But that will come as no consolation to Foxes fans for the games were against Crewe and Millwall, the sides occupying the bottom two places in the Championship.
Patrick McCarthy put through his own goal to give the visitors the half-time lead before City leve'led through a Joey Gudjonsson penalty in a second half which saw both sides reduced to ten men.
Although Ryan Smith had two strikes on goal early on, Leister failed to unravel Millwall's well-drilled 3-5-2 system.
And they were shaken on 28 minutes when the Londoners took a surprise lead. Alan Dunne was allowed time and space to cross from the right. Rab Douglas appeared to have the danger covered, but McCarthy got there before his keeper to slide the ball into his own net in at the near post.
It was a nightmare return for McCarthy who had been recalled to his side after completing a two-match ban for his red card at Leeds.
But while McCarthy may have struggled to make the right impression in the Leicester defence, City's attacking trio of Smith, Elvis Hammond and Iain Hume failed to produce the invention and verve to get beyond the Lions rearguard.
The half-time whistle was greeted with a chorus of boos from the disgruntled home fans.
The introduction at half-time of substitute Gareth Williams in place of Nils-Eric Johansson failed to lift Leicester whose woes increased just before the hour mark when Danny Tiatto was sent off for being shown two yellow cards in just seven second-half minutes.
But the Foxes was thrown a lifeline on 62 minutes when they were awarded a penalty after Zak Whitbread fouled Hammond inside the area to allow Gudjonsson to step up and equalise from the spot.
Then on 68 minutes Millwall were themselves reduced to ten men when Paul Robinson was shown a straight red for a foul which denied Hume a clear run on goal.
Galvanised by the drama of it all City found themselves transformed with Williams striking a post from distance and Millwall keeper Colin Doyle at full stretch to keep out efforts from Hammond and Smith.
But Millwall served notice that they were still a threat when Douglas was forced into a finger-tip save to prevent Jody Morris from stealing a win for Millwall.