West Ham United were relegated from the Premier League on the final day, despite a 3-0 victory over Leeds United. The result was not enough to overhaul Tottenham Hotspur, who held a two-point advantage and a superior goal difference entering the last matchday.<\/p>\n
Spurs produced a lively start and were rewarded shortly before halftime when Jo\u00e3o Palhinha finished a scrappy effort from a Mathys Tel corner to give Roberto De Zerbi\u2019s side the lead. That advantage proved decisive: Tottenham secured the three points needed to guarantee their place in the division next season.<\/p>\n
West Ham staged a stirring late response in their game as Taty Castellanos headed the Hammers ahead with just over 20 minutes remaining. Jarrod Bowen added a second and Callum Wilson clipped a stoppage-time third, completing the 3-0 scoreline against Leeds, but Spurs refused to surrender their winning position.<\/p>\n
The outcome consigns West Ham to the Championship alongside Burnley and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Replacements in the top flight will be Coventry City, Ipswich Town and playoff winners Hull City.<\/p>\n
Relegation ends West Ham\u2019s 14-year stay in the Premier League and marks only their third drop to the second tier since 1993. The club\u2019s recent history in the Championship includes coming up short in the playoff final in 2003-04 before winning promotion the following season, and responding to their previous relegation by winning the playoffs in 2011-12.<\/p>\n
There is reason for cautious optimism at London Stadium because West Ham have a strong record in the second tier, and they will be among the favourites to return at the first attempt. Much will depend on how many members of the current squad remain at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spurs held on as West Ham’s 3-0 win over Leeds proved insufficient on the final day kept their place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1249,172,1464],"tags":[1162],"class_list":["post-14028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-championship","category-epl","category-tottenham","tag-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}