West Ham United’s recent revival has not been enough to convince prominent pundit Simon Jordan that they can stay in the Premier League.
Indeed, results went somewhat against West Ham United over the weekend.
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Hours after Nuno Espirito Santo’s side climbed out of the relegation zone in the Premier League table for the first time since early December, draws for Nottingham Forest and Tottenham put them straight back in there.
Sadly, West Ham remain slight statistical favourites for relegation with eight games left, with the Irons currently in the Premier League’s bottom three on goal difference.
Jordan thinks West Ham might have been dispirited
Jordan just doesn’t think they’ll get out of it, suggesting that the mental blow of falling back below the line could be dispiriting.
Speaking on talkSPORT, he said: “If I’m West Ham and I go and take a point off Man City, who you expected to react after the beating they took at Real Madrid and needed to react to keep themselves in the Premier League race, and yet they still find themselves at the end of the weekend in the bottom three, there’s an element of dispiriting about that.”
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He added: “I still feel, and I’m not going to change my view, that West Ham might find themselves still getting relegated.”
Jordan later said: “For whatever reason, and I’m happy to be wrong. I may well be, I often am. That some way, Tottenham are going to find a way through – not because of the manager, because of the players.”
It’s easy to see why Jordan would think that, given what happened for most of the first half of the season.
However, it perhaps overlooks what has happened in recent weeks, or since mid-January when West Ham beat relegation rivals Spurs.
| Position | Team | Played MP | Won W | Drawn D | Lost L | For GF | Against GA | Diff GD | Points Pts |
| 16 |  TottenhamTottenham | 30 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 40 | 47 | -7 | 30 |
| 17 |  Nottingham ForestNottingham Forest | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 28 | 43 | -15 | 29 |
| 18 |  West HamWest Ham | 30 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 36 | 55 | -19 | 29 |
| 19 |  BurnleyBurnley | 30 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 32 | 58 | -26 | 20 |
| 20 |  WolvesWolves | 30 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 52 | -30 | 16 |
That was nine games ago and, since, West Ham sit sixth in the form table. Spurs are bottom, while Forest are 16th.
Dropping back into the relegation zone is a blow for West Ham, after such a strong defensive effort.
Still, Nuno wasn’t getting carried away by West Ham’s improvement anyway.
They didn’t achieve anything by getting out of the bottom three on Saturday evening, and lost nothing when they dropped back into it on Sunday afternoon.
It is clearly not an ideal situation to be in but West Ham United certainly have all the momentum in the relegation battle.
With Spurs and Forest playing each other next weekend while the Irons are at Aston Villa, there is a chance they can make further ground in their pursuit of safety rather imminently.
West Ham may well get relegated in the end, but what they have done is give themselves a chance.
The fact that it is even a debate perhaps speaks to the paradigm shift at the bottom of the Premier League table.
West Ham are alive and while they remain in the fight of their lives, there’s every reason to believe they can get out of it.
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