Chelsea had to survive an early onslaught before two goals in three minutes early in the second period swung the game in the Blues\u2019 favour.<\/p>\n
Teenager Josh Acheampong headed in his first senior goal from Pedro Neto\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n
Neto curled in a free-kick to double Chelsea\u2019s lead before Reece James added a third late on to lift the visitors up to sixth in the table.<\/p>\n
All Whites skipper Chris Wood started on the bench and when he entered the game in the 74th, Forest were already down 2-0.<\/p>\n
Defeat saw Forest fall into the relegation zone.<\/p>\n
Unstoppable Haaland<\/p>\n
Haaland\u2019s unstoppable form is dragging City into title contention as the Norwegian took his tally for the season to 23 goals in 13 games for club and country.<\/p>\n
After two defeats in their opening three Premier League matches, Pep Guardiola\u2019s men are now unbeaten in eight games in all competitions.<\/p>\n
Haaland proved the match-winner once more with two clinical finishes in five minutes either side of the hour mark at the Etihad.<\/p>\n
He used all of his 1.95-metre (6ft 5in) frame to power in a header from Nico O\u2019Riley\u2019s cross to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n
Haaland then had a helping hand from Jordan Pickford for his second as the England goalkeeper failed to keep out a low shot to his left.<\/p>\n
City edged ahead of Arsenal, who are in action later at Fulham, on goal difference.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth were denied top spot by Jean-Philippe Mateta\u2019s 97th minute penalty to complete his hat-trick and salvage a 3-3 draw for Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n
Two goals from Eli Junior Kroupi put the Cherries 2-0 up at Selhurst Park at half-time.<\/p>\n
Palace lost for the first time in 20 matches in their last outing at Everton.<\/p>\n
The Eagles avoided another defeat thanks to the in-form Mateta, who was fresh from scoring his first international goal for France.<\/p>\n
Mateta struck twice to level before Ryan Christie turned in Marcus Tavernier\u2019s cross in the 89th minute to restore Bournemouth\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n
However, Andoni Iraola\u2019s men were denied another huge win when Mateta stroked home from the spot after wantaway Palace captain Marc Guehi was fouled inside the box.<\/p>\n
Newcastle\u2019s struggles on the road continued with a 2-1 defeat at Brighton as Danny Welbeck struck twice.<\/p>\n
The Magpies have yet to win away in the Premier League this season and slipped to 11th, behind local rivals Sunderland.<\/p>\n
The Black Cats climbed up to seventh with a 2-0 victory over Wolves, which left the visitors five points off safety at the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n
Burnley climbed out of the bottom three thanks to goals from Lesley Ugochukwu and Loum Tchaouna to beat Leeds 2-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea had to survive an early onslaught before two goals in three minutes early in the second period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,65826,39307,2199,5506,8532,65828,23266,3247,65829,14731,93,17774,111,139,13376,69,1523,65827,65830,14730,8129,12622,65831,213,1120,1865,6382,3010,17251],"class_list":["post-86855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-ange","tag-chelsea","tag-city","tag-defeat","tag-ended","tag-erling","tag-everton","tag-forest","tag-haaland","tag-league","tag-manager","tag-manchester","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nottingham","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-postecoglou","tag-postecoglous","tag-premier","tag-reign","tag-sacked","tag-scoring","tag-sports","tag-takes","tag-today","tag-took","tag-top","tag-twice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}