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Leicester’s thrilling Champions League debut is at an end after a 2-1 aggregate defeat to Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Here, Press Association Sport takes a numerical look at the Foxes’ first foray among Europe’s elite. <\/p>\n
10 – matches played by Craig Shakespeare and Claudio Ranieri’s men.<\/p>\n
11 – goals scored.<\/p>\n
13 – points total as they finished top of Group G.<\/p>\n
40 per cent – Leicester’s average possession in Champions League games according to statistics on uefa.com. <\/p>\n
2,584 – passes completed by the Foxes in European competition, out of 3,403 attempted.<\/p>\n
1 – midfielder Danny Drinkwater was the only Leicester player to feature in all 10 games. <\/p>\n
4 – goals scored by Riyad Mahrez, their top scorer in the competition. His goals all came in the group stage and included two penalties.<\/p>\n
31 – saves made by Kasper Schmeichel as he conceded only four goals in eight appearances.<\/p>\n
1 – team in the Champions League era who have gone further than Leicester on their first appearance – Villarreal’s run to the semi-finals in 2005-06. <\/p>\n
55 – Leicester’s ranking in the UEFA club co-efficients at the end of their run, one place ahead of Sporting Lisbon. Before the season started, they did not even appear among the 450-plus clubs ranked.<\/p>\n
Source: PA<\/p>\n
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![\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\nLeicester’s thrilling Champions League debut is at an end after a 2-1 aggregate defeat to Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\nHere, Press Association Sport takes a numerical look at the Foxes’ first foray among Europe’s elite. <\/p>\n10 – matches played by Craig Shakespeare and Claudio Ranieri’s men.<\/p>\n11 – goals scored.<\/p>\n13 – points total as they finished top of Group G.<\/p>\n 40 per cent – Leicester’s average possession in Champions League games according to statistics on uefa.com. <\/p>\n2,584 – passes completed by the Foxes in European competition, out of 3,403 attempted.<\/p>\n 1 – midfielder Danny Drinkwater was the only Leicester player to feature in all 10 games. <\/p>\n4 – goals scored by Riyad Mahrez, their top scorer in the competition. His goals all came in the group stage and included two penalties.<\/p>\n31 – saves made by Kasper Schmeichel as he conceded only four goals in eight appearances.<\/p>\n 1 – team in the Champions League era who have gone further than Leicester on their first appearance – Villarreal’s run to the semi-finals in 2005-06. <\/p>\n55 – Leicester’s ranking in the UEFA club co-efficients at the end of their run, one place ahead of Sporting Lisbon. Before the season started, they did not even appear among the 450-plus clubs ranked.<\/p>\nSource: PA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\tPlease enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\nFrom Football.co.uk<\/a>\nSouth Africa Today Sport \u2013 Sport News Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leicester’s thrilling Champions League debut is at an end after a 2-1 aggregate defeat to Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals. Here, Press Association Sport takes a numerical look at the Foxes’ first foray among Europe’s elite. 10 – matches played by Craig Shakespeare and Claudio Ranieri’s men. 11 – goals scored. 13 – points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[371,30,120,80,188],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league","tag-football-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/168f2fad840adfa793c1dec8c594de65.jpg\"){kind=link}