Run-in: The Premier League relegation battle

The 2021-22 Premier League season has reached the business end of the campaign and the ‘run-in’ is going to be wild up and down the league.

Focusing on the Premier League relegation battle, there are seven teams scrapping to stay in the Premier League. We know three will go down but it is getting so tight and tense at the bottom of the table.

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Norwich City and Watford look to be fighting an uphill battle, but they’ve shown they can spring surprises. As for Burnley, they will always battle until the very end and this is not their first rodeo as Sean Dyche embraces the challenge.

Everton and Leeds United are both in serious trouble entering the final few months of the season as neither side would have expected to be in a relegation scrap. While Brentford and Newcastle look to have found form at the right time, as the latter looked doomed just a few weeks ago but have won five of their last six to push themselves up the table.

Below we focus on the standings, fixtures and analyze the survival hopes for the teams in the Premier League relegation scrap, and we will update this article each week between now and the end of the season.

14th: Newcastle United – 28 points (26 games played) GD -16 15th: Brentford – 27 points (28 games) GD -15 16th: Leeds United – 23 points (27 games) GD -32 17th: Everton – 22 points (25 games) GD -18

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18th: Burnley – 21 points (26 games) GD -14 19th: Watford – 19 points (27 games) GD -23 20th: Norwich City – 17 points (27 games) GD -42

Dean Smith has gone a good job to give Norwich a fighting chance as they enter the last few months. But now they have to kick on. Games against Leeds, Brighton and Burnley coming up are key, as they have