West Ham restored their two-point cushion between Tottenham and the bottom three as they drew 0-0 at Crystal Palace to confirm Wolves' relegation from the Premier League.
Spurs endured a nightmare weekend, but this result opens the door for Roberto De Zerbi's side in their fight for survival ahead of their trip to Wolves, whose eight-year stay in the top flight has officially been brought to an end.
West Ham have given themselves another week outside the drop zone but may look back on this as a missed opportunity with the toughest final five games of all the teams battling relegation.
Nuno Espirito Santo's side failed to create a big opening in the second half and very nearly conceded a late goal only for Ismaila Sarr's strike to be ruled out for an unnecessary handball by fellow Palace substitute Jean-Philippe Mateta.
Late in the first half West Ham's Taty Castellanos had an acrobatic effort that was heading in cleared by Crystal Palace defender Maxence Lacroix – who overcame an injury scare to start – after Dean Henderson's miscued clearance nearly left the goal gaping.
Henderson made amends shortly after his error by producing a fine save to keep out Konstantinos Mavropanos. The West Ham defender, scorer of two goals in the win over Wolves, perhaps could have done better, his header too close to the keeper.
Former Tottenham winger Brennan Johnson, yet to score since his £35m January move, spurned a glorious chance to give Palace an early lead against the run of play, heading well wide when completely unmarked in the box.
For all the talk of Palace potentially dropping off after their celebrations in Florence on Thursday after reaching the Conference League semi-finals, Oliver Glasner's side finished the stronger and extend their unbeaten run to four games to move up to 13th.
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