Leeds United, Tottenham, West Ham, Nottingham Forest, Crystal Palace: Who has the hardest and easiest run-ins?

Leeds United have just seven games left in their fight for Premier League survival - but who has the ‘easiest’ run-in of the teams battling to avoid the drop?

Daniel Farke’s Whites have gone four games without scoring a goal but two of those contests ended in 0-0 draws and Leeds sit four points clear of the relegation zone after 31 matches played.

United are four points clear of third-bottom West Ham but also three points ahead of fourth-bottom Tottenham Hotspur and also hold a one-point advantage over fifth-bottom Nottingham Forest.

There is then a six-point gap up to 14th-placed Crystal Palace who themselves are three points adrift of both Newcastle United and Bournemouth who already appear pretty much safe on 42 points, a comment which might also be applied to Palace on 39 points.

At the foot of the table, the bookies also think that bottom two sides Wolves and Burnley are already as good as down, second-bottom Burnley nine points behind West Ham and Wolves 12 adrift.

Nevertheless, it means there are still seven teams very much still battling for Premier League survival if Palace are included but who has the hardest and easiest run in?

Here, we have worked out the average league position of each team’s remaining opponents and ranked the respective run ins from ‘hardest’ to ‘easiest’ based on those results.