Foxes’ Shakespeare waxing lyrical over Atletico challenge

doubt in their heads now that we are capable of turning them over and we are.

“I’ve always said when weplay toourfull abilitywe are capable of turning over most teams.

“We showed that against Hearts the other week.

“Nomatter how you look at it, when a team keeps getting beat by another team that’s always in their head.

“You go into the game thinking you’ve never won against them or you’ve never beat them at our stadium.

“But when it turns it’s all about confidence and it swings. However, you look at it they will have doubt in their mind, 100%.

“But we are not naive enough to think that they’re not good enough to turn us over as well.

“We will just keep doing what we’ve done against them in the past and if we play like we know we can we should get the result.”

A victory for Caley Jags would draw County firmly into the relegation mix, with Jim McIntyre’s men only four points ahead of their bottom-of-the-table rivals at present.

Davies does not feel the heat is onhis side, however, and the 32-year-old added: “I’d much rather be in our position than theirs.

“I think the pressure is onthembutweare not outwith it yet.

“I think two or three more wins, which we know we can get, we’ve just got to keep doing the right things, stick to the basics.

“This season has probably not gone the way we would want it to go but that’s football.

“Sometimes you try everythingandgive your all and it doesn’t go your way. We can never lose belief in what we are trying to do. We need to just keep trying to do it and it always will come good if we keep sticking at it.”

Atletico Madrid v Leicester City, Borussia Dortmund v Monaco, Bayern Munich v Real Madrid, Juventus v Barcelona (first legs on April 11 and 12; second legs on April 18 and 19). Kilmarnock attacker Kris Boyd has been among the goals for 16 years but remains driven to prove to himself he can still find the net.

The 33-year-old’s winner in the 2-1 Premiership victory against Ross County last week was his fourth in seven games for Killie and his 100th league strike for the Ayrshire club.

Boyd, in his third spell at Rugby Park, also scored 101 league goals as a Rangers player, with seven goals in 18 Scotland appearances.

Ahead of the visit of Partick Thistle today, where Kilmarnock will leapfrog the Jags into sixth place with a win, Boyd, who made his debut for Killie as a late substitute against Celtic in 2001, said: “It is proving to yourself that you can still do it when you are getting on in years.

“I have never been short of confidence if there are still chances being created, and that has been the story of my career.

“You get written off and there are days when you start to doubt yourself, like at the beginning of the season when I was not really playing.

“When you get yourself in the team and the opportunities are there and you are scoring goals, the buzz is still the same.

“Since I got myself back into the team the goals have come. It is a credit to my team-mates, with the chances they have created.

“As a forwardyouhave to put yourself into the position to score goals and I have done that, but I can’t take all the credit.

“It is probably not until you are finished that you look back to what you have done.

“Right now, it is about how I go and get 101 goals for Kilmarnock in the league and push on from there.

“Saturday gives us an opportunity to do that. It is a massive game, one we look forwardto, andwehopewe can get the three points.”

“You get written off and there are days when you doubt yourself”