{"id":622639,"date":"2026-05-04T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:25:10","slug":"premier-league-relegation-battle-after-tottenham-hotspurs-win-who-will-go-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622639\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League relegation battle: After Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s win, who will go down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>De Zerbi&#8217;s passion is &#8216;what Spurs needed&#8217;published at 09:50 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:50 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/49f0c2dc-ab21-40e8-a541-cb89c9bc6f1a.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Stephen Kelly<br \/>Former Tottenham defender on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tottenham celebrations\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/899290f2-ac59-494c-90dc-54169b10d81b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"970\" height=\"545\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just seeing yourself out of the relegation zone can be such a massive lift; it can just give you the head<br \/>\nspace to think, &#8216;right, we&#8217;ve actually got ourselves out there, and now we just have to keep ourselves out of there&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But I think what&#8217;s lovely is Roberto de Zerbi&#8217;s kind<br \/>\nof passion on the sideline and I just love that he&#8217;s so energetic and so passionate. I just<br \/>\nthink that&#8217;s what Spurs needed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I was worried<br \/>\nwhen he came at first because there were talks about how long it takes to implement a<br \/>\nstyle for the players to get a hold of. But I think he&#8217;s obviously put that to<br \/>\none side and just gone, &#8216;listen, we need energy, we need pace, we need passion&#8217; and he&#8217;s shown that and it&#8217;s coming out in his players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So I think they<br \/>\nhave a great chance and fingers crossed they do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Zerbi&#8217;s passion is &#8216;what Spurs needed&#8217;published at 09:50 BST 09:50 BST Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham Stephen KellyFormer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-622639","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\/622639","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=622639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}