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Ollie Watkins netted again to help Aston Villa in to the Conference League last eight following a 4-0 victory over Ajax Amsterdam on Thursday. The England striker, named in the latest Three Lions squad for friendlies later this month, headed in a first-half corner for his third of the competition and 22nd of the season. Leon Bailey extended Villa’s lead in the second period before Ajax’s Sivert Mannsverk was dismissed. John Duran and Moussa Diaby then added the gloss as the 1982 European champions eliminated the Dutch giants. Fiorentina nudged into the quarter-finals of Europe’s third-tier com…

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