World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst praised West Ham for their 'fantastic performance' after they triumphed over Lyon in the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday.
The Premier League side, drawing 1-1 from the first leg at the London Stadium last week, deservedly triumphed 3-0 in Lyon to all but silence the raucous home crowd.
The Hammers reached their first European semi-final for 46 years with the thrashing at the Groupama Stadium.
World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst praised West Ham for their 'fantastic performance' in their Europa League quarter-final triumph over Lyon
They will now face the same opponents they faced in 1976, when they last reached the final four of a European competition, after Eintracht Frankfurt stunned Barcelona at the Nou Camp to progress.