Despite Vitor Pereira's heavy rotation, Forest extended its unbeaten run in the league to seven games, and made it three wins on the spin, with a clinical display at Stamford Bridge to ease relegation concerns.

Awoniyi opened the scoring after just 97 seconds, heading in from Dilane Bakwa's cross, while Igor Jesus fired in from the penalty spot in the 15th minute after Malo Gusto was penalised for a shirt pull on Awoniyi.

Chelsea missed the chance to pull a goal back before the break, with Cole Palmer missing a penalty of his own, and Forest made it 3-0 early in the second half when Awoniyi tapped in from Morgan Gibbs-White's centre.

Gibbs-White was substituted off with a head injury shortly after, throwing his availability for Forest's Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday into doubt, while Joao Pedro saw a header disallowed for offside.

The Brazilian did eventually end Chelsea's long goal drought, scoring a bicycle kick in stoppage time, though the Blues could not avoid a sixth consecutive Premier League defeat.