Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest – Team News: Academy star picked for first senior start

Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest – Team News: Academy star picked for first senior start

Chelsea face Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League in just over an hour, and the team news for the game is in!

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Calum McFarlane is taking charge of his first game at Stamford Bridge, and while most of the team is as we predicted, there is one really interesting change.

The team is largely the same as the one that faced Leeds last week – in fact, it’s exactly the same, with one change. Teenage winger Jesse Derry, someone McFarlane knows well from his time as a youth coach, has come into the first XI with Pedro Neto out of the squad entirely.

Alejandro Garnacho is also not in the squad – we’re not sure what’s gone with them, but we can only assume it’s two injuries.

But regardless of it being enforced on McFarlane, this is the sort of decision that can give the home crowd a big boost. They’re looking for things to get excited about, and an academy kid making his debut is certainly something to cling onto.

Here are the full team line-ups for Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea (kick off at 15:00 GMT)