Atlético Madrid’s swat-team stifle fury and craft of Leicester artisans | Barney Ronay


Craig Shakespeare’s side raise the roof but mastery of visitors hauls down the shutters on a glorious Champions League campaign

And, breathe again. For Leicester City the dream did not so much die at the King Power Stadium as bleed away, at first quietly before expiring in a defiant blizzard of noise and hustle. With an hour gone at a ground that crackled all night Jamie Vardy revived this second leg with an equaliser to make it 1-1, and 2-1 to Atlético Madrid overall, as the score would stay to the end.

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