Storybook Leicester ready for hardened Atletico

FILE PHOTO: Britain Football Soccer - West Ham United v Leicester City - Premier League - London Stadium - 18/3/17. Leicester City manager Craig Shakespeare gestures. Reuters/Peter Nicholls/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) - Leicester City have shown a remarkable ability to defy the odds but face their sternest test yet in the Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid, the team they have replaced as European football's most fashionable underdogs.

Before Leicester enchanted the sporting world last year with their miraculous Premier League title win, Atletico had worked similar wonders in 2014 by breaking the strangehold of Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga.