{"id":601883,"date":"2026-04-23T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:16:13","slug":"premier-league-fa-cup-semi-final-predictions-chris-sutton-v-race-across-the-world-the-detour-podcast-host-alfie-watts-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/601883\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League &#038; FA Cup semi-final predictions: Chris Sutton v Race Across the World: The Detour podcast host Alfie Watts &#8211; &#038; AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Premier League<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Molineux, 15:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> could not beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wolverhampton-wanderers\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolves<\/a> at home earlier in the season &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cd07445veext\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they needed a 94th-minute equaliser to avoid defeat in September<\/a> &#8211; but they simply have to beat them this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Can Roberto de Zerbi&#8217;s side win three of their final five games and save themselves from the drop? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of course they can, but it has to start here. Imagine the psychological damage to the Spurs players and their fans if they don&#8217;t win this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wolverhampton-wanderers\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolves<\/a> are officially down now, but we have known that will happen for a while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pressure is all on Spurs, and for them to find a way of winning this game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Thomas Frank had stayed in charge and maintained his record of 1.12 points per game, then Spurs would be on 37 points now, in 16th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, they are in the relegation zone and worrying about how the teams above them are doing as well as trying to pick up points themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From watching them, there is nothing that suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> will win this time after failing to win any of their previous 15 league games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similarly, they have not kept a clean sheet for 14 league games, so why would they manage one now?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But I am going to go against the grain here. Spurs absolutely must win this game, so I am going to say they will &#8211; and also that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wolverhampton-wanderers\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolves<\/a> won&#8217;t score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I know that is a ridiculous prediction, and I don&#8217;t even really believe it will happen myself,  but then nothing about Spurs&#8217; season makes sense when you study it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sutton&#8217;s prediction: 0-1<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alfie&#8217;s prediction: I just feel like if we lose this, we are down. There would be no coming back from it, because we still have to go to Villa Park and Stamford Bridge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is possible that we have got a couple more attacking players back available for this game but I am going to be positive here anyway &#8211; I can&#8217;t go against my own team, especially when we are against the team who are bottom of the league and have won three games all season. 1-2<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alfie on why Spurs are struggling: We&#8217;ve had lots of injuries but I don&#8217;t think we can hide behind that. We&#8217;ve had the same back five for most of this season and we haven&#8217;t stopped conceding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can probably put our lack of goals down to some players being out, but when you are conceding four home and away against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> and three at home to Forest, can you blame injuries &#8211; or are we just rubbish?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI&#8217;s prediction: 1-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League Molineux, 15:00 Tottenham could not beat Wolves at home earlier in the season &#8211; they needed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-601883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}