It's always darkest before the dawn. - A Match Thread.

Fine margins again. Score one or two in the first half and we might have won this game. Can't believe the number of chances Forest have missed in the last 6-8 games. Yet this is obviously a pattern and something needs to change. We need a luckier manager!

Played pretty well for half an hour without forcing a single save. The warning signs were there towards the end of the 1st half as Chelsea settled and started to threaten.
Then it all fell apart again. It doesn't seem to matter how and where we line up - the set piece defending and finishing is just laughably atrocious.

As this place is renowned for loving this stat, the BBC had us winning the xG.

I checked the stats on the BBC site and they also had us comprehensively losing the aG battle. (Actual Goals.)

He’s gone. Beeb

Marinakis leaving his seat with about 25 minutes to go looked ominous.
Though why the fuck wait until after the international break?

Has he gone too?

Aged well. Not sure what you were watching. Never looked like scoring.

I mean, that's not true. Just a few inches away on a couple of occasions.

Result aside, the amount of booing in the Upper Clough when the players took the knee was also seriously disappointing.

Yeah there was a bit in the upper Trent end as well.

Yeah, that made me feel ashamed. You're doing the equivalent of cheering for racism. Morons.

Touched that you all don’t realise a significant proportion of Forest fans are proper racists.

They haven't previously had the confidence to vocalise the fact.

Well there are plenty of people giving them license to do so.

Try being a person of colour…

Err, I did say that either way it will get better. Ange is gone. Taiwo playing wasn't a mistake. He did okay. Set up a few good chances. His Chaos helps us. Hooked at half time. Weird... Chelsea weren't very good. We didn't take our chances..

Second half, We are behind and still playing around with the ball. It really didn't look like we were running through walls to get a result. Jesus and Neco should have scored. We still would have lost.

Zinchenko gives me the willies but cannot blame him for any of the goals today. Morato is a walking hand bag. For someone so big he doesn't mark anyone or head the ball. Five at the back and cannot mark. We need someone to drill drill drill that shit in.

Ah onto Porto! Maybe we will thrash the shit out out of him. Bring in Gary Brazil for a one match encore!!!!!!!!

AND FUCK OFF GURU NO-ONE WILL BE WORSE THAN MEGSON!!!! NO-ONE!!!!!!!!! (although Ange is useless... and his press conference was just a bit Megsony)

Chicago: Practicing my Chinese Fire Drill.