For approximately 40 minutes on Thursday evening, it was not all doom and gloom for the crestfallen Man City faithful, who shared Chelsea and Arsenal’s joy when Jordan Ayew sent Leicester into a shock lead against
Liverpool at a fog-filled Anfield.Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men were oh so close to holding out until the half-time whistle, but a Cody Gakpo stunner breathed new life into the league
leaders, who subsequently turned the tide in the second half through a Curtis Jones strike and Mohamed Salah’s 100th Premier League home goal.The Foxes should feel no shame in losing
to the best team in the land this season, but a third straight defeat coupled with Wolverhampton Wanderers getting the better of Manchester United was enough to plunge
Sunday’s hosts into the relegation zone, one point worse off than Vitor Pereira’s team.Now officially boasting the joint-leakiest defence in the division alongside Wolves, Leicester have
allowed 40 strikes in their 18 top-flight contests this season – including 12 in their last four – and it is now 12 matches without a clean sheet for the floundering Foxes.Leicester did manage to
shut Man City out during their most recent beating of the Premier League champions in the 2021 Community Shield, but Guardiola’s men have since won four on the spin over the Foxes and have not conceded a goal at the King Power since Boxing Day 2018 – a festive omen for optimism
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Festive cheer was already in short supply in the blue half of Manchester before the visit of Sean Dyche’s team, who had stunted Arsenal and Chelsea’s high-flying attackers and had every
right to feel optimistic of nullifying Erling Haaland and co at the crumbling Etihad.A Bernardo Silva strike in the opening 15 minutes put paid to the idea of another high-profile 0-0
stalemate involving Everton, but one Iliman Ndiaye equaliser and missed Haaland penalty later, Man City failed to win a Premier League game for the eighth time in nine matches.All
