{"id":1733,"date":"2014-02-11T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2014-02-11T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:45:05","slug":"tottenham-manager-hopes-liverpool-drops-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/tottenham-manager-hopes-liverpool-drops-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Manager Hopes Liverpool Drops Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood says his team are relying on fourth-placed Liverpool to drop points in the battle for Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n

Fifth-placed Spurs are three points behind the Reds with 13 games of the Premier League season remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cManchester United will put a run together and be right up there\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim SherwoodTottenham manager<\/div>\n

The two sides meet in a potentially-decisive game at Anfield on 30 March.<\/p>\n

“There’s always someone who could drop a couple of points but our big rivals Liverpool are flying. We need them to trip up,” said Sherwood, 45.<\/p>\n

And he believes his team could possibly afford to lose as many as five games and still finish in the top four to reach next season’s Champions League.<\/p>\n

“Maths isn’t my strong point, but I would say you can afford to lose another four or five games out of what we have got left,” added the ex-England international.<\/p>\n

When asked if nine wins from their remaining matches would be enough, Sherwood replied: “It could well be.”<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Tottenham beat Everton,\u00a0another team with ambitions of Champions League qualification – to move above their opponents into fifth.<\/p>\n

They are six points clear of seventh-placed Manchester United, who were later held to a 2-2 home draw against bottom side Fulham.<\/p>\n

Sherwood says any side down to ninth place, including Newcastle, who Spurs visit in the Premier League\u00a0on Wednesday, are still capable of claiming a top-four place.<\/p>\n

\u00a0”fourth place is tough” sherwood<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood says his team are relying on fourth-placed Liverpool to drop points in the battle for Champions League qualification. Fifth-placed Spurs are three points behind the Reds with 13 games of the Premier League season remaining. \u201cManchester United will put a run together and be right up there\u201d Tim SherwoodTottenham manager The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}