Leicester City fans will be excited for the 2024/25 campaign to end and for good reason.
The Foxes find themselves in 19th position in the table and with no chance of achieving Premier League survival unless they claw back a nine-point deficit.
Alarmingly, it’s an embarrassing 13 losses in 14 league matches for Leicester City, who set an unwanted record against Manchester United.
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men became the first team in Premier League history to lose seven matches in a row without scoring in any of them.
Now, once Leicester’s players return from the international break, they will be at risk of breaking another shocking record set by Derby County.
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Leicester City could record fewer clean sheets than the 2007/08 Derby County team
From the very beginning of the campaign to now, it’s been an incredibly difficult spectacle for Leicester fans to view.
The appointment of Steve Cooper, who was partly responsible for a woeful transfer window, was sacked and replaced by Van Nistelrooy, with the Dutchman somehow doing worse.
For most of this term, Leicester fans have wanted Jon Rudkin to be sacked, also raising questions at the owners.
Admittedly, most of the atrocious football can be blamed on their scattergun recruitment, or lack of ambition shown in the last two transfer windows.
However, the manager’s must also take some of the responsibility, as they’re ultimately the ones who make the decisions tactically.
| Position | Team | Played MP | Won W | Drawn D | Lost L | For GF | Against GA | Diff GD | Points Pts |
| 17 |  WolvesWolves | 29 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 40 | 58 | -18 | 26 |
| 18 |  IpswichIpswich | 29 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 62 | -34 | 17 |
| 19 |  LeicesterLeicester | 29 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 65 | -40 | 17 |
| 20 |  SouthamptonSouthampton | 29 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 70 | -49 | 9 |
Unfortunately, Leicester have the second-worst defence in the Premier League with 65 goals conceded, only Southampton have shipped more.
As it stands, they’re on track to break Derby’s record of keeping three clean sheets in the 2007/08 campaign, with the Foxes boasting just one so far – the 1-0 win over Bournemouth in October.
Considering the Rams only accumulated 11 points during that season, another Premier League low, it’s grim to read such an atrocious statistic.
Steve Cooper could have kept Leicester up
Leicester parted ways with Cooper in November when the Foxes were just two points above the bottom three following a defeat against Chelsea.
But whilst it was perhaps the correct decision to sack the Welshman, he would have arguably done better than Van Nistelrooy, whose record is terrible since taking over.
| Steve Cooper | 2024/25 Premier League stats | Ruud van Nistelrooy |
| 12 | Matches | 16 |
| 2 | Wins | 2 |
| 4 | Draws | 1 |
| 6 | Losses | 13 |
| 15 | Goals scored | 9 |
| 23 | Goals conceded | 38 |
In four fewer matches this term, Leicester collected more wins, goals scored and fewer goals conceded, evincing how much of a bad job the former Man United striker has done.
Of course, fans were right to want Cooper sacked at the time but in hindsight, replacing him with Van Nistelrooy has proven detrimental.