
Grealish	EVE	6.3m	90.0%	Unlikely
Slonina	CHE	3.9m	90.0%	Unlikely
John	NFO	4.0m	89.1%	Unlikely
Emenalo	CHE	4.5m	89.1%	Unlikely
Estève	BUR	3.9m	87.8%	Unlikely
Strand Larsen	CRY	5.9m	87.9%	Unlikely
Calafiori	ARS	5.6m	86.3%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.5m	84.4%	Unlikely
Lucca	NFO	5.4m	82.5%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	81.4%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	81.7%	Unlikely
Longstaff	LEE	4.8m	80.2%	Unlikely
Kilman	WHU	4.1m	79.2%	Unlikely
Johnson	CRY	6.5m	80.0%	Unlikely
McAidoo	MCI	4.5m	78.9%	Unlikely
Mee	MUN	3.9m	76.8%	Unlikely
Byfield	TOT	4.0m	75.5%	Unlikely
Cairns	LEE	3.9m	77.1%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.5m	75.1%	Unlikely
Tolu	WOL	5.2m	73.7%	Unlikely
Woltemade	NEW	6.7m	74.3%	Unlikely
Cunha	MUN	8.1m	76.5%	Unlikely
Mbeumo	MUN	8.4m	69.4%	Unlikely
Steele	BHA	4.2m	73.2%	Unlikely
Obi	MUN	4.2m	70.7%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	5.8m	63.2%	Unlikely
Ebere	EVE	4.4m	66.9%	Unlikely
Van de Ven	TOT	4.4m	64.6%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	6.2m	58.0%	Unlikely
Amissah	FUL	3.8m	63.2%	Unlikely
Caicedo	CHE	5.7m	61.4%	Unlikely
Gonzalez	WOL	4.3m	60.7%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	B, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	B
Up	Henderson	CRY	C
No Change	Pickford	EVE	C
No Change	Verbruggen	BHA	B
No Change	Darlow	LEE	B, Vs, £
Down	Roefs	SUN	B

Last updated: 1 May, 2026 4:27pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	B, Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A
Up	Lacroix	CRY	A
No Change	Keane	EVE	C
Up	van Hecke	BHA	B
Up	Struijk	LEE	B, Vs, £
Up	Hill	BOU	C, £
Down	Ballard	SUN	C
Down	van Dijk	LIV	A
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C
No Change	Cash	AVL	C

Last updated: 1 May, 2026 4:31pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
Up	Cherki	MCI	A
Up	Saka	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	Wilson	FUL	B
No Change	Ismaila Sarr	CRY	C, Rest
No Change	Rogers	AVL	B
No Change	Gibbs-White	NFO	A
No Change	Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	A, £
No Change	Palmer	CHE	C
Down	Szoboszlai	LIV	C
No Change	Tavernier	BOU	C, £
No Change	Hinshelwood	BHA	B, £

Last updated: 1 May, 2026 4:39pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	B
No Change	Bowen	WHU	A
No Change	Watkins	AVL	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	C, Vs
No Change	João Pedro	CHE	C
Up	Isak	LIV	B

Last updated: 1 May, 2026 4:43pm

Dugout Discussion

Chelsea v Forest team news: Derry starts, eight Forest changes

4 May 2026 79 comments

Skonto Rigga

Thanks to the Bank Holiday in the United Kingdom, we’ve got the unusual spectacle of a Monday 3pm BST kick-off today.

Chelsea v Nottingham Forest is our mid-afternoon match before Everton v Manchester City later.

TEAM NEWS

There are teamsheet surprises from both teams, although mostly the visitors.

The headline news from Chelsea is that winger Jesse Derry makes his first professional start.

The Blues have four senior wide-men out, with Pedro Neto and Alejandro Garnacho joining the absent contingent today.

Cole Palmer also starts, having only been a substitute in the FA Cup semi-final.

Levi Colwill and Reece James are on the bench after recovering from injury.

As for Forest, carnage.

Vitor Pereira makes eight changes from the Tricky Trees’ UEFA Europa League semi-final first leg against Aston Villa.

Chris Wood, Elliot Anderson and Morgan Gibbs-White are among those on the bench.

The only survivors from Thursday night are Morato, Nicolas Dominguez and Igor Jesus.

LINE-UPS

Chelsea XI: Sanchez, Gusto, Chalobah, Tosin, Cucurella, Caicedo, Lavia, Palmer, Derry, Fernandez, Joao Pedro.

Subs: Jorgensen, Colwill, Hato, James, Fofana, Acheampong, Essugo, Andrey Santos, Delap.

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Abbott, Morato, Jair Cunha, Netz, Yates, McAtee, Dominguez, Bakwa, Igor Jesus, Awoniyi.

Subs: Ortega, Williams, Milenkovic, Anderson, Moreira, Hutchinson, Gibbs-White, Lucca, Wood

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RICICLE
10 mins ago
Has to be a pen to NFO
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g40steve
9 mins ago
Pen Forest
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Raoul Nogues
9 mins ago
Awonyi would never have got the ball but Gusto has not been wise
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g40steve
9 mins ago
Unlike Villa’s B team Forest’s look solid
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1. JohnnyB10
  6 mins ago
  Forest’s confidence is sky high lately
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  1. g40steve
    just now
    Too right,
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The Bandit
8 mins ago
Brain dead defending. Awok was never getting that.
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tutankamun
8 mins ago
Why no red card? No attempt to play the ball.
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djman102
8 mins ago
Gusto YC...commentators surprised it's not red.
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g40steve
8 mins ago
Igor G
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Count of Monte Hristo
8 mins ago
Chelsea are a shambles of a club now.
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It’s gonna Ben Mee
8 mins ago
Jesus almighty!
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Nightcrawler
7 mins ago
wow chelsea just wow
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Paul Psychic Octopus
7 mins ago
Gusto doing his version of the 'Gordon is a Moron' song.

Honestly, how Chelsea can spend £1 billion and end up with this crock of s, is unbelievable.
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RICICLE
7 mins ago
No wonder they fielded a weaker team, it’s only Chelsea
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FPL Blow-In
6 mins ago
So so stupid from Gusto
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Moon Dog
6 mins ago
Love seeing Clearlake get humbled
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FPL Blow-In
5 mins ago
De Zerbi taking notes for his game against Chelsea.

*note to self, field third string team
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g40steve
5 mins ago
Palmer not far away
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1. Count of Monte Hristo
  1 min ago
  From his next club?
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keefy59
5 mins ago
Chelsea need a new defence
Whilst I'm at it midfield , forwards & goalkeeper
Plus of course another manager
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djman102
4 mins ago
LOL at those who tripled up on Chelsea's attack on WC32.

It's me...I'm "those".
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fusen
4 mins ago
It's absolute diabolical that Forest are chucking this game with playing their second string

I'm not actually watching the game, how many have Chelsea scored so far?
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JohnnyB10
4 mins ago
Pedro and Palmer on WC32 probably the dumbest decision ever, there’s exactly some 70+ minutes to prove us wrong
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1. The Bandit
  1 min ago
  Not really a dumb decision, just a bad result.
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  1. AC/DC AFC
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    Consistently poor
    
    They performed for wildcard 24
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Haalander
3 mins ago
Who’s been sent off for Chelsea today then? No way these guys have the stomach for it. They’re shocking bad
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1. AC/DC AFC
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  The defence is terrible
  
  Wide open
  
  And they can't score
  
  But will probably beat Spurs at home!
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AC/DC AFC
2 mins ago
Why have I had Pedro since Gw30?

Missed his previous points

He's gotta go ..
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Babit1967
1 min ago
MGW would have had a field day here as well - Munoz coming on for him with his 0 points 🙁
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1. g40steve
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  Put Tavernier in front of Senesi, elite, follow for more tips
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