Leicester have broken the Premier League record for conceding the first goal on 25 occasions out of their opening 30 matches.
The Foxes fell behind to champions Manchester City after just four minutes on Wednesday night to keep up their shocking form.
AFPJack Grealish broke the deadlock early on against Leicester at the Etihad[/caption]
And it was Jack Grealish that broke the deadlock – his first Premier League goal since the Citizens’ 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace in December 2023.
The England international was picked out by Savinho from 12 yards out, with Grealish firing into the bottom left corner.
It’s now a record-extending 36 goals shipped in from a Premier League side on the road this campaign.
The 2015/16 top-flight champions remain the only side in the division to fail to keep a clean sheet away from home.
Not since their seventh match of the season, where they beat Bournemouth 1-0 at the King Power Stadium, have Leicester now failed to keep out an opponent.
And unfortunately for Leicester, they have set an unwanted Premier League record that had previously stood for 32 years.
They have surpassed Ipswich’s tally of 24 from the 1994/95 campaign in the amount of times conceding the first goal in a league match.
It’s the first time a team has had their defences breached first 25 times from their opening 30 matches.
Ipswich went on to finish that season rooted to the bottom of the table.
And Leicester look seemingly set to fail to beat the drop too, with the club destined for an immediate return to the Championship having won just four Premier League matches all season.
Ruud van Nistelrooy‘s side have claimed just one victory in 2025 – away at Tottenham Hotspur on January.
Since that clash in north London, the Midlands outfit have suffered six successive defeats to leave them languishing in 19th spot.
Incredibly, they have failed to find the back of the net in any of those losses, and have scored on just three occasions this calendar year.
Should Leicester fail to get on the score sheet against Pep Guardiola‘s men, they’ll enter the history books once again for all the wrong reasons.
It will be just the fourth time a top-flight side has lost seven matches in a row without scoring after Sunderland [eight in 1976/77], Ipswich [seven in 1994/95] and Crystal Palace [eight in 2017/18].
Defeat would also be Leicester’s seventh consecutive league defeat to City.
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