Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers believes his side proved they can compete with the best in the Europa League despite blowing a 2-0 lead to draw with Napoli.
Victor Osimhen's second-half double earned the Italians a 2-2 draw to deny the Foxes victory in their opening Group C game.
The striker levelled with three minutes left having pulled a goal back after Ayoze Perez and Harvey Barnes gave Leicester the advantage.
Wilfred Ndidi was also sent off in injury time for a second yellow card to add to the Foxes' woes.
"It was a really good measure for us," Rodgers said. "Napoli are arguably the favourites for the competition but we were very competitive.
"We are disappointed to lose the goals but there is still a lot for us to be happy about and lots for us to analyse where we can do better.
"It was a really exciting game for the neutral. I was really pleased with the team in terms of the mentality, the goals and the resilience for a lot of the game.
"I didn't think the referee was very good all night and Wilf was unfortunate. He picked up the booking early on and was fighting to get across to stop the attacker getting away. It was a little bit harsh."
Tension flared between supporters at the final whistle with missiles thrown between the home and away fans.
Police and stewards had to stop scuffles breaking out as fans tried to break through to each other.
With just the group winners going through automatically it could be two crucial points dropped for Leicester and increases the pressure for the trip to play Legia Warsaw, who won at Spartak Moscow, in two weeks.
Perez gave the Foxes the lead after nine minutes when he volleyed in Barnes's deep cross, but the hosts lived dangerously as Napoli created and wasted chances.
Osimhen fired over, Piotr Zielinski was denied by Kasper Schmeichel and Timothy Castagne, Lorenzo Insigne shot wide, and Schmeichel also saved Hirving Lozano's header.
The Foxes lost Jonny Evans to his foot problem at half-time and Patson Daka had a goal disallowed by a tight VAR offside call
But Barnes doubled their lead when he fired into the corner after being picked out by Kelechi Iheanacho.
Osimhen sparked Napoli's comeback after 69 minutes when he lifted over Schmeichel after a slick move and completed it when he headed in from eight metres with three minutes left.
Ndidi was then dismissed in stoppage time for hauling back Adam Ounas, earning a second yellow card.
"They played a great match," Napoli boss Luciano Spalletti said of his team. "They challenged the opposition with a strong mentality and there were some very important steps forward made.
"What probably made the difference after 2-0 was the continuous strength, conviction and self-belief to be able to get over being 2-0 down. The substitutes made a really important contribution.
"You often don't realise how important the impact players are. They truly gave that strength and freshness.
"You have to look deep and far to find any fault. They did what they had to do when others teams might have felt disheartened or weak."
Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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