Leicester become first side in Football League history to lose eight successive home league games without scoring
Newcastle move level on points with fourth-placed Chelsea
Jacob Murphy scores twice in opening 11 minutes, Harvey Barnes adds third against former club
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Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Indeed, a very loud round of boos from the home supporters who are still inside the King Power Stadium as the half-time whistle sounds.
Newcastle in control at the break.
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Alan Smith
Former Leicester City forward on Sky Sports
You'll certainly hear some boos from Leicester fans at half time. Van Nistelrooy will have to think of something at half time to make things better.
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Into two minutes of added time at the end of the half.
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Surely we'll see some changes from Eddie Howe at half-time with this lead and plenty more crucial matches on the horizon.
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Hojlund, Grealish and now Barnes. If you're struggling to score, Leicester's defence will give you your confidence back.
Mark
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
It's whipped into the back post by Luke Thomas but Nick Pope punches away.
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Leicester win a corner, can they make something of it?
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Alan Smith
Former Leicester City forward on Sky Sports
Eddie Howe won't want any injuries, but goal difference could make a difference in Champions League qualification. You don't want to be easing off the accelerator.
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Well that just about sums things up for Leicester at the moment.
Patson Daka gets a shot away from just inside the penalty area and it pings off one post then back across goal and off the other post.
So unlucky.
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Leicester lose the ball 30-yards out as James Justin's sloppy pass finds Alexander Isak but the striker's effort flashes wide.
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
James Justin digs out a cross from the right but it's a comfortable catch for Nick Pope.
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This sequence of performances and results can't be doing Ruud Van Nistelrooy's prospects of a career in management much good.
Anon
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Leicester City have conceded 37 first-half goals in 31 games, no team has conceded more in the Premier League this season.
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Alan Smith
Former Leicester City forward on Sky Sports
Barnes picks the ball up deep, and once he passes it off to Isak he makes sure he's in a position to pick up any crumbs.
It's like Newcastle had a rest for 10 minutes, and as soon as they come again they score.
Leicester City 0-3 Newcastle
Goodness me. Leicester fans are either heading in early for their half-time pie or they've seen enough and are heading home for an early night.
Harvey Barnes (34 mins)
Leicester have the ball on the edge of the Newcastle penalty area but one stray pass and suddenly the visitors are away.
Alexander Isak gets on a run down the right-hand side but his shot is parried away. It drops to Joelinton who also sees his effort parried before Harvey Barnes gets a simple tap-in against his former club.
Tough going now this for Leicester.
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Alan Smith
Former Leicester City forward on Sky Sports
When I saw the Leicester team announced, I thought it was unusual to see an unchanged team for the fourth time on the trot when you are losing every week. I expected the manager to try and change things up a little bit.
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Nick Pope is called into action when Bilal El Khannouss drives forward down the left-hand side and just keeps going. He gets the shot off and it's parried behind.
Jamie Vardy was in the box but El Khannouss opted to take the shot on himself.
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There’s a bit of making up to do tonight after that drab Manchester derby. More goals please!
Callum
Leicester City 0-2 Newcastle
It's not like Leicester haven't had any of the ball. There have been attempts to get forward. It's just that they look leaky at the back and lacking confidence in attack.
They win a corner which is taken short then deflected behind for another corner.
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Jacob Murphy also scored twice against Leicester in December
Free-scoring Newcastle heaped more misery on relegation-bound Leicester as the Magpies' Champions League pursuit gathered further momentum.
The three points for Eddie Howe's side lifted them above Manchester City into fifth place in the Premier League and level on points with fourth-placed Chelsea, despite still having a game in hand.
Leicester, meanwhile, became the first side in the top four tiers of English football to lose eight home league games in a row without finding the net, as they sit 15 points from safety with seven games remaining.
The scoring started inside the opening two minutes, with Jacob Murphy scoring the first of two tap-ins after some great work down the left wing by Tino Livramento.
Murphy's second came less than 10 minutes later when Fabian Schar almost scored the goal of the season, but his audacious effort from inside his own half struck the crossbar - with the Newcastle winger reacting fastest to finish the rebound.
Twenty-four minutes then passed before Howe's men extended their lead further as Joelinton easily cut inside Wout Faes and forced a diving save out of Mads Hermansen, but former Foxes winger Harvey Barnes reacted first to make it 3-0 as the boos rang out around King Power Stadium.
The Foxes, who passed the 12-hour mark without scoring a goal, came within inches of finding the back of the net but Patson Daka's strike hit the inside of both posts before rolling into the hands of Nick Pope.
With the points in the bag for the Magpies following a rampant first period, Howe had the luxury of taking off key players Joelinton, Bruno Guimaraes, Murphy and Alexander Isak - with the visit of Ruben Amorim's Manchester United side on Sunday very much on the mind.
As the match slowed in tempo, Ruud van Nistelrooy turned to his bench and brought on 15-year-old forward Jeremy Monga - making him the second youngest player, behind Arsenal's Ethan Nwaneri, to play in the Premier League.
Leicester will look to avoid a 10th loss on the spin on Saturday when they take on Brighton at Amex Stadium.
Leicester not good enough - Van Nistelrooy on 'difficult night'
The Foxes' dismal run of eight home league games in a row without scoring a goal beats Watford's previous record of seven, set between December 1971 and March 1972.
On top of that, Leicester fell to an 11th home league defeat - the most in a single league campaign in their 141-year history.
It is extremely bleak for Van Nistelrooy's side and that was echoed with the number of empty seats around King Power Stadium.
In truth, the game was over for the Foxes after 10 minutes once Murphy scored his second of the evening.
The life had been well and truly sucked out of Leicester, with boos coming from the home support after some loose passes.
Leicester looked like they would show some fight after Jamie Vardy forced Nick Pope into a save after just 20 seconds, but it was all downhill from there. The opening goal was netted less than two minutes later.
Leicester's relegation to the Championship is not mathematically confirmed just yet, but it may as well be.
Howe 'really pleased' with 'massive' Newcastle win
Fifth spot in the Premier League is looking as though it will be enough for a Champions League place next season, but Newcastle want to go one better and nail down a top-four spot - which they are very much on course to do.
Their third league win on the spin moved them ahead of Manchester City into fifth and they now sit level on points with Chelsea - having played a game fewer.
With two very winnable home games coming up next, against Manchester United and Crystal Palace, it is no wonder confidence is rife among Magpies fans.
Howe's side certainly did not turn up thinking the three points were in the bag as they started the game on the front foot.
The foot was not taken off the gas as Schar's tremendous effort from inside his own half rebounded off the crossbar and allowed Murphy to finish his second of the night.
It could have been distracting for Newcastle to come up against a side where there was such obvious unrest in the stadium, but they remained professional and more than got the job done.
After securing that famous Carabao Cup win, the Magpies now firmly have their sights set on returning to Europe's elite competition next season.
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 72 | 30 | 42 | 73 |
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| 31 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 56 | 26 | 30 | 62 |
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| 31 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 51 | 37 | 14 | 57 |
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| 31 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 54 | 37 | 17 | 53 |
| |
| 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 52 | 39 | 13 | 53 |
| |
| 31 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 57 | 40 | 17 | 52 |
| |
| 31 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 46 | 46 | 0 | 51 |
| |
| 31 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 47 | 42 | 5 | 48 |
| |
| 31 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 49 | 47 | 2 | 47 |
| |
| 31 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 51 | 40 | 11 | 45 |
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| 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 39 | 35 | 4 | 43 |
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| 31 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 51 | 47 | 4 | 42 |
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| 31 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 37 | 41 | -4 | 38 |
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| 31 | 11 | 4 | 16 | 58 | 45 | 13 | 37 |
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| 31 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 33 | 38 | -5 | 35 |
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| 31 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 35 | 52 | -17 | 35 |
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| 31 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 43 | 59 | -16 | 32 |
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| 31 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 31 | 65 | -34 | 20 |
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| 31 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 25 | 70 | -45 | 17 |
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| 31 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 23 | 74 | -51 | 10 |
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Manager: Ruud van Nistelrooij
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
Manager: Eddie Howe
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
Manager: Ruud van Nistelrooij
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
Manager: Eddie Howe
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
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After winning nine of their 12 Premier League meetings with Newcastle between May 2015 and December 2021 (L3), Leicester are now winless in four against the Magpies (D1 L3).
Newcastle have kept a clean sheet in each of their last three Premier League meetings with Leicester, more than they had in their previous 16 against the Foxes (2).
Leicester City have lost each of their last seven home Premier League matches, failing to score in every single game. In English top-flight history, the only side to go eight home games in a row without a goal were Manchester City between January and May 2007, who drew two and lost six of those games.
Newcastle United have won seven away Premier League matches this season and could win 8+ on the road for a second time under Eddie Howe (also eight in 2022-23), having only done so three times before he joined the club (9 in 1993-94 under Kevin Keegan, 9 in 2001-02 under Bobby Robson, 8 in 2011-12 under Alan Pardew).
Should Leicester lose this game without scoring, they would become the first side in Football League history to lose eight home league games in a row without a goal – Watford also lost seven in a row between December 1971 and March 1972.
Newcastle United have won 14 of their last 18 Premier League against newly promoted clubs (D3 L1), winning the last six in a row. They last won seven of these games consecutively between October 2013 and November 2014.
Leicester have lost 10 home Premier League games this season – in their league history, they have never lost 11 at home in a single campaign (also 10 defeats in 1913-14, 1977-78, 1994-95 and 2022-23).
Since Leicester’s Bobby De Cordova-Reid scored an equaliser in a 2-2 draw with Brighton in December, each of the last 18 Premier League goals at the King Power Stadium have been scored by the away side. Only West Brom (22 in a row in December/January in 2020-21) have had a longer run of goals scored by the away side in home games, with the 22nd and last goal in that run scored by Cordova-Reid for Fulham.
Leicester manager Ruud van Nistelrooy was unbeaten in his first four home Premier League games this season with Man Utd (W1 D1) and the Foxes (W1 D1) but he’s lost his last seven. Only one manager in Premier League history has lost eight in a row – Daniel Farke between June 2020 and September 2021 with Norwich.
Newcastle’s Alexander Isak has scored eight goals in his last six Premier League appearances against sides starting the day in the relegation zone, including five in his last two (hat-trick vs Ipswich in December, brace vs Southampton in January).
