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Happy New Year and welcome to Derby Potter-Cooper Made in Swansea. It’s the tale of two treatment rooms at the City Ground today. Forest’s huge side are still struggling to gel and their progress has been hampered by injuries to Moussa Nyakati and Cheikh Kouyate in particular but also the one picked up at Old Trafford by Jesse Lingard and those picked up by Morgan Gibbs-White in training which leave them in doubt. . To pick this afternoon.

Chelsea are missing the two players that made them tick – Reece James and Ben Chilwell – while Wesley Fofana and N’Golo Kante continue to recover from leg injuries that may have cost France their third World Cup. Ruben Loftus-Cheek is still a few days away and according to Graham Potter’s latest update, Armando Broja will miss the season, but Edouard Mendy could return to vie for a place on the bench.

Chelsea looked poor, losing all fluency when James wasn’t playing. He’s as vital to them as Trent Alexander-Arnold is to Liverpool, and dealing with a winger there tends to neutralize them as an attacking force while leaving the defense vulnerable, with the central defense moving around to try to help and leave big gaps. But Potter, admirably and unlike many of his peers in the Premier League, regardless of whether you think he’s the right man for Chelsea, has refused to blame his stuttering start at the club:

“Our job is to try to bring back as many people as possible,” he said. “It was a really tough period, as it was during my time as a coach.

“But we’re Chelsea and people don’t want to hear these reasons or excuses. We have to deal with it and do our best to find the answers.”

Forest, who had two wins and two draws in their last five matches before the World Cup break and then lost to Manchester United on Boxing Day, are poised for more signings, giving Steve Cooper the tools he needs to keep up with the squad. This time around, he says, they’ll take a narrower approach and his focus will be on consistency.

“We have to get to a point where we have a stable group. That doesn’t mean we haven’t settled,” he said. “Teamwork, spirit and culture come with time. There is no doubt about that.

“That’s the intention and the games where you learn a lot about the personalities and personalities of the players and they learn a lot themselves. That’s how they build relationships… We have to have consistency and that’s what we try to do.”

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