Chelsea qualified for the Champions League at the expense of Nottingham Forest, because the goal of Levi Colwill de Blues presented a 1-0 last day victory in the city ground.
With Chelsea who introduced the last match day of 2024-25 with an advantage of one point compared to the forest, they knew that three points would confirm a top five finish while the hope of their hosts ended.
Forest needed a victory in combination with favors from elsewhere, but after 50 tense minutes Pedro Neto Teed Colwill for a simple finish of the close range for the traveling fans.
Chris Wood had previously missed a presentable opportunity to put Forest first and he shot from someone else in the second half of the stop time, but the men of Nuno Espirito Santo otherwise had trouble impressing after staying behind, never really a comeback threatening.
The result means that Chelsea finishes fourth in the table, four points ahead of Forest, whose impressive campaign ends with a seventh placed finish and qualifying the League conference.
Forest started positively, but it was the visitors who created the first major opening when Neto turned the right -wing cross of Cole Palmer over the top after half an hour.
Wood then hit Robert Sanchez against the birth of Ola Aina, but did not succeed in keeping his volley low and that was punished after the restart when Colwill tapped home after the bad header of Neco Williams Neto allowed to slide the ball over the face of the goal.
Forest tried to call the pressure when Aina sent a wild effort from the target, but they were kept on arm length by a resolute Chelsea -Backline.
While he saw for eight minutes of the interruption in the beginning of two goals that two goals needed the top five too Gatecrash, Forest Wood Volley saw on the play while Elliot Anderson's Cross-shot was clearly hacked while Chelsea was holding.
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Debrief data: Bos Wait in the end of Europe
There will be disappointment for Bos that it is not the top table in Europe that they will play next season, but it still marks their first continental company since 1995-96 when they reached the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup under Frank Clark.
The 19th trees '19 victories in the Premier League This season is the joint-mast of a team not to end in the top six, together with Manchester United in 2013-14 (also seventh).
For Chelsea, the 1-0 win was the first time they managed to win and hold a clean slate in a Premier League match since September (3-0 versus West Ham).
Moreover, it only represented their second victory in their last 11 league matches on the road (D3, L6).