Barely 24 hours after Southampton was relegated to the middle of the debate on the worst teams to participate in the Premier League came from the request for Leicester.
They could have seven points better than the saints, but they have been downright dismal since the start of the year and return to the championship.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy, appointed at the end of November, transformed a bad team into a terrible and seems more and more likely to go to the end of the season while the unwanted records accumulate around him.
Leicester has lost 22 of the 31 Premier League games this season, 15 out of 16 since mid-December. They lost 11 at home in the League for the first time in 141 years of history.
They conceded 70 but, worse than everything, they became the first in the era of the Premier League to have assumed eight successive home games without scoring a goal.
Bobby de Cordova Reid was the last to score, in a 2-2 draw with Brighton.
Newcastle strengthened its hopes for qualifying in the Champions League by winning in Leicester
Jacob Murphy scored the 19th and 20th goals in his career in Newcastle in a one -one game
Ruud Van Nistelrooy transformed a poor side of Leicester in horrible since he took over from Steve Cooper
No wonder the fans who hooked them have had enough.
They were just not a match for Newcastle, still on their wave of jubilation of the Carabao Cup victory last month.
Eddie Howe’s team was three at halftime, two by Jacob Murphy and one by Harvey Barnes, and crossed the second half while their fans sang on another European adventure, which could well be in the Champions League.
They are up to fifth and in a threatening form.
Newcastle goalkeeper Nick Pope made the first stop at night, tested his post at his post near Jamie Vardy after 10 seconds, but visitors were ahead in two minutes, passing through the painfully thin blue defense line.
Wilfried Ndidi missed a tackle in the midfield and Bruno Guimaraes released Barnes, playing for the first time at King Power and warmly applauded when the teams were announced.
Tino Livramento steamed on the overlap and delivered a fabulous cross with its left foot, converted to the rear post by Murphy.
The home crowd groans knowingly, Van Nistelrooy cursed, then things got worse while Newcastle marked again, via a daring attempt by Fabian Schar from the interior of his own.
Murphy, who also put a splint in the inverted luminaire, marked twice in the first 11th minutes
Newcastle was 3-0 before half-time thanks to a goal from the former Foxes star Harvey Barnes
Leicester fans began to leave the King Power Stadium en masse after Barnes scored the goal n ° 3
The foxes are nailed to join Southampton to be relegated to the championship
(Name of the element = module ID = 124549765 Style = Undefined /)
Schar cut the Vardy ball, saw Mads Hermansen of his line and opted for the goal.
Everyone froze while the ball was sailing on the goal of the goalkeeper and was beating against the bar. Everyone except Murphy, who spleen to grab the rebound and claim their second of the night, despite a first clumsy touch.
Suddenly, the victory of seven goals needed to jump into the fourth did not seem so fanciful and apart from the jubilant geordes wrapped in a corner, the atmosphere inside the stadium was embittered. Leicester fans are tired of seeing their team submerged so easily, offering no resistance.
They ruined Patson Daka for giving his own goal after having left the defense to find no teammate in support.
In short, they gathered, and Pope made another Bilal El Khannouss stop, but they conceded a third before half time when Barnes typed in an open net after Hermansen had saved low on his left of Jelinton.
Before the interval, came a moment to summarize it all when a sparkling journey by Daka hit the inside of a post, crossed the line, struck the other post and bounced to the Pope, who smiled at his good fortune while he gathered the ball while sitting on the lawn.
A flag clashed against Vardy – it might not have counted but he looked tight.
Safety points, Newcastle was walked in the second half in containment mode.
There was no objective of consolation for Leicester, Wout Faes got closer to a corner of a corner, although there was beginnings for the exciting Jeremy Monga, 15, as if to promise the better days in advance.