Leicester City host Newcastle on Monday night looking to salvage some pride from a difficult season.
After Ipswich beat Bournemouth and Leicester lost to Manchester City on Wednesday, the Foxes can’t even claim they are the best out of the three promoted sides.
| Position | Team | Played MP | Won W | Drawn D | Lost L | For GF | Against GA | Diff GD | Points Pts |
| 18 |  IpswichIpswich | 31 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 30 | 63 | -33 | 21 |
| 19 |  LeicesterLeicester | 30 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 25 | 67 | -42 | 17 |
| 20 |  SouthamptonSouthampton | 30 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 22 | 71 | -49 | 10 |
It emphasises just how poor Leicester have been this season.
And with Newcastle heading to the King Power Stadium full of confidence, it could be about to get a whole lot worse for the Ruud van Nistelrooy’s side.
Leicester could lose eight home games in a row without scoring
No side in Football League history has ever lost eight home games in a row without finding the back of the net.
As per The Athletic’s The Totally Football Show podcast, Manchester City went eight home games without scoring under Stuart Pearce in the 2000s.
Yet some of those games ended in 0-0 draws, meaning they avoided defeat and thus did not set a record.
Similarly, BBC Sport has reported that Daniel Farke is the only Premier League manager to lose eight consecutive home games, doing so with Norwich City between June 2020 and September 2021.
Yet Farke’s Norwich side managed to find the back of the net in a couple of those losses, meaning should Leicester lose to Newcastle without scoring, van Nistelrooy will have a brand-new Football League record all to himself.
The Dutchman also hasn’t been given much hope by pundits before the game, with both Chris Sutton and Paul Merson predicting a Newcastle win to nil.
Other Premier League and top-flight records broken by Ruud van Nistelrooy this season
With the season being as poor as it has been, a new record on Monday would not be van Nistelrooy’s first of the campaign.
After allowing Jack Grealish to score two minutes into Wednesday’s game at the Etihad, Leicester set a new Premier League record for the number of games (25) they have conceded first this season.
Wednesday’s defeat to Manchester City was also Leicester’s seventh in a row in the Premier League, meaning van Nistelrooy matched a decades-old record, becoming the first manager since Freddie Cox with Portsmouth in the 1958-59 season to oversee two consecutive seven-game defeats in the same campaign.
Should the Foxes suffer defeat against Newcastle, regardless of whether they score, Leicester will also break a 141-year-old club record, losing 11 home games in a single campaign for the first time in their history.
With Liverpool still to visit, it is hard to see how that record is avoided even if Newcastle don’t beat Leicester.