Don’t Underestimate Ourselves and Leicester City – Monaco Coach

The team drawn first will play the quarter-final first leg at home, with those drawn second away, and those first leg ties will be shown exclusively live on BT Sport on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th April.

Leonardo Jardim is drawing inspiration from Didier Deschamps’ Monaco side that made an unlikely run to the 2004 Champions League final as his team attempt to reverse a 5-3 deficit against Manchester City in the last 16.

Guardiola chose an attacking line up for the second leg but City didn’t really threaten during a poor first-half showing. “At the right moment, you should be there but we were not”.

“It’s hard for any of the big clubs to go and win the big tournaments when they’re conceding as many as City have”.

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“I tried to convince them in all the meetings we had to come here, try to attack and score”, Guardiola told a post-match press conference. At this level, we have to play for more than 45 minutes.

“I think there’ll be a lot of space and attacking intent tomorrow and, perhaps, a lot of goals”. Sometimes we have to be special and be lucky. We were the City people know from this season. They’ve not been convincing at the back at all.

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“Because we messed up just a couple of small things and today that’s what I am talking about, the need to correct those small details”. We should have done better and deserve to be in the next round.

Without the in-form Toure in midfield, City only had Fernandinho to protect a back four that contained only one specialist centre-back in John Stones.

Craig Shakespeare has warned Leicester City they can not allow their sensational Champions League exploits to affect their Premier League preparations.

Keane went on to suggest City were guilty of lining up their defensive line too high up the pitch for the decisive late free-kick that led to Tiemoue Bakayoko tie clinching goal, he was typically unforgiving of their frailties at the back. “We have to continue like this”, he said. We knew they had quality players, we knew they had unsafe players. And lots of them. “I took it well and placed it to the side of the keeper”.

And then there were eight, and remarkably, Leicester City is the only English side left in the business end of the Champions League.