West Ham vs Lyon LIVE: Europa League result and final score as Ndombele cancels out Bowen’s opener

West Ham XI: Areola, Fredericks, Dawson, Zouma, Cresswell, Soucek, Rice , Fornals, Bowen, Antonio, Benrahma

Lyon XI: Lopes, Gusto, Boateng, Lukeba, Emerson, Aouar, Ndombele, Mendes, Faivre, Lucas Paqueta, Dembele

Lyon have won four of their previous 10 trips to England with one draw and five defeats. They faced Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest in the 1990s as well as both Manchester clubs (Man Utd and Man City), both Merseryside clubs (Liverpool and Everton) and both North London clubs (Arsenal and Tottenham).

David Moyes says that Lyon’s wealth of experience in European competition will stand them in good stead for the quarter-final and he will be looking to the players who have experienced similar matches at other clubs to lead the way.

"Having that experience over the years can make a big difference," admitted Moyes, "We don’t really have that, but the Czech boys [Vladimir Coufal and Tomas Soucek] have played for Slavia in the Champions League - I’m hoping they can bring that to the table and help us."

Jarrod Bowen made his return for West Ham on Saturday after a month out and so could start tonight. Ben Johnson has also been training well and will probably replace Ryan Fredericks at right-back with Vladimir Coufal starting on the bench.

Full team news should be out shortly.

Lyon coach, Peter Bosz, spoke about his opponents this evening and says that despite West Ham’s good form this season his team are coming to London to win tonight’s clash. He said:

“West Ham are having a very good season with positive results at home. They are doing things together.

“We have faced some good teams in our league too, and we had a good result in Porto. We are here to win this game.”

Lyon are struggling domestically. A 3-2 victory against Angers on Sunday was much needed for Peter Bosz’s men who sit ninth in Ligue 1, their worst placing at this stage of a top-flight campaign since the mid-90s.

More importantly they are eight points off the top three and potential Uefa Champions League qualification, and a further three adrift of second place and a guaranteed spot in European club football’s most lucrative group stage.

The Europa League may prove to be their best route into Europe’s biggest competition next season and as such they would need to win the trophy.

With West Ham also a way of the European qualifying spots in the Premier League winning this competition will be high on their priority list.

This should be a very intriguing encounter.

Lyon are one of four unbeaten group winners in this year’s Europa League and no team boasted more than the 16 goals they scored in a section also including Rangers, Sparta Prague and Brondby.

They only missed out on a 100% winning record with the matchday six draw at home to Rangers, a game that kicked off with the French club’s round of 16 berth already secure.

Porto were then beaten 2-1 on aggregate in the first knockout stage to ensure Lyon reached the last eight.

West Ham have never faced Lyon in competitive football and have only played one team from France in their history.

They played Metz in a two-legged Intertoto Cup tie in 1999. The Hammers lost the home leg 1-0, but prevailed 3-1 in the return to reach the Uefa Cup proper.

Ready to go at the London Stadium.

West Ham have not played in a European quarter-final since 1980-81 and Moyes was quick to discount any notions that his side are coming into the quarter-final as the favourites against Lyon, despite beating record six-time winners Sevilla in the last 16.

"I find that quite difficult [to believe] considering we’re relative newcomers and Lyon have had loads of experience - most people would consider them a Champions League team," he added.

"We’re the new boys on the block [in Europe]. Lyon are a side who we’ve got big respect for - it’s not that long ago they were really challenging the top teams."