Tottenham and Nottingham Forest are on the other side of the Premier League table, with an important walk-in for both.
Forest still has a Champions League place, with the race for European football in a tight upper half of the table.
Their grasp in third place slipped after recent defeats, and with Newcastle United that rises above them in the midweek, Forest has to go back to winning ways on Monday.
In the meantime, striving for Spurs to save a little proudly after a tumultuous season that Ange has seen Postecoglou see under increasing pressure.
Their hope for winning silverware lives even after booking their place in the semi-final of the Europa League on Thursday-one result that has facilitated part of the control of the Australian marginal.
With the time to prevent a low finish in the Premier League, Spurs will gladly find some momentum on their way to the last six games of the season.
Here, with the help of Opta data, we dive into the most important insights prior to the collision of Monday in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
What is expected?
Given the gap between these two sides in the table, Bos is probably expected to be at the top of Monday's meeting.
However, they have struggled lately, just like Spurs, who urgently need a victory if they want to end their season at a peak.
Tottenham has won each of their last three Home League matches against Forest, after they have won only one of their previous 11 against them (D2 L8).
And Spurs won their last home outing and sealed the fate of Southampton with a 3-1 win earlier this month.
The 1-0 victory of Forest in the reverse match ended a six-game Losing Streak against Spurs in the Premier League. They last did the competition about them in the 1996-97 campaign and won this exact game with 1-0 that time.
There is little to split the teams according to the OPTA Supercomputer, with a draw a probably result with 24.9%.
Spurs are more likely to win three points, given their home advantage at 38.9%, although forest cannot be explained; They win in 36.3% of the 10,000 pre-match simulations.
Postecoglou is still fighting
This season a lot has been made of Spurs' struggles, where Postecoglou meets that the pressure does not touch him.
Many thought that a loss would be the decision maker in his future on Thursday, but Spurs fought against a 1-0 victory over Frankfurt in their quarterfinals second stage thanks to the sentence of Dominic Solanke.
“Unfortunately you will have to tolerate me a little longer,” his message was after that victory, but he knows that Spurs is needed to get results in the competition.
Tottenham has already had 17 defeats this season in the Premier League, their most since 2003-04 (19, finished 14th). As such, Postecoglou is one of the three Spurs bosses who lose 17+ games in a season, together with Osvaldo Ardiles in 1993-94 (19) and Gerry Francis in 1996-97 (18).
Only the current Bottom three clubs – Southampton (26), Leicester (22) and Ipswich (19) – have even lost more Premier League matches than they did.
It also went so well at the start of the season. But because they hampered Manchester City 4-0 on November 23, 2024, only Ipswich Town (13), Leicester City (eight) and Southampton (six) picked up fewer points than Spurs '18.
Indeed, they have lost 12 of the 20 games since they beat the ruling champions (W5 D3) in what a monumental slide has been.
So a trip to one of the high-flying teams of the competition is not ideal for the side of Postcoglou, who have lost 16 of their last 20 top-flight matches against teams that start the day in the upper half of the table (W3 D1).
Spurs won their last home game, with the 3-1 victory that Southampton sends to the championship. But after having won only two of their last 11 league games in the home floor, the biggest goal of Postecoglou to improve that record, starting on Monday.
Forest look out to get a feet on the ground in Champions League -Push
It went so well for the forest at the beginning of April, were third in the table and close a stumbling arsenal after a 1-0 win over Manchester United on the first of the month.
However, they have lost each of their last two Premier League matches after they have won three in a row in advance. Only once under Nuno Espirito Santo did they have three defeats in a row, and do this between February and March last season.
As a result of Newcastle's victory on Wednesday, Forest went to fourth place and could slip out of the top five against Monday's kick -off, depending on other results this weekend.
Yet little can be removed from the impressive season of Forest.
The OPTA Supercomputer says that their chances of ending up at a Champions League spot are currently 71.4%, although they are probably fifth on 25 May (30.5%).
Forest has won 12 of their last 14 Premier League matches against teams that start the day in the bottom half of the table (L2), although a winning run of nine games in such games was last time-out by Everton.
Maybe the Easter weekend will help to turn the tide. The difficult trees have only lost two of their last 35 league matches on Easter Monday (W21 D12).
And their record is even better in the top. They have been unbeaten in 16 (W13 D3) since a 1-0 loss at Chelsea in 1966.
Nuno will certainly consider this to be a big chance to push their top five back on the right track, and with one of the strictest defenses in the competition behind them (only Liverpool and Arsenal have admitted less than Forest's 38 goals this period), they should certainly feel like their chances.
Players to watch
Tottenham – Mathys Tel
The 19-year-old Mathys Tel scored in each of his last two Premier League performances for Tottenham.
He only became the fifth teenager who scored in back-to-back performances for Tottenham in the competition against Wolves, the first since Parte Alli in February 2016.
No teenager has ever scored for Spurs in three in a row, while only three non-English teenagers generally did Robbie Keane in January 2000 for Coventry, Nicolas Anelka twice in 1998-99 for Arsenal and Romelu Lukaku in March 2013 for West Brom.
Nottingham Forest – Jota Silva
Jota Silva scored Premier League matches for Nottingham Forest in each of his last two away, both as a replacement.
All three of his goals in the competition have come from the bank and score those of 13 shots, while in five games he had eight shots in five games without finding the net.
It is the joint sub goals of a forest player in a Premier League season, together with the three goals of Jason Lee in 1994-95.
They have all come since the turn of the year, without player who processed more goals from the bank in 2025 (level with Fulham's Rodrigo Muniz).