WES MORGAN hailed another Mission Impossible as Leicester reached the Champions League quarter-finals.
Goals from Morgan and Marc Albrighton overturned Sevilla’s first-leg lead, before Kasper Schmeichel made a late penalty save from Steven Nzonzi.
Morgan said: “We’ve pulled off the impossible again. It’s incredible, I can’t believe it. We’re the newcomers in the Champions League and didn’t expect to get this far.
“It must be the greatest night in the club’s history, I’m not sure it’ll happen again. We proved a lot of people wrong.”
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The Foxes — last season’s shock Premier League winners — will learn their quarter-final opponents on Friday.
But Morgan said: “We’ll take whoever comes. We have to dust ourselves down and concentrate on the league, but we can enjoy this moment.”
Albrighton added: “What a night. We thoroughly deserved the victory.
“We rode our luck at times but defended triumphantly and deserve to be in the last eight.”
Morgan broke the deadlock in the 27th minute when he forced home Riyad Mahrez’s free-kick at the far post.
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The captain added: “As I saw the ball coming I just bundled it in.
“I was in the right place at the right time.”
Albrighton doubled the lead before Sevilla midfielder Samir Nasri was sent off for a second booking after a flare-up with Jamie Vardy.
The Spaniards were still thrown a lifeline ten minutes from time with a penalty that would have forced extra-time.
But former Stoke star Nzonzi’s weak effort was easily saved by Schmeichel. The keeper said simply: “Making saves is what I’m there to do.
“Whoever we get now will be a top drawer club.”
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