They have now not seen a European quarter-very last within the east cease of London given that 1981, while 2d-division West Ham lost to eventual winners Dinamo Tbilisi within the ultimate eight of the Cup Winners Cup.
Their satisfactory years came before that, with Bobby Moore captaining the team to victory within the 1965 Cup Winners Cup and a facet featuring Frank Lampard senior accomplishing the final of the identical match in 1976.
On that occasion they lost to a wonderful Anderlecht team, but returning to any other European final is now the dream, almost half a century later.
After ousting document six-time winners Sevilla inside the ultimate spherical, a meeting with Lyon will maintain no fears for David Moyes's guys, who're sixth within the Premier League.
"It's very exciting. I've been right here a long time and seen the lows of relegation battles to being inside the region-very last of the Europa League," Aaron Cresswell advised the club's website.
"That's what we want as a club, we want development and as gamers we want to play in the ones competitions against the high-quality gamers within the international. It's wonderful."
Lyon have a brilliant recent pedigree in Europe, reaching the Champions League semi-finals in 2020 and the remaining 4 of the Europa League in 2017.
They knocked out Porto in the closing round, however it's miles hard to know what the actual face of Peter Bosz's aspect is simply now -- they lie in mid-table in Ligue 1.
Lyon are missing proficient midfielder Maxence Caqueret due to injury however whatever is viable for them if the likes of Lucas Paqueta and Houssem Aouar carry out to the fine in their capability.
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