Leeds United are heading for an FA Cup quarter-final at West Ham - and receiving strong backing from the bookmakers in the club’s ultimate priority of sealing Premier League survival.
Daniel Farke’s Whites have now gone four league games without scoring a goal but two of those contests ended in goalless draws, keeping Leeds four points clear of the dropzone.
Bottom two sides Wolves and Burnley remain well adrift but the battle to avoid finishing third-bottom appears to be a clear four-horse race between Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham and West Ham although Crystal Palace are not yet completely out of the woods.
Fifth-bottom Forest are now hot on United’s heels following last weekend’s 3-0 win at Tottenham which has left Forest just one point behind 15th-placed Leeds who are three points ahead of fourth-bottom Spurs and four clear of third-bottom West Ham.
Leeds will visit both Spurs and West Ham in the relegation-battle run in in two massive and potentially decisive games.
Attention will back to the FA Cup next weekend as Leeds visit relegation rivals West Ham, the club’s fight for Premier League survival then set to resume the following weekend with a Monday night trip to Manchester United.
But the relegation betting markets are continually changing and the bookies have now made a very strong fresh Whites call in their new predicted final table based on the very latest odds for the drop.
Here, using title odds for sides expected to end up in the top half, is how they now think the final table will look.