Former Crystal Palace owner and talkSPORT pundit Simon Jordan says Leeds United and Leicester City are now both in real trouble after the latest round of Premier League fixtures. Both dropped into the bottom three as a result of Everton and Nottingham Forest winning at the weekend.
Both sides are two points adrift of the Toffees and three behind Steve Cooper's Forest, with just three games to play. Sean Dyche's Everton thrashed high-flying Brighton to give their survival bid a boost in the arm, while Cooper's men beat basement club Southampton to all but condemn the Saints to life in the Championship next season.
Jordan told talkSPORT: "That performance, Doucoure's performance, Dwight McNeil's performance, the energy and vitality of that performance has put Everton now, in a rather better position than anyone anticipated they'd be in.
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"If you look at the run-ins, forget the Man City game, you look at Wolves and look at Bournemouth and think to yourself neither one of these teams have anything to play for bar professionalism and we can question that sometimes at the back end of the season.
"You start to move the dial saying they've just thrown themselves the biggest lifelines anyone could've possibly contemplated. Obviously Forest did their job last night, but Leicester now look - Southampton have gone - Leeds' run-in looks, irrespective of the Sam [Allardyce] factor, they've got real troubles.
"You look at it and say it's difficult to see past them [Leeds and Leicester]. We've just seen a set of results, the Forest result, they had to win that game.
"I was with a group of Forest fans that are good mates of mine, one of them I took the Spurs game when Spurs played Forest. He said to me 'we're very nervous about the game [against Southampton]'
"But Forest have been better in recent weeks both home and away. They've been more determined. They've been quite unlucky.
"They were quite unlucky against Brentford. They were stronger in that side away from home than they have been all season and they still came out with a defeat.
"Now they've put themselves in a great position and the pressure on Leeds and Leicester has just ramped up several notches."
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