As Brendan Rodgers put it, Leicester City’s 1,600 supporters were up in the clouds, housed high in a caged corner of this arena, but in some ways they had the best vantage point to watch their team reach a first European semi-final after recording a stunning comeback victory.
The travelling fans had spent the afternoon mingling with the club’s top brass, the chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha among those taking in the atmosphere in Markt Eindhoven, one of the city’s main squares, and, once they shake off the hangovers from the after-party, they will begin to plot another adventure, with José Mourinho’s Roma waiting in the last four of the Europa Conference League.
