There will be times when Chelsea’s approach looks like a masterstroke and others when it looks like madness. This was definitely the latter.
After the loss at West Ham came a defeat against a near-faultless Nottingham Forest who enjoyed an away day to remember at Stamford Bridge, displaying more evidence of the increased threat they will pose on the road this season after previously giving Arsenal and Manchester United scares.
For Chelsea it was another dominant performance, undone by individual error when they appeared to be in little danger to gift Anthony Elanga Forest’s winner, and a lack of composure and correct decision-making especially in the final third.