If West Ham United are going to survive in the Premier League this season, there’s little doubt we’ll have to do it the hard way — because nobody appears to be doing us any favours.
Aside from Leeds United beating Nottingham Forest on Friday night, many of the sides we were hoping might slide into poor form simply aren’t obliging.
Plenty had pinned hopes on Crystal Palace continuing their mid-season slump and drifting towards the relegation places. After all, West Ham’s victory over Burnley FC meant the Eagles were just six points above us heading into their derby trip to Brighton & Hove Albion.
Unfortunately, Palace ground out a 1–0 win against a Brighton side who looked completely incapable of testing Dean Henderson.
Yes, Tottenham Hotspur lost to Manchester United, keeping them within touching distance — but the reality is clear now.
West Ham must take care of their own form.
Tuesday Night Feels Massive Already
It’s increasingly likely that the points total required for Premier League survival will be higher than in previous seasons. Let’s just hope West Ham aren’t left rueing dropped points from that dreadful Christmas run, when several fixtures looked ripe for wins.
Recent form has at least been encouraging. Even the defeat to Chelsea offered positives for Nuno Espírito Santo, while the performances either side of it have shown real signs of life.
But if we were hoping for crumbs of comfort from mid-table sides regularly slipping up, we may well be out of luck.
Which is why Tuesday night suddenly feels enormous.
A home win against Manchester United at the London Stadium would be massive — not just for the table, but for belief.
Because right now, West Ham’s survival is firmly in our own hands. And if we’re going to stay up, it looks like we’ll have to earn every single point ourselves.
A great result against Burnley. However for Burnley to have 18 shots doesn’t bode well for Tuesday nights game.
We need to take the game to the reds , no sitting back.
The premiership is so poor im getting fed up with it the football aint any good anymore its not entertaining its about money now im not bothered if we get relegated i like the championship better no var more to play for you wait until teams are safe they will get beat every week always on the beach. Bring on relegation.
Palace spent money, they paid for some ambition.
Tottenham are on the worst form but I think we’ve got to outperform Forest by four points between now and the end of the season.
We will be relegated because of the 2 defeats to wolves and forest and nuno has to take responsibility for those.