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Leicester City’s new manager Craig Shakespeare kept faith with an unchanged team for Tuesday’s Champions League last-16 second-leg match at home to Sevilla.
Shakespeare has picked the same team for the three matches he has overseen since succeeding Claudio Ranieri, who was sacked as manager after Leicester’s 2-1 loss at Sevilla in the first leg.
It is the same team as the one that carried Leicester to the Premier League title last season, with January signing Wilfred Ndidi taking the place of N’Golo Kante, now of Chelsea, in midfield.
Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli made eight changes to the team held 1-1 by Leganes last weekend, for which he rested several first-team players.
Samir Nasri, Steven N’Zonzi and captain Vicente Iborra were among the players who came in, while Wissam Ben Yedder took over from Stevan Jovetic in the lone striker’s role.
Leicester are bidding to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time, while Sevilla last graced the last eight of the European Cup back in 1958.
Starting line-ups in the Champions League last 16 second-leg match between Leicester City and Sevilla at the King Power Stadium on Tuesday (1-2 on aggregate; 1945 GMT kick-off):
Leicester (4-4-2): Kasper Schmeichel; Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan (capt), Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs; Riyad Mahrez, Danny Drinkwater, Wilfred Ndidi, Marc Albrighton; Jamie Vardy, Shinji Okazaki
Coach: Craig Shakespeare (ENG)
Sevilla (3-4-3): Sergio Rico; Gabriel Mercado, Nicolas Pareja, Adil Rami; Pablo Sarabia, Vicente Iborra (capt), Steven N’Zonzi, Sergio Escudero; Vitolo, Wissam Ben Yedder, Samir Nasri
Coach: Jorge Sampaoli (ARG)
Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)
AFP
Source: Punch News
