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Spurs meet relegation rivals in huge game at bottom of Premier League
Tottenham face Nottingham Forest on Sunday
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Tottenham face relegation rivals Nottingham Forest in a huge game in their battle to stay up in the Premier League.
Spurs are just one point above the bottom three but Igor Tudor’s side are boosted by their Champions League win over Atletico Madrid on Wednesday.
With West Ham also in action at Aston Villa on Sunday, defeat for Spurs could see them drop in the relegation zone for the first time this season.
But victory would be a major boost to their survival chances.
Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the game…
Date, kick-off time and venue
Tottenham vs Nottingham Forest is scheduled for a 2.15pm GMT kick-off on Sunday, March 22, 2026.
The match will take place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Where to watch Tottenham vs Nottingham Forest
TV channel: In the UK, the game will be televised live on Sky Sports Main Event, with coverage starting at 2pm GMT ahead of the 2.15pm kick off.
Live stream: Sky Sports subscribers can also catch the contest live online via the Sky Go app.
Live blog: You can follow all the action on matchday via Standard Sport’s live blog.
Tottenham vs Nottingham Forest team news
Guglielmo Vicario will start in goal for Tottenham, before undergoing a hernia operation next week.
Conor Gallagher, Destiny Udogie and Lucas Bergvall all returned from injury off the bench against Atletico Madrid, as the injury problems as Spurs begin to ease.
Joao Palhinha was able to train with his team-mates on Friday after concussion, while Spurs Dominic Solanke is expected to be fit to return.
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Forest needed extra-time and penalties to see off FC Midtjylland in the Europa League on Thursday, when Callum Hudson-Odoi was missing and Vitor Pereira clearly had one eye on Spurs as he made nine changes.
Tottenham vs Nottingham Forest prediction
Spurs will be fine this season if they play like they did against Atletico but Forest are tricky customers, as Manchester City found out.
It really does depend on which Spurs side turns up and whether they will be able to channel that European fight into domestic competition.
They are going to need to - with their top-flight status at stake - but will they?
Tottenham to win, 2-1.
Head to head (h2h) history and results
Tottenham wins: 59
Forest wins: 40
Draws: 29
Tottenham vs Nottingham Forest match odds
Tottenham to win: 29/20
Forest to win: 2/1
Draw: 23/10
Odds via Betfair (subject to change).
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As afternoon made way for evening, you could hear impassioned cheers from inside the bars and pubs along the High Road as jaded Spurs fans celebrated Nico O’Reilly’s goals against Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final. Truly, this was a day for schadenfreude and silver linings.
Many feel they should have removed Tudor long before this point and many more will now feel they have no choice, with the club spiralling towards relegation after a humiliating defeat in their six-pointer with rivals Forest.
Spurs had been good in the first half against Forest, undone by switching off from a corner but otherwise tidy and the better team. Tudor’s decision to replace Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence with Destiny Udogie and Lucas Bergvall made Spurs worse. Their second-half performance was error-filled and sluggish, and Tudor’s record of making substitutions that make little impact or a negative one is desperately poor.
Tudor meddled with the formation yet again and, with the possible exception of Xavi Simons, substitute on Sunday played worse than the man he replaced. Simons was the one bright spark who did come off the bench and there are some fans who fear Tudor not fancying the Dutchman is hurting their survival bid.
If they wish to act then Spurs must do so now, to give maximum time to get a replacement in and for them to work on the grass with those players not heading off on international duty. Free of Cheltenham, Harry Redknapp returns to the rumour mill. But, like after Thomas Frank was sacked in February, the options out there are few and far from ideal.
Equally, Spurs have been ravaged by injuries all season. Only a shell squad is available to Tudor, and, like their league campaign, the situation has threatened to get worse before it gets better. Mathys Tel, Spurs’s brightest spark on Sunday, went off with a suspected injury in the second half and will be scanned to see if he can still report for international duty. It prompts the question: dismal though Tudor’s record is, is it certain that a third manager of the season would do a better job with the players available?
And there is the obvious point, too. Would the players really benefit from yet more upheaval and another managerial change? Perhaps they would. Perhaps it would be third time lucky as Spurs make a late beeline for safety.
Or perhaps Tudor’s replacement would not have enough time to instil their own identity and get a tune out of them, too little too late. The Tottenham hierarchy will know they would risk taking one step back but never quite getting the two steps forward.
Spurs hired Tudor as a sergeant major to kick some life into a failing troop shot of confidence. More often than not, though, what players stuck in a rut need is an arm round the shoulder, not a crack of the whip. Whatever they decide, it is patently clear in this will-they-won’t-they moment that Tudor at Tottenham is not working.
Tottenham sit 16th in the Premier League and will host 17th-placed Forest, who trail them by one point, this weekend in a match which could have huge implications for the relegation battle.
Spurs have seen something of an uptick in form after drawing with Liverpool and beating Atletico Madrid in their last two fixtures, and fans are prepared to back the side as they face this crucial game.
It read in part: “Tottenham Hotspur means everything to us. It always has... To our team, our players, our coaching staff: we are right behind you... You will hear us.”
“After the game [vs Atletico], there was a beautiful sensation, feeling of togetherness with the fans. Very rare,” he said.
“I felt this enjoyment, I enjoyed feeling the sensation that we are doing good on the pitch, but together with them, together with the fans. That was really nice, rare.
“We need to continue all together this, if we can say, small positive moment after two games where we can recognise small but important things for the squad.”
He continued: “Yeah, there is a positivity, but also understanding the game [vs Forest], it is not easy. So, important game, but probably it will not decide anything after the game, independent of the results. We just need to keep going on what we did in the last two games.”
Vitor Pereira rotated heavily for the match so as to keep his stars fresh for the Spurs match, though Morgan Gibbs-White, Neco Williams and Murillo ended up playing nearly an hour after coming on in the second-half. Elliot Anderson played 45 minutes.
“There would be no advantage because the coach made it in the way so the players who started didn't play more than 60 minutes. So there would not be an advantage from this point of view.”
Xavi Simons will hope to keep his place in the Tottenham side for Sunday's crucial Premier League showdown with Nottingham Forest.
The two sides are separated by just a point in the relegation battle, and with Spurs having three weeks between this fixture and their next match, away at Sunderland, it is crucial they produce a positive result to keep the recent upturn in form going.
That was his first start since the defeat to Fulham at the start of the month, and it could be enough to keep his place in the side.
Tudor opted for effectively a 4-4-2 shape against Atletico, one that produced Spurs' best performance of the season and must be tempted to stick with it.
Destiny Udogie returned off the bench from a hamstring injury and could start against Forest, while Micky van de Ven is available again after serving a Premier League suspension.
Despite the trio being back, Archie Gray looks certain to keep his place after another superb display in midweek.
Richarlison missed the Atletico match due to suspension but is likely to come straight back into the starting lineup on Sunday.
Dominic Solanke did not train with his team-mates on Friday morning, but Tudor told reporters later in the day that he expects the striker to be available.