Ruud van Nistelrooy just broke a horrific top-flight record at Leicester City – it stood for 65 years

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Leicester City’s visit to Manchester City on Wednesday night was another example of why the Foxes are destined to play Championship football.

The Foxes are 12 points adrift of 17th-place Wolves after losing 2-0 against Man City, recording an xG of just 0.02 and failing to score in another game.

Fans called for Ruud van Nistelrooy to resign after the game, seeing the Dutchman as someone who is out of his depth in the Premier League and incapable of taking them back up next season.

Van Nistelrooy has broken several records for all the wrong reasons at Leicester, including losing seven league games in a row without scoring.

Unfortunately, the 48-year-old is putting his name into the top-flight history books for another unwanted record, and it makes for grim reading.

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Ruud van Nistelrooy breaks unwanted 65-year top-flight record

Since becoming Leicester manager in November, supporters haven’t watched the fast, attacking football that was promised and have instead been forced to witness a car crash of performances.

Van Nistelrooy has looked out of his depth tactically, and even when Leicester changed to a 5-3-2 formation, issues defensively and in attack have continued.

Some will now place the former Man United striker as the worst manager in the club’s history and one statistic reinforces why that might be true.

According to Opta, Van Nistelrooy is the first manager to lead the same team on two separate seven-game losing runs in a top-flight season since Freddie Cox in 1958-59 with Portsmouth.

Leicester tasted seven defeats in a row and sandwiched in between them was a 2-1 win over Tottenham before losing another seven.

It’s been a horrific time for supporters and the fact he’s broken a record that has stood for 65 years just demonstrates how awful he’s been.

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Leicester could match abysmal Sheffield United record

Van Nistelrooy has already done sufficient damage to his reputation as a manager and it could get a whole lot worse for the Dutchman.

Last season, Sheffield United were one of the worst sides to suffer relegation from the Premier League and recorded just one clean sheet in 38 matches.

Leicester’s 1-0 win over Bournemouth in October remains their only shutout of the campaign, going 24 matches without keeping a clean sheet.

So, failing to record one in their last eight games of the season will see them match the Blades, with even Derby County’s 2007/08 team keeping three clean sheets.

It just puts into perspective how poorly Van Nistelrooy has done since taking charge, and in hindsight, they were perhaps better off keeping Steve Cooper.