Leicester City are in crisis and Gary Rowett is the man tasked with being their saviour.

Given the financial implications of a fall into League One, City must stay up. It’s now Rowett’s task to achieve that.

He starts with the club on a run of one point from six matches and two points shy of safety inside the bottom three. He has 14 games to get City out of trouble.

Here are the biggest tasks on his plate.

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Sort out the defence

This is the biggest and clearest job on Rowett’s to-do list. City have conceded at least once in all of their past 26 Championship games. An inability to keep clean sheets severely hampers City’s capacity to collect points.

Rowett knows how to organise a defence. A clean sheet record of one-in-three at Championship level is excellent. But can he do it with this group of players?