Neville Says Spurs Have Four-Point Chance Against Leeds — Sky Sports Football

sky sports football has Tottenham with a clear target on Monday night: beat Leeds United and move four points clear. Gary Neville said the chance gives Spurs a massive incentive after Arsenal’s 1-0 win over West Ham on Sunday kept them out of the drop zone.

Neville’s Spurs warning

Neville said Tottenham needed their great rivals to do them a favour, and Arsenal did exactly that with the 1-0 result at the weekend. He said the reward for Spurs is simple if they handle their part at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

“They [Spurs] now have an opportunity to go four points clear, and that’s a massive, massive incentive to go into that game, and they needed their great rivals to do them a favour.”

Leeds at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

The match was due to be played on Monday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Spurs still trying to pull away from the relegation fight that has hovered over their campaign. Neville said Leeds had already secured salvation after West Ham lost on Sunday, which changes the edge of the meeting.

“If you’ve already won the title, you step off it. If you’re already safe from relegation, you step off it. Those things naturally do happen.”

That leaves Tottenham needing only their own result to take control of the situation. Neville said if Spurs do the job against Leeds, “that’s it, they’ll get over the line, and it’ll be too much for West Ham.”

West Ham’s costly Sunday

West Ham’s defeat was shaped by a stoppage-time equalizer that was disallowed after a five minute VAR review, turning a possible point into a 1-0 loss. Neville said he thought Nuno Espirito Santo knew at the end, once the goal was ruled out, that “potentially that could be it” and that he needed something from the game.

For Tottenham, the calculation is now clean. Beat Leeds, and the gap becomes four points; miss the chance, and the pressure that has followed them all season stays in place for another round.