{"id":464469,"date":"2026-05-24T07:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/464469\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:02:16","slug":"tottenham-or-west-ham-shearer-makes-huge-relegation-prediction-ahead-of-final-pl-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/464469\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham or West Ham? Shearer makes huge relegation prediction ahead of final PL matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League legend Alan Shearer is expecting Tottenham to stay up on goal difference on Sunday as he predicts the outcome of the relegation battle with West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs have already sacked two managers this season with Roberto De Zerbi taking on the challenge of keeping Tottenham in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to getting eight points from their last five matches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tottenham-hotspur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> have given themselves a good chance of surviving on the final day of the season on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham, who occupy the final relegation spot, are two points adrift of Tottenham and Spurs know a win or draw against Everton will guarantee survival because of their far superior goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers need to beat Leeds United and hope Everton can beat Tottenham in north London \u2013 and Shearer reckons Spurs will survive but only on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Giving his prediction for Tottenham\u2019s clash against Everton, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/05\/23\/alan-shearers-premier-league-predictions-including-tottenham-west-ham-relegation-battle-28488290\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shearer told The Metro<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s such a tough one to call, I mean, I have no confidence on either side, and this is a pure guess. The pressure that Spurs are going to be under, I do think that Everton will go and get something off Spurs. I\u2019m going to go and say a draw, and I think Spurs will stay up on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ten-greatest-premier-league-final-days-includes-manchester-united-liverpool-spurs-bottlings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 10 greatest Premier League final days includes Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs bottlings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrediction \u2013 Draw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On West Ham\u2019s home clash against Leeds, Shearer added:\u00a0\u201cI saw West Ham last week, I was at the game at Newcastle on Sunday, oh my goodness, they were so bad defensively. They came in with a new system, tried to play five at the back and changed after 25 minutes or so because they were 2-0 down. But they were really, really poor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got to try and get that win and try and put as much pressure on Tottenham Hotspur as possible, because you can imagine the picture where we\u2019re flicking to Tottenham\u2019s ground and we\u2019re flicking to West Ham at different points on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to go for a West Ham win but unfortunately, I don\u2019t think it will be enough to keep them up as I can see Spurs and Everton playing out a draw at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-best-ten-tottenham-west-ham-relegation-reassigned-premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The best ten Tottenham, West Ham relegation candidates reassigned to Premier League suitors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrediction \u2013 West Ham win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murphy: I\u2019ve got a bad feeling Tottenham will go down<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy is expecting Spurs to be relegated on the final day of the season as he has \u201ca bad feeling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy said on talkSPORT: \u201cI think it will be a tiny margin on the day, a lot will depend on Tottenham\u2019s start to the game, I think if they were to go a goal down, the nerves would kick in. One of Tottenham\u2019s biggest problems is their creativity, chances, they can\u2019t score goals!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think West Ham will beat Leeds and I\u2019ve got a bad feeling here. I want Tottenham to stay up but I\u2019ve got a bad feeling they\u2019re going to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-preview-spurs-everton-west-ham-guardiola-salah-spygate-final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Weekend: Spurs v Everton, West Ham, Pep Guardiola, Mo Salah, Spygate Final<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League legend Alan Shearer is expecting Tottenham to stay up on goal difference on Sunday as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-464469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}