Sevilla vs Leicester - as it happened: Jamie Vardy's vital away goal hands the Foxes hope in Europe

Re-live all the updates from the first-leg last-16 Champions League tie at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan

Mariano and Marc Albrighton vie for possession (Getty)

Leicester City will look to inject some life back into a season which is threatening to unravel when they return to Champions League action against Sevilla on Wednesday night.

Claudio Ranieri's side may be dicing with relegation from the Premier League, but Europe has been a much happier hunting ground for them this season.

Their opponents from Andalucia are a formidable side, however, and are currently Real Madrid's nearest challengers for the La Liga title.

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It’s a big game for…

Claudio Ranieri. With Leicester’s domestic campaign crumbling before the Italian’s eyes, the Champions League offers the Foxes with some much-needed respite. Ranieri’s men head into Wednesday’s match without a league win in 2017 and just one point separating them from the relation zone. Leicester are running out of ideas but a defiant run in Europe could be what the Foxes need to kick-start their floundering league form and save their manager from the chop.

Best stat…

The Foxes have yet to score a league goal in 2017. Their 1-0 defeat by Millwall at the weekend was the seventh time in 10 competitive games that Leicester have failed to find the back of the net.

Is Ranieri running out of time at Leicester? (Getty)

Player to watch…

Steven N’Zonzi. Since joining Sevilla from Stoke, the Frenchman has enjoyed a startling revival in form. As a defensive midielder, N’Zonzi has established himself at the heart of Jorge Sampaoli’s team, halting opposition attacks, breaking up play and distributing the ball intelligently. Construction, not destruction, is the nature of his game. As a player dubbed the “octopus”, for his long, tentacle-like legs, N’Zonzi could be key to keeping Foxes' counter-attacking style at bay.

Form guide…

Sevilla: WWDLWW

Leicester: LLDLLD

Steven N'Zonzi has enjoyed a remarkable revival at Sevilla (Getty)

Predicted line-ups…

Sevilla: Rico; Mariano, Rami, Lenglet, Escudero; N'Zonzi, Iborra; Vitolo, Nasri, Jovetić; Ben Yedder.

Leicester: Schmeichel; Simpson, Morgan, Huth, Fuchs; Drinkwater, Mahrez, Ndidi, Gray; Okazaki, Vardy.

Key information…

Kick-off: Wednesday 22 February, 7.45pm, Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.

TV: Coverage provided by BT Sport 2.

Odds…

Sevilla to win: 3/8

Leicester City to win: 8/1

Draw: 39/10

[22 February 2017 19:49 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

4 mins: Sevilla with the first shot on goal! Vitolo brings it forward with a positive run before passing to Sarabia. The midfielder cuts inside and needs to invitation to belt a shot on goal from thirty-odd yards, which whistles over Schmeichel's crossbar. An early warning sign: Sevilla mean business. 

[22 February 2017 19:50 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

5 mins: Anything you can do ... I can do, marginally worse. Perhaps inspired by Sarabia, Fuchs decides to crack a shot on goal from a similar distance. It goes high n' wide.

[22 February 2017 19:50 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

[22 February 2017 19:52 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

7 mins: Blimey Fuchs! The ball is played across the Leicester defence and, with Sarabia running in behind him, Fuchs gets down on his hands and knees and tries to nod it back to his goalkeeper.

But there's a breakdown in communication with Schmeichel caught unawares by the nod back, and he very nearly misses the ball. Fuchs gets a right old earful and looks a little sheepish as he trots back into position. 

[22 February 2017 19:54 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

9 mins: Leicester lining up in a very rigid 4-4-2, with Mahrez happy to sit flat alongside Vardy while Sevilla are shuffling it around their back-line. There's not much of a press going on. Musa has started out on the right wing and has just been shoved off the ball by Ferreira. 

[22 February 2017 19:55 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

10 mins: Musa hasn't made a great start to this match in fact, he overplays it and gets robbed: Sevilla sweep up the other end and Simpson is forced into conceding a corner. 

Nasri takes the set-piece, it flashes across the face of goal and Schmeichel deals with it. An exciting start! 

[22 February 2017 19:58 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

13 mins: Sevilla looking very comfortable in possession. Jovetic had a half-chance moments ago after Mariano had found some space down the right, but Simpson did very well to get a foot in. 

[22 February 2017 19:59 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

PENALTY - SEVILLA! Oh dear. Mariano gets into some space down the right again, plays in Correa and Morgan hacks him down in the box. Clear pen.

[22 February 2017 19:59 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

14 mins: Correa is going to take it...

[22 February 2017 20:00 · Vithushan Ehantharajah]

SAVED! Schmeichel the hero! It's a terrible penalty from the forward, tame and struck centre-left, and the keeper guesses right and holds onto the ball.