What we learned from CL

It was a good night for English clubs as Leicester and Tottenham earned 1-0 victories in the Champions League.

Here we pick out five things that we learned from Tuesday’s European action…

Leicester are still a force

The Foxes might have suffered as many Premier League defeats already this season as during the entirety of their title-winning campaign, but they made it back-to-back wins in the Champions League with a 1-0 win at home to Porto.

This was classic Leicester, getting their goal and then riding the subsequent storm while playing on the counter-attack. Their seventh 1-0 win of 2016 showed that Claudio Ranieri’s men can still do the business when they are fully focused on the task in hand.

Perhaps that’s how it will be for them this season. A repeat of their Premier League success might be too much to ask but the challenge of Europe is a new one for these players. It’s one they appear to be ready to embrace.

Slimani adds a new dimension

The arrival of Islam Slimani certainly gives Leicester something they didn’t have last season. He had marked his Premier League home debut with two goals and followed it up with the winner on his first Champions League appearance for the club.

Porto already know all about the Algerian – this was his sixth goal in four games against them in 2016 alone having haunted them with Sporting prior to his arrival in England – but stopping him is clearly another matter.

Ranieri had previously been forced to choose between the aerial presence of Leonardo Ulloa and …

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