For the Foxes, boss
Craig Shakespeare falling short of staging another miracle with his Boys and
trying to continue writing history as the unknown and underdog, for their misfortunes
their Champions fairytale ended.
Blame it on that
controversial call at Vicente Calderon a week ago, where they loss by just a
lone goal product of a nonexistent penalty kick and the Spanish side coming to King
Power Stadium, ready to seal the deal.
Still kudos to this
hard fighting and effort filled squad that never gave up on his desire to
excel.
Yes, those amazing
and one of a kind Leicester City Bunch looking to continue making history as
the ugly duckling that in the English Premier League, surprised many after
becoming its champions in last campaign.
A fairy tale of a
championship run and one that had its continuance in Europe if not the world
most prestigious event in its UEFA Champions League, were this Lancashire squad
came in, saw and started doing its magic.
I mean a squad that
in this campaign in league play started having all sorts of problem and being in
danger of going down into the abyss of relegation that these occupied briefly
and voila, after the Emperor left they staged an all-around revival.
With Champions League
play, in its quarterfinal stages, one thing in this series between the Foxes
and Colchoneros, being a center of attention in many football circles due to its
intensity and hard fought contest between these two squads.
The push and drive exercised
by the City chaps in both matches was evident of this group unity and determination,
still with arrivals in the second match from Ulloa, Ndidi and Vardy, the Foxes would
put this affair away and wait for another top squad to face off.
In addition, playing
with the likes of Atletico Madrid is not playing a runt or scrub as the squad managed
by Diego Simeone is one class act and utmost representative of Spain famed La
Liga as the other squad besides Barza and Real Madrid.
What a match staged
by the both of these titans and soon the whistle blew, both initial elevens ,
tis when the clock was in the 26 minute when an opportune and Atletico Madrid man in
Saul score the go ahead goal in the overall series.
Still do not count
these Foxes out of the competition when a pumped up City squad came up to generate
several opportunities that could be the difference in this match and these
never came.
In minute 60 Jamie
Vardy sent a ball behind the nets of Jan Oblak who desperately could not stop
the volley and the game gave a very dramatic twist for the best for the locals
and a frantic venue, hopeful of its Boys staging a comeback.
As Shakespeare with its
4-4-1-1 sending a lone Vardy and Okazaki up front, in the 46 the move paid off
for the Foxes boss substituting the Japanese with the Andean and this really
making the difference with a series of arrivals in the Spanish side backfield.
At the end the local
Foxes came up short on their effort of making it into the next rounds of this prestigious
event that many thought they would not even make it pass the first rounds and
hence the results.
A major performance and
great squad that elevated once again the reputation of England is top flight Premiership
and once again this squad get an all-around applause for their one of a kind performance
in tis competition.
Very well in the
ranks of Premiership, with a campaign that seem hopeless for this squad, all of
a sudden tier is a revival and waking up by moving up the table from eighteen places
now situated in eleventh and maybe more.
To conclude the
determination that Leicester City display in both legs and 180 minutes of play was
a reason for Atletico Don Diego Simeone to seek every one of the Foxes players
to shake their hands in a way to display is admiration and recognition for their
hard work.
As they state, there is always a next time,
these Foxes can!
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