complete another improbable comeback against
Juventus and continue Spanish dominance of the
Champions League.
Atleti battled to a 1-1 draw against Premier League
champions Leicester City on Tuesday, completing a
2-1 aggregate victory after Saul Niguez's away
goal stacked the odds heavily in their favour at the
King Power Stadium.
Diego Simeone's side are through to the semi-
finals for the third time in four seasons alongside
city rivals Real Madrid, who beat them after extra-
time and penalties respectively in the 2014 and
2016 finals and triumphed in a 2015 quarter-final.
When asked about a desire for revenge over
Madrid, Gabi refused to be drawn, but he offered a
message of support to Barca, who must overturn a
3-0 deficit from a torrid first-leg in Turin having
been forced to come from 4-0 behind against Paris
Saint-Germain in the previous round.
"I just want to be in the final. Any rival will be so
complicated," Gabi told reporters.
"I want Barcelona to go through and it would be
very good with three Spanish teams in semi-finals.
But even if they don't go through, any team will be
complicated."
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— Atlético de Madrid (@atletienglish)
April 18, 2017
Barcelona beat Juventus in the 2015 final in
between the all-Madrid tussles and Gabi believed
his team's exploits on those runs stood them in
good stead as Leicester piled on pressure following
Jamie Vardy's 61st-minute equaliser.
"We have experience enough in this kind of
games," he said. "We knew Leicester were not
going to give up.
"I would like to congratulate them for the
Champions League they have done, because it is
something to admire.
"It is true that we could have secured the game on
the counter-attack and we didn't. The teams that
don't suffer in Champions League don't deserve to
be here."
Gabi added: "I hope you guys [the media] value
this. I told my team-mates in the dressing-room
that they should value this.
"It may seem standard or easy what we do but it is
not. I feel proud of the team and we have to keep
working like we do in order to get to the final."
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