Samir Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 6 hours ago, StriderHiryu said: Believe it or not we had 51% possesion in the first half, those were the official stats shown in the ground on the big screens. Which means that the second half was likely 80%+ for Sevilla! But it doesn't matter. How many clear cut chances did they really make? Even their penalty was highly questionable. Our two banks of four are one of the best in Europe (recently) alongside Atletico Madrid. You can see how hard it is for teams to break us down. And honestly both Vardy and Slimani should have scored down the other end. Anyway no need to complain, a truly magical night!!! I believe it was 59% in the first half, well that's what it said on the screen at half time in the stadium and Tbf we rarely had the ball in the second half.
MC Prussian Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 6 hours ago, daddylonglegs said: Theres a tweet tonight with the photo of the flag saying 'Thank you Leicester City for nights like this'. The first reply from a bitter Arsenal fan 'Thank you Ranieri more like!!' Not usually arsed about stuff like this but tonight I want to tell this bloke to fck off. Genuinely **** off. From someone who is a serious admirer of Ranieri - and someone hugely grateful for his commitment to our club - I still want to say **** off. This is the players and the clubs achievement this evening. The fans. The staff. The owners. Kasper Schmeichel made the penalty saves - not Ranieri. Fuchs put in tackle after tackle this evening - not Ranieri. Morgan & Huth won every header out there this evening and throughout the group stages - not Ranieri. Ndidi completely bossed the game out there - not Ranieri. Albrighton slammed the ball into the bottom corner tonight - not Ranieri. Okazaki, for all his on the ball faults - ran his socks off like he does every game. - not Ranieri Vardy worked his absolute arse off this evening and got the crucial away goal - not Ranieri. I understand the sympathy toward Ranieri - of course I do. He is one of the best things to happen to this football club. But comments like that take away from the achievement of our players this evening and the fans. We have Ranieri to thank for being at the top table - but we have the players and the staff to thank for keeping us there. I sympathize with this. Ranieri is gone and I'll be forever grateful for what he achieved whilst at Leicester City. HOWEVER... I do sincerely hope more fans wake up and hold players equally accountable for when we don't do well. You can push the players to a certain point as a manager or head coach, but what they do on the pitch is hardly in your hands any longer.
ARM1968 Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Great to see Kante there. Band of brothers magic back in full effect. He couldn't have looked happier for the lads. Nice touch.
Parafox Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 17 hours ago, Vacamion said: Defibrilate me. That was a brave, Leicesteresque performance. Kasper MOTM. There was an actual cardiac arrest in the ground last night. 55yr old. We got him back.
justfoxes Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 This is the type of sour grapes sh it served out by Tw@s who can't hack being a manager anymore so the try and be a pundit on Tv !! Fuch off Souness trying to pi55 on our parade you knob !! http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/graham-souness-takes-aim-leicester-10029870
StanSP Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 one thing I loved last night and I've harked on about it before is our positive effect from the crowd filtering down to the players when something happens on the match. 52/53 mins - Sevilla apply a bit of pressure and Sergio Escudero absolutely smashes the bar from about 35 yards out. Great shot and I actually thought it might have bounced in from where I was. The crowd sense that Sevilla are getting back in to it a bit, sense that we need to give a bit more to the lads and get them going again. 54 mins - Marc Albrighton scores. I have no doubt that we had some kind of galvanising, catalytic effect on the boys and it simply emphasised the electric atmosphere that was there all night. Proud of being part of that crowd last night. Simply sensational night.
CUJimmy Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Souness was an effective player in a successful Liverpool team that was very well coached, his record as a manager though suggests that his ability to analyse tactics and plan accordingly is limited to say the least. Rio Ferdinand is about the first pundit to mention the fundamental difference to our defensive set-up in the last three weeks which is for the full-backs to tuck in more, leaving no space in the channels. This forces sides to go wide and stick high balls into the box which H&M dealt with brilliantly last night. On a related matter who is 'Andy' that hosts the phone-in on Talksport? I have never heard such a rude, opinionated, arrogant so called journalist in my life, even his partner seemed embarrassed by his rants. It was great to hear him owned by the Liverpool fan but I gave up on it after that. Didn't spoil an absolutely magical night though.
lgfualol Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 I don't think I will have a productive day today. So many things to read and watch. I can't get enough. Btw don't read the comments on BBC - so many bitter twats
38trout Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 10 hours ago, UPinCarolina said: I am convinced you are another poster on a loosie account...@gerbold? Well if that comment made any sense I'd reply but I haven't got the time or energy to work it out!!
mancunianfox Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 20 minutes ago, CUJimmy said: On a related matter who is 'Andy' that hosts the phone-in on Talksport? I have never heard such a rude, opinionated, arrogant so called journalist in my life, even his partner seemed embarrassed by his rants. Andy Goldstein who is kind of the radio equivalent of click bait. I remember driving home from Newcastle (H) last year where we won 1-0 and the pundits started to realise that we were getting too close to the title to let it slip and he was going on with some vitriol about how we would be an embarrassment in Europe and it would be disgraceful that Leicester would be representing England as champions. He argued that because Spurs play 'better football' that they would be more befitting of the role of English Champions. Of course Spurs went on to finish third in the league and get knocked out of two European competitions despite getting a dirt poor group in the CL while we are in the quarter finals.
mohammedsaqib Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Very unproductive day at work reading all the fallout. Nobody has ever talked about thighs as much as they have about Wes' in the last 12 hours
Durnerz Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Incredible night and the dream lives on. Its weird thinking back to the days of Athletico Madrid and Red Star Belgrade worrying how many we would concede. I've never been so confident watching my team knowing we would do it, the way we play, the commitment and the quality are astounding at times. Sevilla are no mugs and that's one heck of a scalp to have claimed, yes we got a little lucky with the penalty being saved (terrible pen) but even if that had gone in i'd have backed us to knock in a third. What a time to be alive.
Johnthefoxrayner Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 6 minutes ago, Durnerz said: Incredible night and the dream lives on. Its weird thinking back to the days of Athletico Madrid and Red Star Belgrade worrying how many we would concede. I've never been so confident watching my team knowing we would do it, the way we play, the commitment and the quality are astounding at times. Sevilla are no mugs and that's one heck of a scalp to have claimed, yes we got a little lucky with the penalty being saved (terrible pen) but even if that had gone in i'd have backed us to knock in a third. What a time to be alive. I'm still buzzing what a night
AmarteyAndChill Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Claudio gets all the praise for our champions league success but Pearson didn't get any praise when we won the league? hmm
Number 6 Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Wow. Just incredible. Can't quite believe it has happened but think we fully deserved that. Embarrassment in Europe, we know what we're not. Seeing as I've seen some snide comments on Twitter, I'd like to point out that this means we'll play more European games following our title winning season than Forest did when they won it.
Thracian Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 7 hours ago, StriderHiryu said: Believe it or not we had 51% possesion in the first half, those were the official stats shown in the ground on the big screens. Which means that the second half was likely 80%+ for Sevilla! But it doesn't matter. How many clear cut chances did they really make? Even their penalty was highly questionable. Our two banks of four are one of the best in Europe (recently) alongside Atletico Madrid. You can see how hard it is for teams to break us down. And honestly both Vardy and Slimani should have scored down the other end. Anyway no need to complain, a truly magical night!!! It was inevitable. Vardy and Shinji had run themselves to a standstill and we had no-one who could replace them to do the same job. Instead we virtually abandoned the high press and adopted the two banks of four that served so well last season (Spurs away in the league comes to mind) and tried to base our counter-attacks on Mahrez/Albrighton breaking from deep midfield. And how well it worked, restricting Seville to a few crumbs by way of chances from open play and so nearly collecting another two or three goals ourselves. Yes, they had the ball a lot. But, last 30 minutes, instead of contesting early we contained their passing options and waited for them to make a mistake, thus reducing our chances of diving in and leaving space that could be exploited. Sevilla changed too. They abandoned going wide and peppering our penalty area with high crosses. Instead they tried to work the ball into the box with shorter, sharper passes but our discipline held apart from the penalty and the visitors found very little free space given the tightness of our defensive shield. Okay, our recycling of the ball when we did regain possession was clumsy or aimless at times but that was partly down to fatique. But when we did clear constructively, Albrighton and Mahrez continued to pose a significant threat.
Thracian Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 2 hours ago, Crazy Kop Corner said: It will definitely be a 'I' was there' game in years to come. Simply exhilarating and an absolute joy to share it with 30,000 like beauty souls. I took a flag home for just that reason - as a reminder of an historic game and another magical moment added to our history. At 68 years old it's great to be feeling like a kid again - all excited, glad to be alive and sharing such special moments with my kids.
David Hankey Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Excellent result and performance. I was disappointed with Sevilla but when you think Spanish football is like Scottish, just a two-horse race usually. Still we are through that is the main thing and everything to play for. Well Done, Shakey and the boys!!
Leamington Fox Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Souness is, in my opinion, a fairly repulsive character. This applies to him as a player and as a pundit. I remember him slagging us off last season, until it looked likely we were going to win the title. I remember him criticising Ranieiri, suggesting that you are not going to win things by being nice (at least that is one criticism you could not level at Souness).
FraserSorensen Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Leicester City added a new layer to their amazing story by knocking out Sevilla in the Champions League. These players should never be written off again, writes Adam Bate. Real Madrid and Barcelona are there. Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund too. Juventus joined them in the quarter-finals on Tuesday evening. Five clubs, European Cup winners one and all with 24 triumphs between them. They are joined in the last eight by Leicester City. Last year's miracle men, the team one win clear of the Premier League relegation zone, did for dark horses Sevilla on yet another crazy night at the King Power. "This is the greatest night in Leicester City's history," former Foxes striker Tony Cottee told Sky Sports. There is stiff competition for that particular honour but this did indeed feel like the night that the Premier League's greatest ever tale went global, taking its peculiarities to the continent. A game Sevilla should have finished inside 45 minutes in Spain, bent to their will. That Leicester did so by conjuring up a spirit that was supposed to have long gone, in players whose powers had long since deserted them, only made it all the more remarkable. It seems that Foxes not only never quit but they also do encores. Leicester were celebrating another against-the-odds triumph at the end Craig Shakespeare continued his policy of going back to basics with his line-up, for the third game in a row naming every single one of last season's first-choice team who is still on the club's books. And for the third game in a row they rewarded him in emphatic fashion. The new narrative, of course, is that these Leicester players let down Claudio Ranieri. There is an element of truth to that and it's a tale that'll endure. But let's not pretend that another one had not gathered pace - the idea that these players were just not good enough.There was logic to it. The world was still processing Leicester's rise, so the fall was easier to explain. The freak run was over and now the inadequacies were being exposed for the world to see. Wes Morgan and pals in the Champions League was never supposed to be pretty. What of that theory now? The men who have made a habit of demolishing football's myths have gone and added another layer to their own mythology. Shakespeare has got the band back together and they were determined to deliver all of their best hits. Unfortunately for Sevilla, they looked like a team ill-prepared to face the music. Jorge Sampaoli's side got a taste of what all the fuss had been about and while they were able to dominate the ball, it never quite amounted to control. Leicester can be difficult. The back-four were disciplined and Wilfred Ndidi worked hard to protect them. Marc Albrighton brought the energy and Shinji Okazaki was everywhere else. With Jamie Vardy stretching the Sevilla defence, Leicester always looked a danger on the counter-attack. Wes Morgan opened the scoring on an amazing night at the King Power Stadium When Shakespeare took Okazaki off after an hour in a real retro move, it underlined the fact that Leicester have their old template back. Even Riyad Mahrez was working, making more tackles than any of his team-mates in the first half. His free-kick brought the opening goal. Morgan bundled that one in at the far post and it was Marc Albrighton who swept in a second with his left foot. By the time Kasper Schmeichel made his second penalty save of the tie to deny Steven N'Zonzi late on, it wasn't even a surprise - least of all to Leicester. Vardy will be criticised for his conduct in engineering Samir Nasri's red card but this was the sort of unpleasantness that Gary Neville had wanted to see more of - the non-league scrapper using his brand of controlled aggression to outwit a Champions League veteran. And isn't that just this Leicester all over? No longer seen as the fairy-tale heroes but maybe something even more fun than that - the team who thrive on upsetting their critics as well as the odds; the back-street champions who the big boys hate having to deal with. Even this season Manchester City and Liverpool have been to the King Power and suffered the consequences. Add Sevilla to the list. They are going to need that knack for causing an upset come the quarter-finals whoever they face next. But don't tell them they can't do it. Shakespeare, only the third Englishman to oversee a Champions League knockout tie, has already refused to rule out winning the thing. Far-fetched, of course. But Leicester are still alive. Perhaps it's time we gave up telling this club and these players what's possible now. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/10802400/leicester-in-the-champions-league-quarter-finals-the-miracle-goes-on
smr Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 What a night lads, voice is a bit hoarse this morning! Still feel like I'm a bit buzzin' from it tbh!
foxfanazer Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 Feel today like I played that game last night! I'm battered and bruised all over! Seriously boys these are the days we'll talk about for the rest of our lives! Unbelievable what we've achieved in the last 5 years. Everyone who has been involved in this journey should be tremendously proud
Xen Posted 15 March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 10 hours ago, foxes_rule1978 said: Really surely they would have been in the CL the past three years giving they have won the EL the past three? however this is the best Sevilla side and they look good for auto qualification this year. So remarkable resilience for sure regardless They went out in the group stages each time, so dropped into the EL. They've not lost a knockout game in Europe for 3 years, until last night.
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