Sevilla post match 2-0

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

2 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Fuchs was having a awful season, but now looks himself again same with vardy and that is making a huge difference 

Fuchs looked better than last year's Fuchs tonight. Unbelievable performance, matched only by Albrighton IMO

[StriderHiryu]

2 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Not even going to check but I'm sure it's been said a million times....

 

CHRISTIAN FUCHS take a ****ing bow!!!!

 

and the rest of them, but him especially! Wow.

 

What a night... voice in bits.

It's not actually Christian Fuchs. Shakespeare and the backoom staff managed to make Paolo Maldini younger and have camouflaged him as Fuchs.

 

Likewise at the end, that wasn't Marc Albrighton, it was Zinedine Zidane.

[bfox]

 Fuchs was world class out there tonight! good job from all the lads!

[An Away Move]

What a night! I didn't even have a ticket until midnight last night. Usually sit in J2. Tonight was the night to get one in SK1. Don't think I'll ever forget it. Probably the most tense football match I've ever witnessed.

[Foxesmints]

13 minutes ago, Thracian said:

In over 60 years watching Leicester this was perhaps the most emotional night of all apart from lifting the Premiership title. What a show with al the banners and flags before the game - the perfect way to develop an atmosphere and what a performance with the word TEAMWORK shining out in capital letters.

 

This was no fluke either. This was a ruthless, entirely calculated plan that worked almost to perfection. Simple but clinically effective.

Sevilla had once seemingly simple chance to take the game to extra time - the penalty so coolly saved by Schmeichel.

 

Otherwise we won soundly and might/should have put at least another two, possible three chances away and so finished with an even more remarkable scoreline.

 

And maybe our fans need to apologise for writing premature footballing obituaries for our back four because with a game plan that once again played to their strengths, all four were immense in a competent rather than dramatic sense.

 

And what unlikely goalscoring heroes. Morgan and Albrighton. The latter earned man-of-the-match for me because his goal eventually sealed our passage through to the quarter finals, it was clinically taken and it served to crown a performance which was little short of amazing for its energy and selflessness.

 

But everyone made their contribution to what was far more a team effort than an individual one.

 

Once again, Shakespeare stuck with his chosen and trusted men and got his just reward for his 4/4.5/1.5 system which has Shinji sharing the full-frontal closing down with Vardy; Albrighton and Mahrez providing energy and invention respectively and the central midfielders Ndidi and Drinkwater shoring up the centre to force the opposition out wide so that crosses formed the greatest opposition threat - and they proved meat and drink to Morgan and Huth.

 

Apart from one spectacular shot which cannoned off Kasper's crossbar, free-scoring Sevilla fired inconsequential blanks when they got chance to pull the trigger at all while Vardy and Slimani should definitely have added to the goals scored by Morgan and Albrighton and that fails to mention another two or three excellent chances.

 

It all means another fantastic day out in the footballing wonderworld - Barcelona, Monaco, Bayern Munich or whoever and another famous day in Leicester's increasingly fabulous history.

 

It also means our new "non-name" manager has won three vitally important games by two clear goals each and restored our self-respect and the respect of the footballing community almost overnight.

 

And in what dramatic style. First came the sending off of Nasri  which seemed to herald an increasingly comfortable and victorious finale for Leicester but then the penalty awarded to Sevilla could so easily have been the start of a ruined fairytale. Thankfully Kasper made his second penalty save over the two legs and broke the visitors hearts.

 

After all the "nils" of January and the huge disappointment of our misdirected football this season, we really did have our Leicester back - and I'll never forget the stunned looks on the Sevilla fans faces at the final whistle. Simply a day, a result and an achievement to remember and savour as one of our best ever..     

Amen.

[FoxonMaui]

Unbelievable performance, full of heart, guts,passion, skill and smarts!! I might be 7,500 miles away but when Albrightons goal went in my wife and I went crazy. We had the amazing experience of being at the KP for the 4-0 Swasea game last season, but this capped even that. Kasper has stepped out of his fathers shadow for good now!!!! Riyad had the best defensive performance of his life today, by a country mile!! Sevilla got thoroughly outfoxed?

[TAFKA Castroneves]

It played out like the perfect match for this team, we needed our bit of luck - that shot off the bar nearly had me crapping everywhere

 

I really thought that Claudio had got it so wrong so quickly that we'd lost this core group of men - but they are back roaring, lads you were all unbelievable.

 

Schmeichel?!? I mean, we're in BIG trouble come the summer surely? So, so, so many "BIG" names have lost their mojo in games like this and end up faltering into elimination, ALL of our boys poked their chests out and didn't let the occasion get to them

 

This is simply incredible - I shouldn't say it but i'd fancy us to have a decent shot against Man City over two legs!

[Thracian]

So proud to be a part of tonight atmosphere. Pensioners were leaping higher into the air than they've done for 30 years, crusty folk who've seen it all were dancing impromptu jigs of delight with total strangers and every eye seemed to be glistening with the welling up of tears of sheer joy or was it disbelief? This really was what being a proper football fan is all about - a moment in our history to be talked about and celebrated for years to come. I drove home in a daze of sheer ecstacy.      

[Koke]

A few things from tonight.

 

1. Nasri is a ****

 

2. Schmeichel is a true legend

 

3. Sevilla fecked up in the first leg. They should have been out of sight. 

[Ozwin]

2 minutes ago, Thracian said:

So proud to be a part of tonight atmosphere. Pensioners were leaping higher into the air than they've done for 30 years, crusty folk who've seen it all were dancing impromptu jigs of delight with total strangers and every eye seemed to be glistening with the welling up of tears of sheer joy or was it disbelief? This really was what being a proper football fan is all about - a moment in our history to be talked about and celebrated for years to come. I drove home in a daze of sheer ecstacy.      

 

You know it was a good night when Thracian posts only a couple of sentences!

[Babylon]

3 minutes ago, Gerbold said:

Sorry pal, but I fit your 'joke' category.  Why you feel you need to take a swipe at the genuine questions about why it's taken the sacking of Claudio for them to suddenly come alive is your business, but you explain why they've achieved this miraculous turn-around and then criticise those who had reservations about their commitment. So many on here expressed the opinion that Claudio sat at the right-hand of God after we'd won the Title - then, in nine months, were calling for his head. So a little circumspection, please, before you start dissing those who had and have very relevant observations about why players who have been missing for three parts of the season and turn up, on cue, all together, when the regime changes.

 

Perhaps question why he couldn't get it out of them.

[Babylon]

Brilliant from start to finish... top it off my Morgan first goal scorer at 42-1 rolled in big time!!! 

[Arkie Bennett]

It's been an incredible day. One of my best friends passed away late last night and I heard the news this morning. He'd have wanted me to enjoy tonight, which I did of course, and I shall be willing his team, Man City, to success tomorrow. Rest in peace.

[VLC86]

Hats off to anyone able to articulate a decent post from on here tonight, I am a broken man.

[kushiro]

Some great lines in this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/mar/14/jamie-vardy-doggedness-drives-leicester-past-sevilla

[Guest ttfn]

Well that was absolutely exhausting.

 

I feel like I've been 12 rounds after that, god knows how the players feel.

 

The whole team was magnificent today, from Huth and Morgan through to the boundless energy of the front two it felt like last season all over again.

 

I thought Fuchs was absolutely unbelievable today, as imperious a left back performance as I've ever seen.

 

Don't really have it in my to offer up much more coherent than that.

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

4 minutes ago, Koke said:

A few things from tonight.

 

1. Nasri is a ****

 

2. Schmeichel is a true legend

 

3. Sevilla fecked up in the first leg. They should have been out of sight. 

To be fair, having seen the replay Vardy obviously made the most of minimal contact.... but fvck it he's still a ****

[FireFox]

54 minutes ago, FireFox said:

So... Pizza? Is it on the menu?

Had Pizza.

[ThurmastonFox]

Daft as it may sound tonight topped the feeling of joy at Wembley when we won the League Cup and when I saw us do the same from the top tier in the Leppings Land end against Middlesbrough. We will never see anything greater than last season and our exploits in the Champions League this. 

[Ian S]

9 minutes ago, Gerbold said:

Sorry pal, but I fit your 'joke' category.  Why you feel you need to take a swipe at the genuine questions about why it's taken the sacking of Claudio for them to suddenly come alive is your business, but you explain why they've achieved this miraculous turn-around and then criticise those who had reservations about their commitment. So many on here expressed the opinion that Claudio sat at the right-hand of God after we'd won the Title - then, in nine months, were calling for his head. So a little circumspection, please, before you start dissing those who had and have very relevant observations about why players who have been missing for three parts of the season and turn up, on cue, all together, when the regime changes.

 

Cheer up.

[one F in Fox]

So so proud of everyone involved tonight.

The games against Seville home and away have given me the most memorable

footballing experiences of my life, and now we have two more legs to come!

 

Just think about this, Seville haven't been beaten in europe over two legs for over five years!

 

[ozleicester]

went back to bed at 5.45am... couldnt sleep, just laid there and now up for work 7.30  Who cares.

[Dan]

I just can't get over what we've done here. Over the past few years I've developed a soft spot for Sevilla, I've been really impressed with the way they go about things, I've thought... I'd love us to do things like that.

 

Yet it's us, of all teams in Europe, who have ended their ridiculous run.

 

We have knocked a team out of Europe who have been in it nearly 4 years.

 

Honestly. I nearly shed a tear at full time.

[hejammy]

Well to tonight was one of the most amazing night of football I've experienced. The atmosphere was phenomenal, the players were just magnificent and the fact that we are through to the quarter finals of the Champions League makes me think I'm delirious. Above all, not sure about anyone else, but that game has made me feel like I've been in the ring with Tyson in his prime! I feel exhausted!  

[Jattdogg]

1 hour ago, Koke said:

 

 

 

shut it knob end.