LONDON: Newly crowned Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen reached the Europa League semi-finals but almost lost their season-long unbeaten record as they struck late to draw 1-1 away at West Ham United for a 3-1 aggregate victory on Thursday (Apr 18).
West Ham United's Tomas Soucek in action during the match with Bayer Leverkusen . LONDON: Newly crowned Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen reached the Europa League semi-finals but almost lost their season-long unbeaten record as they struck late to draw 1-1 away at West Ham United for a 3-1 aggregate victory on Thursday .
The final whistle sparked loud celebrations from the travelling Leverkusen fans who can now look forward to a semi-final against AS Roma who they lost to at that stage last season. Leverkusen are now unbeaten in 44 matches in all competitions this season and remain on course for a treble. Leverkusen looked like they were suffering a post-title hangover as West Ham knocked them out of their stride.
The keeper then made a superb reflex save to keep out Bowen's volley that had looked like being a certain goal - West Ham manager David Moyes falling to the turf in disbelief."We could have been two or three up at one point," Moyes told reporters."I couldn't fault the players for their effort and if we were going to go out of Europe I wanted to go out playing like that.
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