Chelsea v Nottingham: Betting Preview - (2025)

Updated: 18/01/2025

The Great British public love an underdog and if there’s one football competition where many an applecart has been upset over the years, it’s the Emirates FA Cup.

Although Nottingham Forest have a wealth of history and tradition to match the oldest football tournament in the world, they travel to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea on Saturday afternoon, where they will no doubt use the underdog mentality in the hope of inspiring a classic Emirates FA Cup upset.

As the betting suggests, the Championship side will go into this tie as the outsiders, but as The Reds know full well after beating Arsenal in the third round last season, anything can happen in the Emirates FA Cup.

Full-time result

Chelsea – 2/9
Draw – 5/1
Nottingham Forest – 12/1

Since the turn of the millennium, the two sides have faced each other twice in the Emirates FA Cup – both times at Stamford Bridge, with Forest losing 2-0 and 3-0, respectively.
Forest fans will have to look back to 1997 to find a winning scoreline against Chelsea, when they were 2-0 winners in the Premiership.

Check out the odds for the correct score from BetBright below…

Correct score

2:0 – 11/2
3:0 – 6/1
0:0 – 16/1
1:1 – 10/1
0:1 – 25/1

Lewis Grabban has been in fine form for The Reds this season and will be relishing the opportunity to score in front of the Forest fans making the trip down to Stamford Bridge this weekend.
Fancy Grabban to score against Chelsea? Check out the latest goalscorer odds from BetBright below…

To Score First

Grabban, L – 11/1
Murphy, Daryl – 14/1
Lolley, J – 18/1

To score anytime

Grabban, L – 14/5
Murphy, Daryl – 7/2
Lolley, J – 9/2

#BrightBundles – Build your same-game accumulator with BetBright

With BetBright’s new football product #BrightBundles, you can create your own single match accumulator!

Here are just a couple of examples of the #BrightBundles you can place on Chelsea v Nottingham Forest in the Emirates FA Cup this weekend.

• Nottingham Forest to win, BTTS – No and over 44.5 booking points: 102/1.
• Nottingham Forest to win, Lewis Grabban to score first and a sending off: 220/1.

#BrightBundles are available for games played within the English Premier League and Championship, plus other leagues around Europe and allows users to choose from a huge range of possibilities, including match result, correct score, red card, team goals, first goalscorer, total corners, penalties scored and many more.

 
Odds are provided at time of writing, please check your betslip to confirm they have not changed before betting.

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