Ruud van Nistelrooy, Supervisor of Leicester Metropolis, reacts in direction of Samuel Barrott through the Premier League match towards Arsenal on February 15, 2025. (Picture by Michael Regan/Getty Pictures)
Leicester Metropolis misplaced one other sport, this time on Friday night time towards Brentford, and that meant that the Foxes set a brand new all-time report.
It’s not been the perfect season for the Midlands-based facet and that would go some method to explaining why Jamie Vardy might signal for one more Premier League membership and why Wilfred Ndidi might find yourself at Atletico Madrid.
Van Nistelrooy’s undesirable report
In actual fact, ought to Leicester fall by way of the relegation lure door, there’s more likely to be a mass exodus of gamers who gained’t wish to need to play a tricky Championship season in 25/26.
If the Foxes do go down, that’s more likely to be the tip of van Nistelrooy as nicely, until the membership hierarchy resolve to sack him earlier than then.
The Dutchman has endured what must be one of many worst runs of any supervisor anyplace since taking up from Steve Cooper.
Since beating West Ham in his opening sport on December 3 final 12 months, and drawing towards Brighton in van Nistelrooy’s second sport in cost, Leicester have solely overwhelmed Queens Park Rangers within the FA Cup and Tottenham within the Premier League.
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They’ve misplaced the opposite 11 video games, and after the 4-0 defeat towards the Bees, a match wherein Yoane Wissa, Bryan Mbeumo, Christian Norgaard and Fabio Carvalho all scored, Leicester stay in nineteenth place.
Leicester more likely to be relegated underneath Ruud van Nistelrooy
Wolves are two factors and two locations above them, however there’s then an eight level hole to West Ham, so the chances are high that the three that go down will come from the groups which can be presently within the backside 4.
If van Nistelrooy didn’t have sufficient to fret about over the following few video games, he has additionally set a brand new all-time report of getting misplaced six residence video games in a row with out scoring.
That’s by no means occurred earlier than in English top-flight soccer historical past and will nicely be the ultimate nail in van Nistelrooy’s coffin.
