Leicester jolt Sevilla to book place in Champions League quarter-finals
Leicester City players applaud after bealting Sevilla on Mar 14, 2017.
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LEICESTER: Back from a inlet of despair, Leicester City once again scaled extraordinary heights with a scattered 2-0 feat over Spanish bar Sevilla to strech a quarter-finals of a Champions League on Tuesday.
Skipper Wes Morgan’s 28th notation bid and Marc Albrighton’s accurate shot after a mangle saw Craig Shakespeare’s group overturn a 2-1 defecit they suffered in former manager Claudio Ranieri’s final compare in charge.
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Sevilla missed a chastisement and had Samir Nasri sent off as their hopes of a initial ever quarter-final in a Champions League evaporated inside a rocking King Power Stadium.
Leicester, who are concerned in a relegation conflict in a Premier League, have now won all 3 games given Ranieri was sacked and transposed by his partner Shakespeare.
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Sevilla, who had not conceded an divided idea in this season’s competition, piled brazen in a shutting minutes, yet Champions League debutants Leicester hold organisation on a scattered night.
The initial idea for a home side came from set pieces and it was from a Riyad Mahrez giveaway flog that they took a lead with skipper Morgan bundling a round into a Sevilla net with his thigh.
Ahead on divided goals, a conditions played ideally into Leicester’s hands as they sat low and pennyless fast with Jamie Vardy always a hazard on a counter-attack.
Sevilla began a second half with some-more purpose and came within a cloak of paint of equalising in a 54th notation when Sergio Escudero’s dipping bid from 30 metres flog Schmeichel yet struck a underside of a crossbar.
It valid a pivotal impulse as reduction than a notation after a round forsaken pleasantly for Marc Albrighton only inside a chastisement area and he was authorised time and space to dispatch a left-foot shot past Sevilla screw Sergio Rico.
Just when Sevilla were commencement to pin Leicester behind in their possess area, Nasri needlessly got himself sent off after squaring adult to Vardy with both players bumping foreheads.
Nasri perceived a second yellow label while Vardy, an exasperation all night to Sevilla, was cautioned.
Sevilla were handed a salvation roughly immediately yet when Schmeichel clattered into Vitolo and a arbitrate awarded a penalty.
However, N’Zonzi was handed a charge of putting Sevilla behind into a tie yet his diseased flog was saved by Schmeichel.
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