No other Premier League club has failed to win a single game in 2026, and Tottenham Hotspur enter Sunday’s home fixture against Nottingham Forest having not converted that statistical curiosity into enough points to escape genuine danger.
Igor Tudor’s side sit seventeenth, one point above Forest and West Ham on goal difference, in a relegation picture that has been fluid for the past month but now feels as though it is beginning to settle into its final shape.
The 1-1 draw at Liverpool last weekend was Tudor’s most encouraging result of the tenure, with Spurs defending for long periods and taking a point from a ground where they had not taken anything in several visits, but the same game confirmed the limitations of a side that has scored just two goals from open play in calendar year 2026.
Forest arrive at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium having also drawn their last two league fixtures, including a goalless draw against Fulham on Sunday, and their own form has been concerning enough that they sit alongside Spurs at the wrong end of the table rather than safely clear of it.
Both West Ham and Wolves have been in better form than either of the teams they are chasing, with West Ham earning the eleventh-most points since New Year’s Day and Wolves posting a remarkable run that has included a draw at Arsenal and wins over Aston Villa and Liverpool in their last five matches.
Wolves’ situation remains mathematically dire, sitting thirteen points from safety with only seven games remaining, but their run of form has given their fixtures an importance they simply did not have when the season appeared to be over for them in January.
For Sunday’s match at Spurs, the key question is whether Tudor can identify a system that creates genuine goalscoring chances rather than simply limits the opposition’s ability to score, because a draw with Forest would maintain the current proximity of the drop zone rather than providing any meaningful breathing room.
Spurs have upcoming fixtures against West Ham and Wolves in April and May that directly affect both of those teams’ survival hopes, meaning the calendar works against easy points accumulation for Tudor even if Sunday produces the result Tottenham’s fans so desperately need.
The last time these clubs met in a six-pointer of this magnitude at this stadium, in November, Spurs won 2-0 with a performance that now feels like a distant memory from a different season entirely, which in some ways it was.
