{"id":458946,"date":"2026-03-05T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:23:08","slug":"premier-league-relegation-spurs-face-nervy-night-as-west-ham-forest-close-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458946\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League relegation: Spurs face nervy night as West Ham &#038; Forest close gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opta still has West Ham as heavy favourites to go downpublished at 13:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:15 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">OK, we did say we have had a lot of messages on Tottenham, didn&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s only fair to say at this point that there are other clubs in the Premier League currently staring down the barrel of relegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only three points separate Leeds United in 15th and West Ham in 18th &#8211; the third and final relegation place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But yes, Tottenham are just one point above the drop zone, while both West Ham and 17th-placed Nottingham Forest are level on 28 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the fight for survival looking like it&#8217;s going to go down to the wire, Opta still has the Hammers as heavy favourites to go down from these sides, even after their 1-0 win over Fulham last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nuno Espirito Santo&#8217;s side have a 52.72% chance of playing in the Championship next season, with Forest the next most likely at 29.92%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Strugglers Spurs and Leeds both have just over an 8% chance of relegation, but things could change in the coming weeks, with many of these sides coming up against each other before the season is up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opta still has West Ham as heavy favourites to go downpublished at 13:15 GMT 13:15 GMT OK, we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-458946","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458946","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=458946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}