{"id":421207,"date":"2026-02-12T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421207\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:16:09","slug":"premier-league-will-west-ham-make-40-point-mark-crucial-in-relegation-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421207\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Will West Ham make 40-point mark crucial in relegation fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 40-point mark – or thereabouts – could well be back in vogue when it comes to guaranteeing Premier League survival this term, with an in-form West Ham<\/a> attempting to chase down the sides above them. <\/p>\n

That mythical number has often been cited as the threshold at which managers, players and fans can relax – but the total has not actually been needed to stay up since 2010-11. <\/p>\n

Prior to that the only other occasions clubs were demoted with 40 points or more were 1996-97, 1997-98 and 2002-03. <\/p>\n

But could that be about to change? <\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a>, who are 18th in the top flight, are only three points behind 17th-placed Nottingham Forest<\/a>, who sacked manager Sean Dyche<\/a> after Wednesday’s goalless draw with Wolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Tottenham<\/a> – who sacked boss Thomas Frank on Wednesday<\/a> – are 16th, another two points ahead of Forest.<\/p>\n

With 12 games remaining history shows the Hammers are more than capable of surviving, and in Nuno Espirito Santo they have a manager who knows what it takes to stay up from his time at Forest.<\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a>‘s current points tally (24) is the most by any side in 18th at this stage of a campaign since 2019-20, when the Hammers recovered to stay up with 39 points. <\/p>\n

And they are arguably the form club in the lower reaches of the table, with three wins helping them take 10 points from their past five games. <\/p>\n

Leeds<\/a> also look to have found some momentum with recent wins over Fulham<\/a> and Forest as well as draws at Everton<\/a> and Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In contrast Spurs have managed a meagre four points from the previous 27 available to them. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, now managerless Forest have won just two of their past 10 games and fans of Brighton<\/a> and Crystal Palace<\/a> may also be looking over their shoulders. <\/p>\n

The 14th-placed Seagulls (31 points) are on a dismal run having won just one top-flight game since 30 November.<\/p>\n

Palace – who are a place and a point above Brighton<\/a> – have only tasted victory once since 7 December and most recently let a two-goal lead slip as they lost to struggling Burnley.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 40-point mark – or thereabouts – could well be back in vogue when it comes to guaranteeing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}