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

FPL GW35 Scout Picks - Final Selection

Raya Martin

Bogle
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Gabriel Magalhães
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Eze
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Haaland
Thiago
Calvert-Lewin

Darlow
Ballard
Fernández
Tavernier

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Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Cherki	MCI	6.5m	105.4%	Very Likely
Groß	BHA	5.5m	95.6%	Maybe
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	92.5%	Unlikely
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	93.7%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	6.1m	83.1%	Unlikely
Isak	LIV	10.3m	88.6%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	79.3%	Unlikely
Gyökeres	ARS	8.8m	38.4%	Unlikely
Haaland	MCI	14.6m	67.0%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.5m	70.6%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.7m	67.4%	Unlikely
Aït-Nouri	MCI	5.7m	65.3%	Unlikely
F.Kadıoğlu	BHA	4.4m	63.0%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	65.9%	Unlikely
Richards	CRY	4.4m	63.6%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.3m	63.0%	Unlikely
Ngumoha	LIV	4.3m	62.1%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.2m	54.7%	Unlikely
Ndiaye	EVE	6.2m	59.6%	Unlikely
Gabriel	ARS	7.2m	52.3%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.4m	57.9%	Unlikely
Wan-Bissaka	WHU	4.1m	56.3%	Unlikely
Frimpong	LIV	5.7m	54.9%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	9.8m	28.5%	Unlikely
Shaw	MUN	4.5m	53.6%	Unlikely
Brobbey	SUN	5.3m	55.2%	Unlikely
Osula	NEW	5.4m	48.3%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.6m	41.9%	Unlikely
Bijol	LEE	3.9m	51.0%	Unlikely
Hermansen	WHU	4.2m	48.9%	Unlikely
Ødegaard	ARS	7.8m	48.1%	Unlikely
N.Williams	NFO	4.8m	48.1%	Unlikely
Richarlison	TOT	6.3m	39.3%	Unlikely
Aina	NFO	4.7m	44.9%	Unlikely
Beto	EVE	5.0m	42.2%	Unlikely
M.Fernandes	WHU	5.5m	42.2%	Unlikely
Damsgaard	BRE	5.6m	41.8%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	6.8m	39.9%	Unlikely
Hincapie	ARS	5.1m	41.6%	Unlikely
Bassey	FUL	4.4m	40.8%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mayenda	SUN	5.2m	99.4%	Likely
Merino	ARS	5.4m	100.2%	Very Likely
Andrey Santos	CHE	4.5m	96.5%	Maybe
Tchaouna	BUR	4.8m	96.2%	Maybe
Piroe	LEE	4.9m	94.4%	Maybe
Reijnders	MCI	5.0m	93.4%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	83.4%	Unlikely
Lucca	NFO	5.4m	84.6%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	4.9m	90.2%	Unlikely
Grealish	EVE	6.3m	90.1%	Unlikely
Emenalo	CHE	4.5m	89.7%	Unlikely
John	NFO	4.0m	89.2%	Unlikely
Slonina	CHE	3.9m	89.9%	Unlikely
Salmon	ARS	4.0m	91.5%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	82.9%	Unlikely
Estève	BUR	3.9m	87.9%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.5m	84.4%	Unlikely
Calafiori	ARS	5.6m	85.9%	Unlikely
Strand Larsen	CRY	5.9m	86.9%	Unlikely
Mbeumo	MUN	8.4m	71.8%	Unlikely
Longstaff	LEE	4.8m	80.4%	Unlikely
Kilman	WHU	4.1m	79.3%	Unlikely
McAidoo	MCI	4.5m	78.9%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.5m	75.8%	Unlikely
Johnson	CRY	6.5m	79.6%	Unlikely
Cairns	LEE	3.9m	77.1%	Unlikely
Mee	MUN	3.9m	76.8%	Unlikely
Woltemade	NEW	6.7m	74.8%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	5.8m	65.8%	Unlikely
Tolu	WOL	5.2m	74.2%	Unlikely
Byfield	TOT	4.0m	75.5%	Unlikely
Steele	BHA	4.2m	73.0%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	6.2m	60.4%	Unlikely
Obi	MUN	4.2m	70.8%	Unlikely
Ebere	EVE	4.4m	66.7%	Unlikely
Cunha	MUN	8.1m	74.2%	Unlikely
Van de Ven	TOT	4.4m	64.7%	Unlikely
Caicedo	CHE	5.7m	61.9%	Unlikely
Amissah	FUL	3.8m	63.3%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	61.2%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	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 446 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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Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

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It’s gonna Ben Mee
53 mins ago
Time to target Chelsea
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1. Feanor
  8 mins ago
  Palmer -> Szoboszlai
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2. tutankamun
  8 mins ago
  But they play Liverpool next.
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  1. Nomar
    3 mins ago
    Yes time to target them to get Chelsea players in!
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thegaffer82
53 mins ago
On the plus side for Chelsea, they drew the second half 🙂
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Count of Monte Hristo
52 mins ago
45 with NOR, Semenyo and Haaland (c) to go!
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1. Feanor
  7 mins ago
  I'm on 43 thanks to Tr0ll Palmer
  
  Need some Semenyo goals assisted by NOR and Haaland
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FOREST FOREVER 2
51 mins ago
Forest Fan; JP owner. Great Times.
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Magic Zico
50 mins ago
5 points off 10K rank, who's the best differentials for the last 3 GWs? Will get rid of Palmer and Tavernier ...
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1. tutankamun
  21 mins ago
  Osula, Gross, Hinshelwood, Kroupi. Truffert, Spurs players…
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  1. Magic Zico
    6 mins ago
    Osula interesting, ta!
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2. Gubby-Allen
  8 mins ago
  First place is finding out which teams have something to play for and who do not.
  
  Tottenham wouldn't be the worst choice. If anyone has Chelsea, Sunderland and one of Burnley/Wolves to play then them.
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  1. Magic Zico
    5 mins ago
    Struggling to find TOT midfielders ...
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3. Gubby-Allen
  1 min ago
  Okofor?
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Webbster2k
39 mins ago
Rate my bench boost:
GK Darlow 2pts
DF Struijk 1pt
MF Ampadu 1pt
MF Anderson 1pt
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1. Jordan.
  12 mins ago
  looks like you selected a crap bunch there,unlucky though
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2. Gubby-Allen
  11 mins ago
  5
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3. Gubby-Allen
  10 mins ago
  Was there not any DGW when it could have been used?
  
  Presumably TC for the next one?
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4. AC/DC AFC
  3 mins ago
  Depends how you look at this v your 11.
  
  I started Darlow and Struijk tbf
  
  But bench boosted Raya (played Gabriel), Senesi (who was starting till I went strong on Leeds), Mukiele and Tav.
  
  A genuine 34 pointer that I would have missed out on, otherwise.
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Gubby-Allen
32 mins ago
Time to work out which team don't give a toss anymore.

That was the skill to finishing well last season which I realised too late
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1. Count of Monte Hristo
  6 mins ago
  Burnley, Wolves, Sunderland, Chelsea, Fulham, Newcastle, Palace
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AC/DC AFC
26 mins ago
Up to 82 points with a 34 point BB

Triple City to go

Hopefully,

with captain to play ...
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1. Magic Zico
  4 mins ago
  Sweet
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2. Gubby-Allen
  3 mins ago
  Well done. Not an easy week to get big hauls.
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Gubby-Allen
24 mins ago
Don't think I will be getting to 2,400 points which is usually my yardstick.

I feel as if I have had a better season than last year, when I did and with more chips but unless Haaland scores 8 as TC,at not even make 2,300.
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1. TallestJohn
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  Was thinking this yesterday, it'd probably be a very low scoring season without defcon and two sets of chips.
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PartyTime
8 mins ago
Anyone considering Semenyo to Cherki? last chance saloon for Semenyo. Always stinking up my team
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1. The 12th Man
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  Strongly considering Semenyo,Palmer,J.Pedro > Cherki,Saka,Gyokores for free and ignoring Palace.
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