FC Copenhagen 0-0 Leicester City

By Shamoon HafezBBC Sport

Last updated on 2 November 2016.From the section Football78

Premier League champions Leicester edged closer to the Champions League knockout stages thanks to a goalless draw at FC Copenhagen.

The best chance of a lacklustre match came in the 90th minute as Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel pushed away Andreas Cornelius's header.

The closest the visitors came to scoring was when winger Jeffrey Schlupp's deflected shot dribbled into the hands of keeper Robin Olsen.

Claudio Ranieri's Leicester, who won their opening three Group G games, need only a point from their final two matches to reach the last 16.

They have not conceded a goal in four games and remain top of the group, three points ahead of Porto.

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Schmeichel saves the day - again

Leicester had Schmeichel to thank for a late save to deny Cornelius, just as he did at home two weeks ago.

The Dane kept his concentration by springing to his right to claw away the ex-Cardiff striker's flicked header from Kasper Kusk's cross.

Before the match, Ranieri said his side were close to "achieving something special" in Europe's elite club competition.

History is on their side as all the previous 64 teams that had won their opening three games all progressed to the knockout stages.

The draw means they will finish, at worst, third in the group, securing at least a place in the Europa League.

Copenhagen have not lost at home in all competitions since August 2015, a run that now stands at 29 games.

Vardy's barren run goes on

Jamie Vardy heatmap — Leicester striker Jamie Vardy had to come deep in search of the ball and also found himself on the right-hand side of the pitch. It meant the Foxes had no player further forward, limiting their chances in the final third

England striker Jamie Vardy scored 24 league goals in a stunning campaign last season, but has managed only three this term in all competitions.

He has not netted for club or country in 12 games stretching back to 10 September.

With regular partner Shinji Okazaki on the bench, Vardy was deployed as a lone frontman against Copenhagen, a role which did not help his prospects of ending his goal drought.

He had only one shot in the match and his 37 touches of the ball were the second fewest of any player in the Leicester starting XI.

Man of the match - William Kvist (Copenhagen)

What they said

Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "I am happy. The first 20 minutes was not so good but the second half was much better.

"Kasper Schmeichel is a great keeper and we are very, very, happy. I was expecting this kind of match. I wanted to do more on the counter-attack. We had a chance to score but a draw is OK.

"It is our first time in the Champions League. We want to be very, very attentive until the end."

What next?

Leicester host West Brom in the Premier League on Sunday (16:40 GMT), having won only one of their previous four games.

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The stats you need to know

Leicester City are the first team in Champions League history to keep a clean sheet in each of their first four games in the competition
Copenhagen have lost only two of their 12 home games in the Champions League (won six, drawn four, lost two)
The Foxes managed only one shot on target for the second game running
Copenhagen have allowed their opponents a combined only seven shots on target in the Champions League this season, fewer than any other team
English teams have only lost one of their Champions League games against Danish opposition, winning eight, drawing three and losing one (Manchester United at Copenhagen in November 2006)
This match featured only three shots on target, the fewest in a Champions League game this season

Line-ups
Match Stats
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Line-ups

FC Copenhagen

Formation 4-4-2

31Olsen
22Ankersen
25M Jorgensen
5Johansson
3Augustinsson
33Falk JensenSubstituted forToutouhat 65'minutes
6Kvist
8Delaney
7VerbicSubstituted forKuskat 83'minutes
19Santander
11Cornelius

Substitutes

1Andersen
2Høgli
15Antonsson
16Gregus
17Kusk
23Pavlovic
24Toutouh

Leicester

Formation 4-4-2

1Schmeichel
2HernándezBooked at 42mins
5MorganBooked at 78mins
6HuthBooked at 24mins
28Fuchs
26Mahrez
13Amartey
4DrinkwaterBooked at 22mins
15SchluppSubstituted forOkazakiat 71'minutes
9Vardy
7Musa

Substitutes

10King
11Albrighton
17Simpson
20Okazaki
21Zieler
22Gray
23Ulloa

Referee:: Dr. Felix Brych
Attendance:: 34,146

Match Stats

Home TeamFC CopenhagenAway TeamLeicester

Possession: Home56%; Away44%

Shots: Home19; Away11

Shots on Target: Home2; Away1

Corners: Home4; Away4

Fouls: Home3; Away17

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Match ends, FC København 0, Leicester City 0.
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Full Time
Second Half ends, FC København 0, Leicester City 0.

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Zanka (FC København) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
90'+1'
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Foul by Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).
90'
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Attempt missed. Federico Santander (FC København) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top left corner.
90'
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Attempt saved. Andreas Cornelius (FC København) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kasper Kusk with a cross.
90'
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Youssef Toutouh (FC København) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
90'
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Foul by Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City).
88'
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Kasper Kusk (FC København) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
88'
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Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
86'
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Offside, FC København. Thomas Delaney tries a through ball, but Federico Santander is caught offside.
85'
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Ludwig Augustinsson (FC København) wins a free kick on the left wing.
85'
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Foul by Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City).
83'
Substitution
Substitution, FC København. Kasper Kusk replaces Benjamin Verbic.
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William Kvist (FC København) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
83'
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Foul by Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City).
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Attempt blocked. Peter Ankersen (FC København) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Federico Santander with a cross.
78'
Booking
Wes Morgan (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
78'
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Federico Santander (FC København) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City).

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Comment posted by jamessnow, at 21:51 2 Nov 2016
Well done Leicester. The only team in the competition to have 4 clean sheets. You can only beat what's in front of you.
Comment posted by Buzz1960, at 21:51 2 Nov 2016
We didn't pick the group, we're rookies, give us a break! First half looked fairly ordinary, second half we looked quite positive. Anyway, 4 games and no goals conceded.
Comment posted by Werewolf-Therewolf, at 21:50 2 Nov 2016
...... at least leicester will be in the knockout phase, unlike Spurs, a club with ideas far above their station.
Comment posted by ps, at 21:51 2 Nov 2016
Leicester specialisein shocks, so the bigger the team the bigger the shock when Leicester beat them. Let the dream continue. A Hull fan.
Comment posted by Buzz1960, at 22:44 2 Nov 2016
I'm a Leicester supporter of more years than I care to remember and I'm so proud that they haven't let themselves down in the CL. If they get out of the group, which I think they will, who cares if they get a big team? Just another ride on the LCFC roller-coaster!
Comment posted by James Adams, at 21:55 2 Nov 2016
It's not really an easy group. It's got the English champions in it.
Comment posted by shadow warrior, at 22:05 2 Nov 2016
Not sure why anyone can say anything negative about Leicester, there biggest game now is Brugge at home and a draw should be enough, I think they have enough already.

knock out stage will be interesting, that game should and will be the main event of the season,they will be ok in the Prem, this season is still a success for them if you ask me. Next season they should be a settled Prem team.
Comment posted by WurzelJ, at 22:26 2 Nov 2016
Ooooh, the HYS mods are sensitive tonight. I congratulated Seville in Spanish, and translated it. I also congratulated Leicester. I then asked by what right the Senegalese lady should be able to dictate to the Scots and ourselves what we should wear on our shirts. For this I was deleted. Which bit didn't you like, o mods ?!
Comment posted by Eye_Said, at 23:54 2 Nov 2016
Wrt comments as to Leicester's group being 'easy'; personally I don't agree - at CL level any team is dangerous (Real's draw today shows that) and so to earn points, match after match, on the club's first foray into the CL is a super effort. My team (Man City) struggled for several years in the group stages - and still haven't really cracked the competition...
Well done Foxes!
Comment posted by markyp1965, at 21:59 2 Nov 2016
Where do some of you people get off? Talk about bitter!!! Wouldn't expect anything else from Legendary_Blues......I can't imagine that he would be able to find a positive or complimentary thing to say about anything outside of his own little bubble.

Well done to Leicester, probably exceeded expectations so far. As for Spurs, suffering from playing 'home' games at Wembley it would seem.
Comment posted by Buster Nut, at 22:07 2 Nov 2016
Re. 11.
What on earth are you banging on about you complete imbecile.
British teams should be able to wear Poppy's for obvious reasons. If you need these explaining then I'm unsure how you even managed to switch on your computer to write that post. What does a foreign terrorist organisation have to do with it?
Comment posted by Aqcuiesce, at 08:47 3 Nov 2016
Can't believe there are so many Leicester bashers. For those who say they were lucky last year, really!!. You can't be lucky over 38 games where you play all the other teams home and away. The best team (with consistency) wins the league. Every other team in history can point to the odd game in 38 where they had the rub of the green. So all previous Champs lucky to? Cut LCFC some slack.
Comment posted by Wilkinson B, at 06:55 3 Nov 2016
As Liverpool Fan & England Fan of Football, Im quite taken back by LCFC's Champions League performances, "The Italian One" is really bossing his players in the right manner for these games.

It says something to not have conceeded a goal yet in the competition, however I wonder has there ever been a team who havent conceeded a goal in a whole group phase?

Well done LCFC, Spurs Must Be Jealous
Comment posted by manofkent, at 00:28 3 Nov 2016
@39 totally agree - Spurs had easiest group and looks like they will struggle to qualify. Still 3 English teams in last 16 isn't bad, Leicester will be there on merit and let's hope they can go further.
Comment posted by DMT, at 22:22 2 Nov 2016
Well done to Leicester . Who cares about the strength of the group. You progress through, and eventually you meet a top quality team. So far Leicester have done everything right. Trolls should wait until they get knocked out before they start dripping on , but they might want to take a seat because I think they'll be in the CL for some time yet.
Comment posted by MarkS, at 23:08 2 Nov 2016
For those saying it's an easy group, I'd say Tottenham's group is easier but apart from that there is no easy group at this level. In fact my CL coupon was one away, I had leicester to win, I even had the real game as a draw and that proves my point at this level anything can and does happen. I'd love to see them do well and it funds more players to come in to keep it all going.
Comment posted by whu421, at 22:19 2 Nov 2016
"10. Posted by Gary Doc
Leicester have by far the easiest group of all the uk teams"

Leicester finished top, so were a top seed, so therefore avoid all of (most of anyway) Europe's other big clubs automatically. The other prem teams were not a top seed, hence they have more difficult groups.
Comment posted by U16484214, at 21:58 2 Nov 2016
Whats the biggest shock of this round, mcfc beating barca or legia drawing with real
Comment posted by Rosbif, at 22:11 2 Nov 2016
@6 Legendary_Blouse

Which CL group are your team in? What's that you say? none of them.

Well done Leicester, keep the dream alive.
Comment posted by Jamie J, at 22:07 2 Nov 2016
We won the league, we deserve to be drawn against 'easier' opponents. Wether it's an easy group or not, we play against whoever is put infront of us. 10 points from 4 games in the top European competition is some good going regardless of who's in our group!

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Arsenal	4	3	1	0	12	3	9	10
2	PSG	4	3	1	0	9	3	6	10
3	Ludogorets	4	0	1	3	4	13	-9	1
4	FC Basel	4	0	1	3	2	8	-6	1

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Napoli	4	2	1	1	9	7	2	7
2	Benfica	4	2	1	1	6	5	1	7
3	Besiktas	4	1	3	0	6	5	1	6
4	Dynamo Kyiv	4	0	1	3	2	6	-4	1

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	4	3	0	1	14	4	10	9
2	Man City	4	2	1	1	10	8	2	7
3	B Mgladbach	4	1	1	2	4	7	-3	4
4	Celtic	4	0	2	2	4	13	-9	2

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Atl Madrid	4	4	0	0	5	1	4	12
2	Bayern Munich	4	3	0	1	11	3	8	9
3	PSV Eindhoven	4	0	1	3	4	9	-5	1
4	FC Rostov	4	0	1	3	3	10	-7	1

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Monaco	4	2	2	0	7	3	4	8
2	B Leverkusen	4	1	3	0	4	3	1	6
3	Tottenham	4	1	1	2	2	3	-1	4
4	CSKA Moscow	4	0	2	2	3	7	-4	2

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	B Dortmund	4	3	1	0	11	3	8	10
2	Real Madrid	4	2	2	0	12	7	5	8
3	Sporting	4	1	0	3	4	5	-1	3
4	Legia Warsaw	4	0	1	3	4	16	-12	1

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Leicester	4	3	1	0	5	0	5	10
2	FC Porto	4	2	1	1	4	3	1	7
3	FC Copenhagen	4	1	2	1	5	2	3	5
4	Club Bruges	4	0	0	4	1	10	-9	0

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Sevilla	4	3	1	0	6	0	6	10
2	Juventus	4	2	2	0	6	1	5	8
3	Lyon	4	1	1	2	4	3	1	4
4	Dinamo Zagreb	4	0	0	4	0	12	-12	0

Schmeichel saves the day - again

Vardy's barren run goes on

Man of the match - William Kvist (Copenhagen)

What they said

What next?

The stats you need to know

Line-ups

FC Copenhagen

Substitutes

Leicester

Substitutes

Match Stats

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