The nerves will be jangling for Nottingham Forest as they take on Tottenham, looking to gain a big three points in the fight for Premier League survival.
Forest thrashed Tottenham 3-0 earlier in the season at the City Ground, and a repeat of that result would be just the tonic to spark life into the fight to avoid relegation.
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Both teams had good wins in midweek, with Tottenham beating Atletico Madrid but still crashing out of the Champions League and Forest progressing in the Europa League after a win against FC Midtjylland.
Ahead of today’s game, Jermaine Jenas is one man with his foot in both camps, having played for both clubs, and he believes the hosts will prevail today.
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Jermaine Jenas predicts Tottenham to beat Forest
It will kill Jenas to say it as he’s a Forest fan, but he does believe that Tottenham will come out on top of the club where his playing career started on Sunday.
Tottenham have been vastly improved in games with Atletico and last week against Liverpool but Forest have also been much better under Vitor Pereira.
Jenas doesn’t envisage Tottenham being in relegation trouble for much longer and thinks it will be his other former club who inject life into their survival push.
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He said on the Wildcards podcast: “I still think Spurs have got enough to get themselves out of it. Whereas I think if Spurs win this game, I think Forest are bang in trouble. So it’s one of them where, I don’t know, I’m just leaning on… My mind keeps changing week in, week out for Spurs, but I feel like they might have just run into a tiny bit of just, like, hope.
“And I fully expect them to get a result on Sunday, which is not going to be great for Forest, and then Forest is going to be battling it out with West Ham.”
Whoever does lose the game today will be massively up against it with seven games of the campaign remaining.
Forest do have home games to come against Aston Villa and Burnley after the trip to Tottenham, but the sooner the team can pick up points, the better.
All eyes will be on North London this afternoon and the hope will be that Jenas will be proved wrong late today and the Reds have got three massive points around 4pm on Sunday.
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