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Europa straight knockout begin today

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LASK's Austrian defender Philipp Wiesinger (left) vies with Manchester United's Nigerian striker Odion Ighalo during the UEFA Europa League last 16-second leg match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, on August 5. [AFP]

Manchester United, Inter Milan and Sevilla headline a quintet of former champions travelling to Germany for a remodelled eight-team straight knockout tournament that will crown the winner of a Europa League campaign heavily disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

All games from the quarter-finals onwards in this season’s competition will be played behind closed doors as one-off ties across four venues — Cologne, Duisburg, Dusseldorf and Gelsenkirchen — following a five-month interruption.

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