{"id":41618,"date":"2026-04-25T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/premier-league-relegation-battle-is-it-between-west-ham-and-spurs-after-forest-win\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:52:15","slug":"premier-league-relegation-battle-is-it-between-west-ham-and-spurs-after-forest-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/premier-league-relegation-battle-is-it-between-west-ham-and-spurs-after-forest-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League relegation battle: Is it between West Ham and Spurs after Forest win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/nottingham-forest\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> struck the first blow of the weekend on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> &#8211; unusually &#8211; both play at the same time on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hammers host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/everton\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Everton<\/a> and former manager David Moyes, with Spurs visiting already relegated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wolverhampton-wanderers\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a> boss De Zerbi, whose side conceded a last-minute equaliser to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c624d23p4d5t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">draw 2-2 with Brighton<\/a> in their previous fixture, said &#8220;a win can change this part of the season&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are suffering, they are suffering because it is not easy to play in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a> in this condition of the table, but I said they have to be stronger,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to live every part of the day waiting for a win and preparing for a win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> have to contend with similar run-ins, with Spurs arguably facing the slightly easier of the two. The average position of the teams they still have to play is 11th, while for the Hammers it is 10th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> do have which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a> do not, however, is some semblance of form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nuno&#8217;s team have won two and lost just one of their past five matches. Spurs have not won since last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The players are improving their levels and the standards,&#8221; said Nuno. &#8220;We have been solid in defence, good in attack&#8230; sometimes not so good. Finding that balance in the remaining matches is going to be crucial for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c30rgm097vyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Nottingham Forest struck the first blow of the weekend on Friday, Tottenham and West Ham &#8211; unusually &#8211; both play at the same time on Saturday. The Hammers host Everton and former manager David Moyes, with Spurs visiting already relegated Wolves. Tottenham boss De Zerbi, whose side conceded a last-minute equaliser to draw 2-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41620,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41618\/revisions\/41620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}