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Claudio Ranieri: 'Leicester City can create more history in Champions League'

A defiant Claudio Ranieri backs Leicester City to show once again that the "impossible is possible" by going all the way in this season's Champions League.

Claudio Ranieri has admitted that Leicester City will have to 'achieve the impossible' for a second time if they are to go all the way in this season's Champions League.

The Foxes stunned the footballing world last season by winning the Premier League as 5,000-1 outsiders and therefore earning themselves an automatic spot in Europe's top club competition.

Ahead of City's latest adventure, which begins away at Club Brugge on Wednesday evening, Ranieri has backed his side to once again prove the critics wrong by making some more history on the big stage.

"It's impossible [to win it] but Leicester showed the impossible is possible," he told reporters. "I think we wrote a fantastic fairy tale. Nobody believed, not even us. I think it's impossible because there are so many big teams involved in this competition.

"To win the Champions League we have to write another fairy tale, the second story. Why not? I think our fairy tale means not only sport but life. If you believe some good things can happen, it can happen. If you don't believe it you cannot.

"The target now is to try and go to the knockouts, if it is possible. If not, we need to achieve third position because we need to make experience. We would like to write some new history for Leicester."

Leicester, who have made a slow start to their title defence by winning just one of their opening four games, also face Porto and Copenhagen in the group stage of the competition.

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