Diego Godin believes Jamie Vardy would make Atletico Madrid's starting XI
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Atletico Madrid defender Diego Godin has been singing Jamie Vardy's praises as the two teams prepare for their Champions League quarter-final second leg.
The La Liga side visit the King Power stadium tonight with a 1-0 lead from the first leg and Godin has earmarked the Leicester striker as the Foxes' chief threat.
"He is a great player," Godin told the Daily Mail .
"He fights and competes in every game and never gives a single ball up for lost. A striker like that is fundamental for a team that plays the way Leicester do. They wouldn't be the Leicester we know without him."
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The Uruguayan also believes that Vardy would be good enough to make it in Diego Simeone's side.
"Of course he would," said Godin. "I think he would fit in at the vast majority of teams in the world. Who wouldn't want a striker who kills himself for the team and then gives you so many attacking solutions?"
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The 31-year-old admitted that he was taken in by Leicester's fairytale story last year, when Claudio Ranieri's unfancied team who had been tipped for relegation upset to odds and landed the Premier League title.
"It's wonderful for football," Godin continued. "I was pleased; really delighted to see a modest team that no one expects to win the Premier League do that and I think the vast majority of football people felt the same way.
"Everybody had fallen in love with Leicester. How could you not take them to heart. It's good that things like this can still happen in football."