West Ham United powered into their first main European semi-final since 1976 with an emphatic 3-0 win at Olympique Lyonnais on Thursday to safe a 4-1 mixture victory within the Europa League quarter-final.    The London aspect, who gained the Cup Winners' Cup in 1965, overpowered their French opponents and targets by Craig Dawson, Declan Rice and Jarrod Bowen arrange a repeat of their 1976 semi-final in opposition to Eintracht Frankfurt, who knocked out Barcelona.    

After a 1-1 draw at house, West Ham soaked up early stress on the Groupama Stadium earlier than hitting Lyon in ruthless trend to steer 2-0 at halftime.

Bowen added the third objective quickly after the interval and there was no manner again for Lyon.

"We’ve obtained a very good group of lads, I’m actually fortunate," West Ham supervisor David Moyes mentioned.

"The journey in two years, we had been speaking about relegation, and now we’re speaking about attending to the semi-final of a European event. It’s fabulous. Tonight was an enormous second for us, a very, actually good outcome."

The hosts made a daring begin, with Karl Toko Ekambi's shot from inside the realm crashing onto Alphonse Areola's put up after 5 minutes.

West Ham, nevertheless, had been additionally harmful and Pablo Fornals threatened with a half volley that was properly blocked by Julian Pollersbeck.

Lyon continued to pile the stress however the London aspect stored their composure and opened the scoring seven minutes from the break.Dawson headed house on the close to put up from Fornals's nook and so they doubled the benefit six minutes later, benefiting from Lyon's shaky defending.

Rice collected a clearance from the Lyon defence simply exterior the realm and beat Pollersbeck with a low shot to offer Moyes's group a cushty halftime lead.

Lyon's hopes had been all however over three minutes into the second half after supervisor Peter Bosz had despatched on Tete and Lucas Paqueta to spice up his attacking line.

Fornals despatched a diagonal move to Bowen, who raced down the center and fired a searing shot previous Pollersbeck.

Moussa Dembele and Tete had possibilities for Lyon however lacked precision and West Ham comfy closed out the win, solely Lyon's third house defeat within the competitors in 24 video games.

A modest tenth within the Ligue 1 standings, Lyon have little left to play for this season and their followers vented their frustration as a safety cordon was deployed round their bench within the closing phases of the sport.

"We performed properly in London and we began properly right this moment with some nice possibilities. However that is European soccer. Whenever you lose, you are out," Bosz mentioned.

"I perceive the followers' frustration however you do not destroy your stadium, you may't do this"