Every year when the fixtures are announced you hear the familiar refrain that “it doesn’t matter, you play everyone twice”.<\/p>\n
But there is no doubt that when you face a certain team can make a big difference across a 10-month campaign.<\/p>\n
With five games remaining, Spurs will definitely think their run-in, at least on paper, gives them every chance of staying up.<\/p>\n
Next up is a trip to Wolves<\/a>, who have long since been looking ahead to Championship football next week.<\/p>\n A home match against Leeds<\/a> on 11 May is another they would view as an opportunity, especially if Daniel Farke’s side have beaten Burnley<\/a> at Elland Road in their previous game and essentially ensured their safety.<\/p>\n Even a tricky looking away match at Champions League-chasing Aston Villa<\/a> on 3 May comes at a good time for Spurs, as it falls between the two legs of the Europa League semi-final for Unai Emery’s men.<\/p>\n A visit to rivals Chelsea<\/a> before hosting Everton<\/a> on the final day is not straightforward way to finish given both teams seem likely to be fighting for the European places.<\/p>\n But given how tight things are, that is something all the relegation candidates with have to deal with.<\/p>\n West Ham<\/a> host Everton<\/a> on Saturday before an away game at Brentford<\/a> – and it only gets tougher with title-chasing Arsenal<\/a> the visitors to the London Stadium on 10 May.<\/p>\n Even with Newcastle<\/a> enduring a disappointing season, an away game at St James’ Park on the penultimate weekend is far from simple and there could be plenty riding on the home match against Leeds<\/a> on the last day.<\/p>\n Forest arguably face the toughest last five with away games at Chelsea<\/a> and Manchester United<\/a> in May – the former coming just three days before the second leg of their Europa League semi-final against Villa.<\/p>\n Home games against Newcastle<\/a> and Bournemouth<\/a>, on the last day, could be crucial but getting a result at Sunderland<\/a> on Friday would help alleviate a lot of stress for Vitor Pereira’s side before the remainder of the run-in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year when the fixtures are announced you hear the familiar refrain that “it doesn’t matter, you play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-617729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}