Nottingham Forest v Chelsea LIVE: Premier League final day results and reaction after Levi Colwill strikes

Chelsea, Man City and Newcastle secured places in the Champions League on a day devoid of drama

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Chelsea, Manchester City and Newcastle United all secured places in the Champions League on a lacklustre final day in the Premier League that offered little drama.

Given the easiest task ahead of kick off Pep Guardiola’s City ensured they breezed into Europe’s top-flight after Ilkay Gundogan’s scissor kick sent them ahead against Fulham and Erling Haaland secured the points from the spot.

Things were slightly more tricky at the City Ground where Chelsea defeated Nottingham Forest 1-0. It took until the second half for the breakthrough to come as Neco Williams failed to deal with an aerial ball into the box and set Pedro Neto free. He squared a pass to the back post and Levi Colwill netted the winning goal. Forest offered little threat with Chris Wood missing their best chances.

Newcastle, meanwhile, owe their Champions League spot to Aston Villa after losing at home to Everton. Villa needed to defeat Man Utd at Old Trafford to leapfrog the magpies but went down 2-0 and ended up sixth. Forest’s seventh place finish sends them into the Conference League.

Follow the latest updates from the Premier League’s final day in our live blog below:

Premier League final day LIVE

• RATINGS: Wasteful Chris Wood leaves hosts frustrated
• FT Chelsea confirm Champions League place with 1-0 win over Forest
• 50' - GOAL! Colwill converts Neto's cross to hand Blues the lead [NFO 0-1 CHE]

[25 May 2025 16:09 · Mike Jones]

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Chelsea

9 mins: Enzo Fernandez receives a nice pass from James who spins and bombs forward.

He looks for the cross-field pass to Jadon Sancho but sneds the ball over his head.

[25 May 2025 16:08 · Mike Jones]

Man Utd 0-0 Aston Villa

7 mins: Big moment at Old Trafford as Emi Martinez reacts quickly to twice deny Mason Mount.

Manchester United should perhaps have taken the lead but the Aston Villa goalkeeper proves his worth again between the posts.

[25 May 2025 16:06 · Mike Jones]

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Chelsea

6 mins: Oh my. Forest’s first real movement sees Morgan Gibbs-White drift in behind Reece James but the Chelsea captain recovers well to poke the ball away from the threatening Forest man.

It comes across to Anthony Elanga but the forward can’t bring the ball under control in time to shoot and Chelsea force him wide.

Forest eventually win a corner that Elanga drills at the first defender.

[25 May 2025 16:03 · Mike Jones]

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Chelsea

3 mins: Chelsea are the ones to push forward in these early stages. Cole Palmer wins the Blues a corner which gets knocked short.

Palmer then whips the ball into the middle but it’s headed away by the hosts.

[25 May 2025 16:01 · Mike Jones]

Kick off! Nottingham Forest 0-0 Chelsea

Nottingham Forest have already secured a place in Europe next season but they don’t yet know which competition they will be in.

Chelsea know a win puts them in the Champions League and will do all they can to secure it.

The Forest fans are in full voice ahead of kick off, they’ve had a superb season and are already gearing up for the European tour at the end of the year.

The hosts get the ball rolling at the City Ground, which way will this one go?

[25 May 2025 15:59 · Richard Jolly at Old Trafford]

Man Utd vs Aston Villa

The Aston Villa supporters are singing "Europe again, ole, ole".

Meanwhile, for just the second time in 35 years, United have failed to qualify for Europe.

As the Villa fans have now moved on to chanting about Marcus Rashford, it was clearly a pointed reference.

[25 May 2025 15:50 · Mike Jones]

Can Sels keep Chelsea out?

Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels has failed to keep a clean sheet in his previous seven league matches but has 13 shutouts overall this term.

That is a joint-league high with David Raya, and equals the club record set by Mark Crossley in 1994-95 (in a 42-game season).

[25 May 2025 15:45 · Mike Jones]

A goal drought for Palmer

Cole Palmer has failed to score from open play in any of his last 21 appearances in all competitions, with his only goal in this run a penalty against Liverpool on 4 May.

Only two of Palmer's 15 goals this season have been scored outside of London – strikes at Wolves in August and Southampton in December.

[25 May 2025 15:40 · Mike Jones]

Quick starters

Nottingham Forest have scored the opening goal in 25 Premier League fixtures this season, a joint high with Arsenal and Liverpool.

If they do so again today then pressure will massively mount on Chelsea.

[25 May 2025 15:35 · Mike Jones]

Maresca's young guns

Chelsea’s starting XI in the Premier League this term has an average age of 24 years and 28 days, which is on course to be a new record by any side in a season, eclipsing Leeds in 1999-00 (24 years and 162 days).