Leicester City and Juventus are through to the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals

Sevilla, though, had missed its last three penalties and Nzonzi made it four in a row, his weak effort easily saved by Schmeichel, who had made a save from Correa’s spot kick in the first leg. “So whoever they face, who knows?”

As Marc Albrighton, scorer of the second goal, put it: “Our game management was fantastic, our determination and hard work, [but] belief was the main one”.

After the match, Juve captain Gianluigi Buffon picked out Leicester as the most risky team in Friday’s quarter-finals draw in Nyon.

Asked how far he believed Leicester could progress in the tournament, he said.

With this victory, the dream continues for Leicester.

The Times said Leicester were “back in fantasy land”.

The Argentine has led Sevilla into a title challenge in LaLiga this season, where a triumph could match the Foxes’ own league win of last season for surprise.

A performance reminiscent of his those given by his dad Peter, Manchester United’s 1999 Champions league victor, reached a crescendo when the junior Schmeichel dived to his left to smother Steven N’Zonzi’s 80th-minute penalty.

Sevilla president Pepe Castro said on Tuesday he expects coveted coach Jorge Sampaoli to remain at the club next season, shrugging off reports that Barcelona are interested in hiring the Argentine for the vacant Camp Nou job.

Craig Shakespeare took over as caretaker manager and was later named as the manager for the remainder of the season.

Leicester swarmed Sevilla and was rewarded for its positive play when Wes Morgan bundled home Mahrez’s magnificent free kick played deep into the box.

“We were on top of our opponents the whole time, they sat back and we kept on probing but unfortunately we couldn’t score”.

It was the second time in the tie 30-year-old Schmeichel had saved a penalty, having also denied Joaquin Correa from the spot in the first leg when he nearly single-handedly kept a dominant Sevilla side down to a slender 2-1 advantage.

Leicester City are set for the biggest Champions League revenue windfall ever enjoyed by a Premier League club after they booked their place in the quarter-finals.

“He hasn’t changed that much and that is a good thing”. Dilly ding, dilly dong!’ Champions League we’re having a laugh… Perhaps this was one big reason behind Shakespeare’s assertion that they didn’t care who they got in the quarter-finals, because the bigger the better.

Another former Leicester player and current TV pundit, Tony Cottee, called it a “real panic decision”, while The Independent’s Chief Sports Writer, Ian Herbert, called the firing: “A despicable act of felony which shows how football has lost touch with its soul”. The club chief said that the manager is now focused on the key Champions League trip to Leicester City, but hopes he will put pen to paper on anew contract “as soon as possible”.