Bayern Munich's David Alaba Wary of the Threat Leicester City Could Possess in the Champions League

Published on: 24 August 2016

"?Bayern Munich defender David Alaba has revealed why he is wary of potentially having to face Leicester City in the Champions League and has was warned the Premier League champions that they now have a lot of enemies.


Bayern could meet Leicester in the Champions League knockout round this season after the Foxes qualified for Europe's elite competition by winning the Premier League, and Alaba has spoken about how Austria team-mate Christian Fuchs told him in person about his club's title triumph prior to Euro 2016.

"It was amazing," Alaba told"? MailOnline when talking about Leicester's road to Premier League glory. "Christian did an amazing job last season. What stories did he tell me? The first thing he said was there was an unbelievable party "? I saw them celebrating on TV! "? they wrote a new page in history.

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"They have a great team with great players.


"Leicester have a great spirit and they will do their thing again. They have made enemies of a lot of teams now, by that I mean everyone knows what they are capable of and what they can do. Everyone knows they need to be respected.

"They are dangerous. You cannot win a title if you are not a good team. You can win a final with luck but what they did over a season was not lucky. 


"Nobody expected this story to happen, nobody thought it was possible to do in the Premier League. They did something amazing for football.


"Can we play against them in the Champions League? Why not? It would be nice, for sure."


Leicester will be in Pot 1 ahead of the Champions League draw later today alongside Bayern and the other domestic league champions participating.

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