Premier League and FA Cup semi-final predictions: Chris Sutton v Race Across the World: The Detour podcast travel expert Alfie Watts – & AI

Tottenham couldn’t beat Wolves earlier in the season at home – they needed a 94th-minute equalizer to avoid defeat in September – but they simply have to beat them this time.

Can Roberto de Zerbi’s side win three of their last five games and save themselves from the drop?

Of course they can, but it has to start here. Imagine the psychological damage to the Spurs players and their fans if they don’t win this one.

Wolves is officially off now, but we know it’s going to happen for a while.

The pressure is all on Spurs, and for them to find a way to win this game.

If Thomas Frank had remained in charge and maintained his record of 1.12 points per game, Spurs would now be on 37 points, in 16th place.

Instead, they are in the relegation zone, worrying about how the teams above them are doing, as well as trying to pick up points themselves.

From looking at them, there is nothing to suggest that Tottenham will win this time after failing to win any of their previous 15 league matches.

Likewise, they haven’t kept a clean sheet for 14 league games, so why would they manage one now?

But I’m going to go against the grain here. Spurs absolutely have to win this game, so I’m going to say they will – and that too Wolves will not score.

I know it’s a ridiculous prediction, and I don’t even really believe it will happen myself, but then nothing about Spurs’ season makes sense when you study it.

Sutton’s prediction: 0-1

Alfie’s prediction: I just feel like if we lose it, we’re down. There will be no coming back from that as we still have to go to Villa Park and Stamford Bridge.

It’s possible we’ll have a few more attacking players back for this game, but I’m going to be positive here anyway – I can’t go against my own team, especially when we’re against the team who are bottom of the league and have won three games all season. 1-2

Alfie on why Spurs are struggling: We’ve had a lot of injuries, but I don’t think we can hide behind them. We’ve had the same back five for most of this season and we haven’t stopped conceding.

You can probably put our lack of goals down to some players being out, but when you celebrate home and away against Arsenal and three at home to Forest, can you blame injuries – or are we just rubbish?

AI’s prediction: 1-2