19. Pep Guardiola's side could not stop scoring goals in their FA Cup match on the weekend.
However, this is not Salford City they are playing tonight.
It is in fact Brentford who have had the better of the opening exchanges but it remains goalless in West London.
17. Graham Potter is taking charge of his first game as Hammers' manager at the London Stadium tonight.
However, it has been the visitors who have started better in this one.
The Cottagers are dominating possession and have ad the only shots of the match so far, albeit off target.
13. Brilliant play from The Blues to take the lead in the capital.
Jackson does well to win the ball and turn his man before feeding the ball into the path of Palmer.
He is ice-cold under pressure and sits the keeper down with a dummy before slotting into the bottom corner.
Here we are under the lights at the City Ground - and fans of a certain age will be reminded of the clashes between these sides in the late 70s when Brian Clough was in charge at Forest.
Now, Nuno Espirito Santo is the name on everyone's lips around this part of the East Midlands - but this will be a test of Forest's top four, even the title, credentials.
There was a little tension ahead of the game yesterday when Liverpool boss Arne Slot suggested Forest had spent their way into their current position.
Nuno's response was: 'Money doesn't play football'.
Ryan Yates comes back into the side and captains Forest, while Slot brings back the big guns, making nine changes from the team that beat Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup on Saturday.
If Liverpool win, they will go nine points clear at the top.
7. Early break in play as Brooks is down injured for the visitors.
Cucurella took him out, looking to block his run into space.
He is back up to his feet and able to carry on, evidently winded from the challenge.
Palmer strikes a free-kick from distance but it is an easy save for The Cherriees' keeper.
THOMAS TUCHEL is back at Chelsea for the first time since getting the sack in September 2022.
As exclusively revealed by SunSport on Sunday, Tuchel returns to Stamford Bridge on a scouting mission.
Now England boss, he can sit in a comfy seat and cast his eyes over Chelsea duo Cole Palmer and Levi Colwill, who start for The Blues.
3. The match is underway at Stamford Bridge.
Maresca's side are looking to get back to winning ways against a Bournemouth side plagued by injuries in the final third.
Palmer slots the ball into Fernandez in the box but a poor touch sees it run through to the keeper.
The biggest story at the Gtech is about a player who is not here. It increasingly looks like we have seen the last of Kyle Walker in a City shirt, with the England defender omitted from the squad by Pep Guardiola as he seeks to push through a move to Italy.
Guardiola, largely reverting to the side that beat West Ham in their last Prem outing, appears to be playing Portuguese Mateus Nunes as right back, with Rico Lewis on the bench in the one change from that league game.
A single change from the last Prem outing for the Bees, too - although Vitaly Janelt in for Kevin Schade looks like a more defensive move. It might see Yoane Wissa operating through the middle.
It is no coincidence that when Cole Palmer is not firing on all cylinders, neither do Chelsea.
Since The Blues have hit a spot of bad form, their playmaker has struggled to influence games as we are used to seeing.
Maresca will be hoping that Palmer can be the man to punish The Cherries in West London this evening.
THOMAS TUCHEL is back at Chelsea for the first time since getting the sack in September 2022.
Now England boss, he can sit in a comfy seat and cast his eyes over Chelsea duo Cole Palmer and Levi Colwill, who start for The Blues.
The match tonight at the City Ground is massive with regards to this season's Premier League title race.
Nott'm Forest have stumbled into third place in the table, never even hoping of attaining Champions League football this season.
However, should they topple The Reds tonight, many will be talking about whether they can repeat the surprise league title of Leicester City before.
Despite having gone eight games without defeat, the bookies are expecting a Chelsea win at Stamford Bridge tonight.
Chelsea - 1/2
Draw - 15/4
Bournemouth - 9/2
All match odds brought to you by Betway.
Not that it relates to any of the games tonight but we've got a little bit of confirmed transfer news in the Premier League.
Aston Villa have confirmed the signing of Donyell Malen from Borussia Dortmund - the fee is around £19.5m plus £2.5m in add-ons.
Nottingham Forest: Sels, Murillo, Williams, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Wood, Hudson-Odoi, Elanga, Yates, Milenkovic, Aina.
Liverpool: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Diaz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Gakpo, Robertson, Gravenberch, Alexander-Arnold.
It also looks like it could soon be the end of an era for Kyle Walker and Manchester City.
The club captain has been left in Manchester for the trip to Brentford as he continues to work on an exit away from the Etihad.
Walker, 34, is one of the most decorated players in the club's history.
He was part of the Treble winning team and has won 14 major trophies for the club, including six Premier League titles, in 319 appearances.
Well, despite their heroics at the weekend many of the Chelsea players are still struggling to get a sniff in the Premier League.
The players who got the goals - Joao Felix, Tosin and Christopher Nkunku - all make the bench.
It's a strange one to drop centre-back Tosin for 18-year-old Josh Acheampong - it's not like Morecambe gave the two-goal former Fulham man a tough afternoon.
The quartet of Axel Disasi, Ben Chilwell, Carney Chukwuemeka and Cesare Cadadei didn't even make the bench and are all expected to leave.
Brentford: Flekken, Roerslev, Collins, Van den Berg, Lewis-Potter, Norgaard, Janelt, Jensen, Damsgaard, Mbuemo, Wissa.
Man City: Ortega, Nunes, Akanki, Ake, Gvardiol, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Silva, Savinho, Foden, Haaland.
West Ham: Fabianski, Wan-Bissaka, Mavrapanos, Kilman, Emerson, Alvarez, Rodriguez, Soucek, Soler, Kudus, Paqueta.
Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson, Lukic, Pereira, Wilson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi, Jimenez.
Chelsea: Sanchez, Caicedo, Acheampong, Colwill, Cucurella, Lavia, Enzo, Madueke, Palmer, Sancho, Jackson.
Bournemouth: Travers, Huijsen, Kerkez, Cook, Brooks, Christie, Dango, Adams, Hill, Semenyo, Zabaryni.
We'll have team news for the 7.30pm games very soon, with confirmation coming at 6.15pm.
Team news for the Forest vs Liverpool game will come at 6.45pm.
Nottingham Forest have been the feel good story of the Premier League season.
Not many would have put them in the top half of the table in January, let alone third, level on points with Arsenal and ahead of the likes of Chelsea and Man City.
The question now is, can they continue this form for the rest of the season?
The last time they finished in the top half of the top flight was in 1995-96, while they finished third the year before that - Stan Collymore was the star of those sides.
Their highest league finish of the 21st Century was when they came 16th in 2022-23, their first season back in the top flight.
That season they collected 38 points - they're already at 40 this year with 18 games still to play.
Tonight is easily one of Forest's biggest league games in the last 30 years.
Chelsea are stuck between a bit of a rock and a hard place tonight.
They have kept just one clean sheet at Stamford Bridge all season and have scored more goals away from home.
The Blues are down in 10th in the home table.
Tonight, they welcome Bournemouth who are one of the better away sides in the league - having picked up 15 points from 10 matches.
The Cherries have won three of their last four away games and scored at least two in each of their last five away matches.
Forest have just the one player missing from their entire squad and are enjoying better injury fortune than any other club in the division.
Ibrahim Sangare remains out, with Nuno confirming he is back in light training but still has about a month until he's back.
The Reds have two players missing with Joe Gomez still out and not yet back in training. He's not expected back until some point in Februrary.
Darwin Nunez is also unavailable for selection after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season against Manchester United.
Brentford have no new injuries from the weekend after resting all their key men in the FA Cup.
City are closer to having Oscar Bobb and Ruben Dias back, but both players are still a couple of weeks away, at least.
Bobb has been training with the team but needs to get back up to speed, Pep Guardiola confirmed at the weekend.
