Ruud van Nistelrooy, Supervisor of Leicester Metropolis, reacts in direction of Samuel Barrott in the course of the Premier League match towards Arsenal on February 15, 2025. (Photograph by Michael Regan/Getty Pictures)
Leicester Metropolis misplaced one other recreation, this time on Friday evening towards Brentford, and that meant that the Foxes set a brand new all-time report.
It’s not been one of the best season for the Midlands-based aspect and that might go some solution to explaining why Jamie Vardy may signal for one more Premier League membership and why Wilfred Ndidi may find yourself at Atletico Madrid.
Van Nistelrooy’s undesirable report
In truth, ought to Leicester fall by the relegation entice door, there’s prone to be a mass exodus of gamers who gained’t wish to need to play a troublesome Championship season in 25/26.
If the Foxes do go down, that’s prone to be the top of van Nistelrooy as effectively, until the membership hierarchy determine 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 recreation on December 3 final yr, and drawing towards Brighton in van Nistelrooy’s second recreation in cost, Leicester have solely overwhelmed Queens Park Rangers within the FA Cup and Tottenham within the Premier League.
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 prone 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 at present within the backside 4.
If van Nistelrooy didn’t have sufficient to fret about over the subsequent few video games, he has additionally set a brand new all-time report of getting misplaced six dwelling 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 effectively be the ultimate nail in van Nistelrooy’s coffin.
