Claudio Ranieri urges Foxes to reverse Premier League form following European success

Former Leicester City manager Martin O’Neill has hailed the “remarkable” achievements of the Foxes in this season’s Champions League.

To belabor a point, Leicester have collected 13 points from their Champions League matches and only 12 in the EPL.

He said: “It will be the same like winning the Premier League”. Mahrez’s penalty was low and sent the goalkeeper the wrong way. Little old Leicester into the last 16 of the #UCL as group winners!

He has scored just one goal from open play in his last 20 club games and the Algerian admitted performing in the Champions League brings the best out of him.

He added: “Now the group is won, it is important to come back in the Premier League”.

“I don’t want to think about relegation”.

“What we did differently compared to other games was we managed to score when we had to”. “We had 70 per cent possession and had a lot of chances”, Ranieri said.

Having secured the top spot in their group, Leicester will now avoid drawing the heaviest of hitters in the knockout rounds, although any round of 16 pairing will nearly certainly see Leicester billed as the underdogs. I am very happy and very proud. Obviously you’re happy to be the best player in the Premier League but that was as well because of the team.

And while he maintained that drawing one of Europe’s big guns would be “a fantastic occasion”, winger Albrighton claimed Leicester’s players will not be content with glorious failure. The midfielder played the full game as the Foxes wrote another chapter in their fairytale rise. Hopefully, it’ll be the win that secures our qualification.

Jose Izquierdo pulled a goal back for the visitors but Ranieri’s side did enough to make it through to the next round with a game to spare.

Leicester’s Jekyll and Hyde transformation had taken place once again and they swarmed all over their punch-drunk opponents in a manner reminiscent of last season’s extraordinary title surge.

“We know that if we play our football, especially how we did when we played them away from home, then we will get the point”.

The stellar performers of last season, Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, have struggled desperately in domestic combat. Also, the team has lost their game against FC Porto in the Champions League on November 3, 2016.

Leicester will be hosting Club Brugge on Monday at their home turf at the King Power Stadium. In their fifth Champions League appearance, the Belgian club are looking to snap a four-match losing streak in European competition as a fifth straight loss would set a club record.