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It's a scene to make Manchester United long for those Champions League nights.
Ugly grey blocks of flats tower over the tiny Zimbru Stadium in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital chosen to host Thursday evening's Europa League Group E tie because FC Sheriff's home ground in the unrecognised state of Transnistria was deemed too dangerous by UEFA due to the war in neighbouring Ukraine.
The venue where a sell-out crowd of 8,800 fans will watch the game may have been built in 2006, but there is an unmistakeable air of old school Soviet Bloc.
Erik ten Hag's Man United side are set to face Sheriff in the Europa League on Thursday
Even though United have toured some far-flung outposts of Europe in recent years, the club's first ever trip to Moldova will take some beating.
No wonder goalkeeper David de Gea had the Champions League on his mind when he and manager Erik ten Hag attended a press conference in front of a handful of
