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Josh Acheampong was the man of the hour against Nottingham Forest today.

He and his Chelsea colleagues survived a tricky first half at the City Ground, and looked like they might be in serious trouble until the defender popped up with a great header to put his team ahead.

Acheampong on special moment of scoring first goal

Josh Acheampong heads the ball in.

It was his first professional goal, so you can be sure that Chelsea TV wanted to catch up with him at full time.

“It’s that inspiration to know you can come through the academy and play for Chelsea first team. I’m so grateful to Reece and all the other academy players because they’ve given me lots of support,” the young defender said.

“It was a really good feeling to score. It’s quite surreal. I don’t remember it too much, but just a really good feeling. I don’t really remember much of the celebrations either, to be honest. I need to watch it back!

“I don’t score many goals, so to score my first Chelsea goal is really good. The first half was quite tough and they created quite a lot of chances, but so did we. I’m happy we managed to get that first goal, and hopefully we can build from there.”

“Of course, we’re really pleased with the win. We spoke about building on this, and hopefully we can do the same in the games to come.”

He’s certainly done his chances of further minutes no harm.

You can see Josh speaking in the clip embedded here:

In other news…

Josh Acheampong and Reece James also spoke to TNT Sport at full time about their feelings having played a key part in the win.

You can see the goals in the game from Josh, Reece and Pedro Neto in the videos here.