Chelsea on Monday was disgraced by hard fighting Nottingham Forest defeated the Blues 1-3 at Stamford Bridge.
Fresh from killing off Chelsea’s top-five hopes, Nottingham Forest will now turn their attention to making sure the London club cannot sneak into the Champions League through the back door.
After being thrashed at home by Forest’s second string, Chelsea cannot finish in the top five and their only hope of getting into the Champions League is for Aston Villa to win the Europa League, finish fifth and free up a sixth place through the Premier League. 
But, a goal up from the first leg of their Europa League semi-final tie with Villa, Forest will fancy completing the job against their Midlands rivals and qualifying for the Champions League by lifting the trophy in Istanbul later this month.
It is a remarkable potential scenario for a team who had seemed destined for the Championship for so long this season and underlines what a remarkable job head coach Vitor Pereira is doing. Forest are not yet mathematically safe, but they are all but assured of their Premier League status thanks to this result.
Chelsea have more chance of finishing sixth from bottom than sixth from top, having lost a sixth successive league game.
Pereira made eight changes, one more than Villa manager Unai Emery in their defeat by Tottenham, and watched Taiwo Awoniyi, twice, and Igor Jesus, from the penalty spot, score the goals that secured a stunning win at Stamford Bridge.
Awoniyi is not in Pereira’s Europa League squad. But the only real concern for Forest is that Morgan Gibbs-White, who was sent on as a half-time substitute, was forced off with a head injury after clashing with Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sánchez.
Gibbs-White and Sánchez both left the field with bandages around their heads and had to be replaced. Chelsea’s teenager Jesse Derry had been carried off on a stretcher with a nasty head injury at the end of the first half.
Chelsea’s dreadful day was compounded by Cole Palmer missing from the penalty spot, in front of England manager Thomas Tuchel, after Derry had clashed heads with Zach Abbott, who also had to be replaced.
