(Reuters) – Leicester City’s James Maddison heaped reward on defender Wesley Fofana on Thursday after he delivered an impressive performance within the Europa Conference League quarter-finals towards PSV Eindhoven while fasting for Ramadan.
After a goalless first leg, Maddison and Ricardo Pereira scored as Leicester got here from behind within the return match to beat the Dutch membership 2-1 and attain their first European semi-final.
They will play AS Roma for a spot within the ultimate of Europe’s third-tier competitors.
The 21-year-old Fofana, who not too long ago returned from a severe leg damage, confirmed wonderful tempo and broke up a number of harmful PSV assaults within the second half.
“The togetherness of the boys is unbelievable,” Maddison mentioned. “For instance, Wesley Fofana is fasting on the minute – he isn’t consuming or consuming something all day and he places in a performance like that.
“He’s stopping all of the counter-attacks by sprinting. That epitomises what we’re about by way of braveness.”
Leicester supervisor Brendan Rodgers was pleased with the response of his gamers within the second half.
“We’re a workforce that is younger by way of European soccer. We come to PSV Eindhoven with a fantastic historical past in successful the European Cup in 1988. For us, we’re so younger in it,” Rodgers mentioned.
“These are nice experiences for us, we confirmed nice character and I’m so comfortable for the gamers and it is the primary semi-final in our historical past.”
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
