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Commentary
5¹A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Forest Green 'keeper.
8¹GOAL!! A patient Chelsea side were rewarded with a fierce strike from GALENO. (1-0 Chelsea)
10¹NISBET shot over.
12¹CAIRNEY beat a number of Forest Green players and fired a great chance over the bar.
13¹PETAGNA ran onto a wonderful ball from GALENO but pulled his effort wide.
20¹A free-kick from CAIRNEY flew inches wide.
23¹ZAPPACOSTA hoofed the ball wide from the edge of the box.
25¹The Forest Green 'keeper dived to his left to save a fierce drive from Chelsea's GALENO.
26¹The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from DEAS fell just over.
31¹GOAL!! A long ball from NISBET down the middle fell to the lurking SHANKLAND who blasted a deadly shot into the net. (1-1)
34¹A tame shot from SHANKLAND bounced agonisingly wide.
36¹A cross from O'HARA left SHANKLAND in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
38¹KEITA was put clear by HELANDER and he pulled away from CLARK but thrust his shot over.
40¹A great save prevented BORRÉ from scoring a lovely goal.
43¹A pin-point pass found SHANKLAND and his right foot effort flew narrowly over.
13²GOAL!! Showing plenty of skill GALENO dribbled past McGRATH and hit the ball past the 'keeper. (2-1 Chelsea)
17²CAIRNEY made space on the left and pulled the ball to BORRÉ who rasped the ball over.
19²GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed SPITTAL to knock the ball to SHANKLAND who blasted a looping shot into the back of the net. (2-2)
21²GOAL!! An energetic DEVLIN ran down the wing and pulled the ball back for SPITTAL to slide home. (3-2 Forest Green)
23²A useful ball from RUBEZIC on the right bobbled toward SHANKLAND who sliced his shot just beyond the near post.
25²A penalty box scramble resulted in CAIRNEY tapping a low shot wide.
29²VAN DE BEEK's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Forest Green crossbar.
34²CAIRNEY waltzed round DEVLIN and rattled a poor shot into the crowd.
44²PETAGNA knocked the ball to GALENO who touched it inches wide.

 
Forest Green
 
League position: 23
Home league form: WLLL
Overall league form: WWLLLLLL
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Zander CLARK6½17 Matej KOVÁR
(c)Nicky DEVLIN6½27 Davide ZAPPACOSTA
Jack MacKENZIE7½37 Vitaliy MYKOLENKO
Cameron DEVLIN7 47½Daniel PAREJO(c)
Robbie DEAS6 57 Filip HELANDER
Slobodan RUBEZIC6½66½Cheick KEITA
Blair SPITTAL7½77½Tom CAIRNEY
Mark O'HARA7 87 Wenderson GALENO
(p)Kevin NISBET7½97½Andrea PETAGNA(p)
(f)Jamie McGRATH6½106½Donny VAN DE BEEK(f)
Lawrence SHANKLAND6½117 Rafael BORRÉ
Scott SmillieManager
Craig HALKETT  12  IRFAN CAN Kahveci
Dimitar MITOV  13  Alessio CRAGNO
Brad LYONS  14  Fredrik OPPEGÅRD
Yan DHANDA  15  Mauro ARAMBARRI
Martin BOYLE  16  Joshua KING
 
Chelsea
 
League position: 16
Away league form: XWWL
Overall league form: WXWWWLLX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Forest Green 3 Chelsea 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 27,920, Stadium: The New Lawn, Referee: Roger Freestone 6)

Shankland 31¹, Shankland 19², Spittal 21²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Galeno 8¹, Galeno 13²
  
  
  
28
53
62
36
510
816
04
45%55%
Man of the match: Jack MaCkenzie