Leicester City and Newcastle United went head-to-head in a 3pm Premier League meeting on Saturday.
The Foxes headed into the game aiming to continue their unbeaten start to life under Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Leicester City picked up a 3-1 victory in the Dutchman’s first game at the helm before drawing 2-2 with Brighton and Hove Albion last weekend.
Those four points meant that the Midlands outfit had opened up a five-point gap between themselves and the bottom three before kicking off at St James’ Park.
As for Newcastle, they were beaten 4-2 by Brentford in their last Premier League fixture, shipping seven goals in their previous two games.
Eddie Howe’s side were 12th in the table before the action got underway and though likely favourites as they were at home, a close game was expected.
Conor Coady was so poor for Leicester City vs Newcastle United
What Leicester supporters probably didn’t expect, however, was their side to be so bad on the day.
Jacob Murphy scored a brace either side of the break with goals from Bruno Guimaraes and Alexander Isak seeing Leicester lose 4-0 to Newcastle.
It was a dismal showing from the Midlands outfit who were not helped out by the referee.
Leicester fans think Bruno should have been sent off for Newcastle but even that poor call can’t excuse some of the performances on the day.
One player who was particularly woeful was Conor Coady, who cost his side a goal with a major error.
The former Wolverhampton Wanderers man has started the last two games under Ruud but he needs to be dropped after that showing.
Caleb Okoli is yet to start for Leicester under Van Nistelrooy but it’s clear he must come back into the eleven for next week’s meeting with Wolves.
Okoli has previously been labeled ‘promising’ and while he hasn’t been great since joining over the summer, he can’t be any worse than Coady was on Saturday.
Conor Coady’s Leicester City stats vs Newcastle United
The likes of Oliver Skipp and James Justin did not cover themselves in glory during the 90 minutes.
But Coady was by far and away the worst player on the pitch, especially when taking a closer look at his stats from the match.
As per Sofascore, the centre-back was given a team-low 5.6 rating, he won just one duel against Newcastle, lost possession eight times, made a key error leading to a goal, had 49 touches, was dribbled past once, and didn’t make a single interception.
Coady may have been looking forward to lining out against his ex-side next week, but there’s no way he should be in the eleven after that display.