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Chelsea's Maurizio Sarri backs Europa League final venue change

CHELSEA manager Maurizio Sarri called for the Europa League final to be moved from Azerbaijan to accommodate fans and allow Arsenal’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan to play.

The decision to play next week’s match in Baku has been slammed not only by fans of the two London clubs but by the football community as a whole.

When news broke that each club was allocated a pitiful 6,000 tickets each, when Baku’s Olympic Stadium has a capacity of just under 70,000, questions were asked as to why this venue was chosen to host a European cup final.

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