They are the last Premier League club left in the competition and face Atletico Madrid in their quarter-final first leg in Spain on Wednesday.
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Griezmann collected the ball outside his own area and ran to just inside the Leicester box before being crudely barged over by Albrighton. Kasper Schmeichel saved the spot-kicks against Sevilla – denying Joaquin Correa and Steven N’Zonzi – but could not repeat the trick against Griezmann in the Vicente Calderon Stadium. ‘I like him, I really rate him as a striker.
“I think they are betting everything on the second leg”. You can’t guess on those ones. It’s a definite free-kick but it’s out of the box. The referee has a hard job.
Shakespeare confirmed that captain and central defender Wes Morgan would not be able to play in Madrid due to the back injury which kept him out of the clash at Goodison.
“It was one of the major decisions in the game”, he said.
‘These players deserve this opportunity and we aim to keep that going’.
“It’s what you play for, those type of high-pressure games where everything is at stake”.
“We changed it, we had to sacrifice one of the forwards and put Wilfred deep in a 4-5-1”, Shakespeare explained to BT Sport.
“We didn’t come to try to get a point, the team were picked to try to get three points”. You saw what a top team Madrid are.
Both sides seemed content to settle the tie at the King Power in six days’ time with Atletico holding a 1-0 advantage after the break.
The pro in me can’t avoid a sense of scorn for what the players did and what they threw away by downing tools.
Schmeichel said: “Yeah, there were a few yellows knocking about so he’ll be a big miss”.
Charismatic coach Simeone has gone on to turn Madrid’s “other” team into perennially formidable opponents in his five-year tenure, taking them to two Champions League finals in the last three years and four successive quarter-finals.
“The atmosphere was nice but we just had to leave it and focus on the game”. He works in midfield, assists like a number 10 and finishes line a number nine.
“It was a hard-fought match. They bet everything on the second leg”.
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Shakespeare criticized the penalty decision. “But we know we still have a challenge ahead against a very good team”.
