{"id":666182,"date":"2026-05-12T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:40:11","slug":"premier-league-relegation-battle-will-it-be-tottenham-or-west-ham-who-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666182\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League relegation battle: Will it be Tottenham or West Ham who survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With two games left, the relegation fight between Tottenham<\/a> and West Ham<\/a> is on a knife edge – and their recent form tells two very different stories.<\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/a> have somewhat steadied themselves under Roberto de Zerbi. They are four games unbeaten (W2 D2), their longest run without defeat this season, and one that reflects a side finally showing some resilience after months of turbulence. <\/p>\n

Their last unbeaten run of five matches came in December and January, a period that seems a long time ago now.<\/p>\n

Momentum has rarely been Spurs’ friend this year, but avoiding defeat at this stage is no small thing. <\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a>, by contrast, are sliding at the worst possible moment. Defeat at Newcastle<\/a> would make it three losses on the bounce, something that has already happened twice under Nuno Espirito Santo – once in October and again in December.<\/p>\n

When results dip, they tend to dip quickly, and the Hammers’ season has been punctuated by damaging spells that have dragged them back into trouble.<\/p>\n

Spurs still have their fate in their own hands, while West Ham<\/a>‘s margin for error is shrinking fast. Over the next two defining games, survival may hinge on who holds their nerve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With two games left, the relegation fight between Tottenham and West Ham is on a knife edge –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-666182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}