Forest pile more misery on Spurs with ruthless 3-0 win as relegation battle heats up
There are bad results and then there are results that feel like the ground is shifting beneath your feet. This was the latter for Tottenham. A 3-0 home defeat to a side that started the day below them in the table, in front of 61,519 supporters who had turned up hoping Igor Tudor could spark something. He could not.
Spurs dominate, Forest punish
The cruel part is that Tottenham were not terrible in the first half. They had the ball, won corners, created half-chances. But Forest sat deep, stayed compact and waited. The sucker punch arrived right on the stroke of half time when Igor Jesus headed home to send the away fans into raptures and silence the home crowd. Tudor hauled off two players at the break, bringing on Destiny Udogie and Lucas Bergvall, but it made little difference.
Gibbs-White twists the knife
Morgan Gibbs-White made it 2-0 on 62 minutes, a goal that carried extra sting given Spurs had reportedly tried to sign him in the summer. By that point Tottenham looked beaten. The heads dropped, the crowd grew restless, and Forest sensed blood. Substitute Taiwo Awoniyi wrapped things up three minutes from time, finishing off a move that summed up Forest's composure on the day.
Tudor still without a league win
The numbers around Tottenham are grim reading. Tudor has been in charge since mid-February after Thomas Frank was sacked on February 11, and he is still waiting for his first Premier League victory. Spurs have not won a league game since December 28, a drought stretching nearly three months. They sit 17th on 30 points, just a single point above 18th-placed West Ham and the dotted line that separates survival from catastrophe.
Forest, by contrast, climb to 16th on 32 points with the win. Vitor Pereira will be pleased with how his side managed the game, defending with discipline and striking when it mattered. For them, this was a six-pointer won in style.
Seven games to save the season
The international break offers a pause, but the run-in for Spurs looks brutal. Seven league games remain and Tudor needs results fast. For a club that has never been relegated from the Premier League, the prospect of going down would be seismic. The fans know it, the players know it, and after today, it feels closer than ever.
