Worst defeats in football history ranked after Leicester embarrassed by Oxford in 4-0 League One thrashing

The beauteous crippled has served up countless memorable matches implicit the years, but the hidden broadside to each triumph is the symptom of defeat.

One of the astir shocking losses of the play took spot connected Saturday afternoon, erstwhile Leicester City - who famously lifted the Premier League rubric successful 2015-16 - were thrashed 4-0 by Oxford United astatine the King Power Stadium.

More than conscionable the four-goal margin, specified a staggering effect meant that fans up and down the state were yet deed by the world that the Foxes are languishing successful League One, pursuing back-to-back relegations.

The nonaccomplishment besides brings to caput a fig of daze results from years gone by, including England's elimination from Euro 2016 and Brazil's humiliation astatine the 2014 World Cup.

Here, Sports Mole takes a look astatine the apical 5 worst defeats successful shot history, aft Leicester were embarrassed by Oxford

5. Manchester United 8-2 Arsenal - Premier League - August 28, 2011

The rivalry betwixt Manchester United and Arsenal goes backmost decades, and fans of the Red Devils volition ever person their side's 8-2 demolition of the Gunners from August 2011 to brag about.

Man United were reigning Premier League champions and welcomed the Londoners - who had mislaid some Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri successful the weeks anterior - to Old Trafford conscionable 3 games into the caller season.

The hosts raced into an aboriginal lead, courtesy of Danny Welbeck, and erstwhile Arsenal's Robin van Persie had the accidental to level from a penalty, helium saw his spot footwear saved by a 20-year-old David de Gea.

From that constituent on, United refused to instrumentality their ft disconnected the pedal, delivering a monumental thrashing acknowledgment to a Wayne Rooney hat-trick, an Ashley Young brace, and efforts from Nani and Park Ji-sung.

The unbelievable scoreline marked the Gunners' heaviest decision since 1896, and remains the lone 8-2 effect successful Premier League history.

4. England 1-2 Iceland - Euro 2016's Round of 16 - June 27, 2016

Euro 2016 saw Iceland marque their large planetary tourney debut, and they entered the finals arsenic the lowest-ranked broadside around.

However, the comparative minnows pulled disconnected 1 of the biggest upsets successful modern shot past erstwhile they knocked England retired successful the Round of 16, winning 2-1 astatine Nice's Allianz Riviera.

Rooney had fixed the Three Lions the pb with conscionable 4 minutes connected the clock, and it was assumed that his punishment would pb to a elemental triumph for the giants, but Iceland had different ideas.

Ragnar Sigurdsson struck backmost conscionable 2 minutes later, before Kolbeinn Sigthorsson put Lars Lagerback and Heimar Hallgrimsson's broadside successful front, giving the squad thing to clasp onto.

England manager Roy Hodgson instantly resigned successful the aftermath, speechmaking retired a connection helium wrote successful the dressing country during his post-match property conference.

3. Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich - Champions League Quarter-Final - August 14, 2020

The 2019-20 Champions League and Europa League knockouts were played arsenic a single-elimination tourney pursuing delays owed to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Bayern Munich made definite their quarter-final was remembered for much than conscionable the circumstances.

Thomas Muller enactment the Bavarians up a specified 4 minutes into the contention aft being teed up by Robert Lewandowski, but an ain extremity from David Alaba levelled the clash moments later.

Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi had chances to springiness La Blaugrana the lead, yet the erstwhile was denied by Manuel Neuer, and the second struck the post.

Unfortunately for the Catalan giants, further goals from Ivan Perisic, Serge Gnabry and Muller enactment Bayern 4-1 up and firmly successful power of the necktie earlier the interval, and soon aft a neat decorativeness from Suarez gave Barca immoderate anticipation anterior to the hr mark, Joshua Kimmich crushed their tone by adding a 4th for Bayern.

A 5-2 decision would person been disappointing enough, but Barcelona loanee Philippe Coutinho was substituted connected for the Bavarians and assisted a Lewandowski header, earlier netting 2 goals of his ain to marque the scoreline a humiliating 8-2 against his genitor club.

That nonaccomplishment marked the archetypal clip that Barca had conceded 8 times successful 1 lucifer since their 8-0 thrashing by Sevilla successful 1946, and preceded a turbulent spell for the nine arsenic Messi handed successful a transportation petition conscionable 11 days aft the quarter-final.

2. Uruguay 2-1 Brazil - 1950 World Cup - July 16, 1950 (The Maracanazo)

In the 1950 World Cup's circular robin last stage, Brazil arrived for the past crippled (a showdown against Uruguay astatine the Maracana) lone needing a gully to clinch the trophy connected location soil.

The Selecao were considered by galore to already person their hands connected the crown, and erstwhile Friaca enactment them 1-0 up moments into the 2nd half, it seemed that the inevitable was coming to pass.

However, Juan Alberto Schiaffino mustered an equaliser astir 20 minutes later, and when Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia struck location a precocious victor for Uruguay, the assemblage was reportedly stunned into a now-legendary silence.

The iconic stadium welcomed 173,850 ticketed fans that day, meaning the largest authoritative attendance ever recorded astatine a shot lucifer bore witnesser to this embarrassment, though determination person been estimates placing the fig of spectators person to 200,000.

Uruguayan leader Ghiggia famously noted that "Only 3 radical person ever silenced the Maracana... Sinatra, the Pope, and I," highlighting conscionable however stunned Brazil was, and it is testament to the level of daze felt that the squad abandoned their achromatic portion successful the aftermath.

This humiliating decision was truthful impactful that it became known arsenic 'The Maracanazo', meaning 'The Maracana Blow'.

1. Brazil 1-7 Germany - 2014 World Cup Semi-Final - July 8, 2014 (The Mineirazo)

Claiming the apical spot connected our database is Brazil's 7-1 demolition astatine the hands of Germany successful their 2014 World Cup semi-final, a nationalist humiliation truthful uncomfortably akin to The Maracanazo that it spawned a related sanction of its ain - 'The Mineirazo'.

The Selecao were hosting the tournament, and welcomed Die Mannschaft to Estadio Mineirao expecting to progress, adjacent if Neymar was retired with a fractured vertebra, and Thiago Silva was suspended.

Unfortunately for Brazil, their emotion-driven pre-game optimism came crashing down wrong a devastating archetypal 29 minutes that saw Muller unfastened the scoring for Germany, earlier Miroslav Klose doubled their lead, Toni Kroos added a brace, and Sami Khedira made it 5-0.

That being said, the Europeans were acold from finished, arsenic substitute Andre Schurrle came disconnected the seat to people doubly aft the break, the archetypal acceptable up by Philipp Lahm, and the 2nd by Muller.

Brazil were astatine slightest capable to unafraid a consolation goal, courtesy of attacking midfielder Oscar, though it did small to blunt the tremendous stroke of the loss.

The 7-1 decision became the Selecao's biggest ever astatine a World Cup, and the heaviest ever suffered by a big nation, not to notation that it marked the largest borderline of triumph during a semi-final successful the competition's history.

As if to adhd insult to injury, Klose's extremity made him the all-time starring scorer successful World Cup finals with 16 - surpassing the grounds that had antecedently been held by Brazil's Ronaldo - portion Germany moved up of their opponents to go the highest-scoring federation successful World Cups.