Post Match Leicester 1 Atletico Madrid 1

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homer said:
Was a fox walking through the changing rooms, and then onto the pitch, cut with LCFC and Champions League imagery

Completely amazing
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It was awesome. We should show it before every game. Let's hope someone makes it available.

I have to say, I'm so proud of our club. We really, really know how to put on a show.
 
yackandandah said:
I was about to say the same thing BN. End of an era? Don't be daft!

It's a marker for sure, and a time to reflect, to remember our journey and be immensely proud but no way is it the start of an inevitable decline.
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We have gained £70 million from our CL exploits on top of our Premier League income. We have mega rich and ambitious owners who have a stated plan to make us a top 6 club on a regular and established basis. Chelsea won the League, finished 9th last year after flirting with relegation and will hopefully win it again this year.

No reason why we can't finish top 8 next year or higher. We can and will play in Europe again, one way or another.

We have exciting games still to come this season. Who doesn't want to beat Arsenal away next week? Who doesn't want to beat Spurs and stop them catching Chelsea?

Proud and happy I am.
 
Volpone said:
Yet the goal Vardy did score was one of his best ever. Very few players, including those in your illustrious list, would have had the lightning composure to score that.

Instead of blasting the ball first time, he saw that there were at least 3 defenders on the goal line including the keeper. The only place he could put it was high, over their heads, and as near the post as possible.

How he did all that in a split second was simply astounding. No wonder he was the first player Simeone went to after the game, embraced him, looked him in the eyes and said 'Come and play for me next year'
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He mis-hit the goal he scored. I thought he placed it initially but after watching it replayed slowly many times he actually didn't connect how he wanted to.

Don't get me wrong - I seem to be attacking the guy a lot - he's a great player in certain situations but he's not a natural goalscorer as some people on here are saying.

He would be a good buy for Atletico Madrid, he runs the channels well and can press, but he wouldn't get to start in every game - I'd suggest he'll play less than half the games. It's probably the best club he could go to. If they offered £25m+ as the Leicester owner I'd take it and then adapt our gameplan accordingly. We're going to have to change a few players anyway this summer.
 
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Profondo Rosso said:
An utterly beautiful, surreal and bittersweet night.

As others have said, it felt like the end of an era walking down those stairs tonight. At the same time, I feel tonight is the first time I've been truly able to appreciate it all - not just the last 2 years, but all of it, all of the last 9 years... from that moment standing in the rain at the away end at Stoke watching us get relegated League One to that full-time whistle tonight - it now feels like one complete "era".

Not just the football but everything - I was 18 back then, leaving school and home for the first time - I've lived in 4 different cities since then - all the moments I've shared with my friends and family or on my own - watching Robert Huth head home the 3rd against ManCity last season on my own in a pokey room with a hole in it I was living alone in at the time on a dodgy internet stream is somehow now as romantic as being at the game.

Bizarre random tidbits I remember over the years - Marty Fryatt's 2 late goals against Bristol Rovers and celebrating over a Bristol Rovers fan I once knew but haven't seen in 8 1/2 years, Chris Wood's hat-trick vs Bristol City when I was convinced we were going up before we collapsed that season and bragging to my housemate (still one of my closest friends - but a Liverpool fan) that we were going up. Jack Hobbs, Michael Morrison, Wayne Brown and Bruno Berner becoming an excellent Championship back 4 more than the sum of its parts, Yann Kermorgant and Anthony Knockaert's penalties, DEENEY, Yakubu going on this bizarre bastard scoring run despite being the laziest player in history (besides maybe Jermaine Beckford). Matty Fryatt's lengthy run vs Newcastle. Andy King's goal against Cardiff in some made turn around in the play-offs when we thought we were out of it, Andy King's late winner against West Ham to start the great escape, Andy King's late winner against Plymouth in some obscure Champiomship match long consigned to completely unnotable history. Vardy and Nugent's godlike Championship strike force that even kept current Championship top scorer Chris Wood out the side. Vardy's 11 in a row. The 5-3 vs ManUtd with Vardy's performance still probably the single greatest individual performance I've ever seen from a Leicester player.

Anthony Knockaert scored about 3 of the best 5 Leicester goals I've ever seen - all against Huddersfield in the same season, the beautiful, erratic, tempremental little magician - remember the first few games he played it was clear he was a completely different kind of player to anything I'd ever seen at Leicester before. Then Mahrez cane and was even better! His goals against Chelsea, Watford, Swansea and a sweet free-kick in the Champions League. The annual 4 putting goals past Derby rout we had going in which Nugent would inevitably score as he always did against Ipswich and Burnley and him chasing squirrels round against QPR.

Lloyd Dyer against Bolton, Drinkwater the best player in the Champuonship thundering one i against Watford. Marc Albrighton the beautiful big nosed Brummie bastard with our first ever Champions League goal and the winner against Seville.

Robert Huth was maybe the most important signing of all. Him and Morgan will go down inlegrnd, so many important goals against Spurs, ManCity, ManItd, Southampton, Seville etc. Danny Simpson proving everyone wrong turning himself around and becoming a consistent rock at the back, Kasper's penalty saves vs Seville and also a last minute one against Boro in the snow. Fuchs - probably the best full-back and free signing I can ever remember. Leo's last gasp goals against West Ham and causing an earthquake against Norwich, Okazaki - probably the most bizarre footballer I've ever seen, I still don't know what quite to make of him but he's endlessly loveable. Kante, Cambiasso, Steve Howard, Wasilewski, Matty James, Ritchie De Laet, Benalouane, Paul Gallagher, Ritchie Wellens... I'm sure I've left many names out of the actors who've all played a role in this.

And of course Nigel Pearson, Claudio Ranieri and Craig Shakespeare who've all played a huge role in all this.

It feels like the end of an era, but what an era, so many moments tinged with my life for different reasons. What a ****ing performance that was, gave me goosebumps tonight. Love this ****ing team. Wouldn't want to support anyone else.
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There is not much to add to some excellent posts.

One interesting thing on the bench was the attitude of Benelouane. His attitude after being substituted was excellent. He went over to Mike Stowell to point something out. He then went to Craig Shakespeare. The last player to do this was Cambiasso. Then he did something Cambiasso had never done; at a break in the play he went to Danny Simpson and was pointing something out. Clearly he felt strongly and had thought about the game.
 
FIF said:
And scored from 1 in 22 attempts. Nobody can defend that percentage. We should have at least 3 goals from 22 attempts. Our finishing let us down.
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How does this apply to the 19 that Barcelona had tonight?
 
David Gwilliam said:
There is not much to add to some excellent posts.

One interesting thing on the bench was the attitude of Benelouane. His attitude after being substituted was excellent. He went over to Mike Stowell to point something out. He then went to Craig Shakespeare. The last player to do this was Cambiasso. Then he did something Cambiasso had never done; at a break in the play he went to Danny Simpson and was pointing something out. Clearly he felt strongly and had thought about the game.
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Benelouane is a great professional.
 
Robin127 said:
Benelouane is a great professional.
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Agreed. Such a turnaround from looking like he had no future with us, to now playing in the Quarter Finals of the Champions League. Hopefully he'll have a key part to play next season.

He must have taken a dump on Ranieri's car bonnet.
 
I love a cult hero and Benny is becoming one in my eyes.
 
SJN-Fox said:
Vote for UCL player of the week

http://mvp.uefa.com
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What a strange choice. Did Vardy even get the motm in either leg? I thought in each leg it was an AM defensive player. I don't think Vardy was even our best player in either game.
 
FIF said:
What a strange choice. Did Vardy even get the motm in either leg? I thought in each leg it was an AM defensive player. I don't think Vardy was even our best player in either game.
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He barely touched the ball in the first leg, but second leg I thought he was magnificent. I think this vote is just about the second leg though.
 
Had we progressed, we would be facing Real Madrid in the semis.
 
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