Frankfurt 1-0 West Ham(agg 3-1): 10-men Hammers dumped out of Europa League

Eintracht Frankfurt ended West Ham's dream of lifting the Europa League after beating the 10-men Hammers 1-0 on the night - 3-1 on aggregate - to set up a final with Rangers.

Match Report

West Ham were bidding to make their first European final in 47 years but having lost the first leg 2-1, their task became much more difficult when Aaron Cresswell was sent off in the 19th-minute in Frankfurt.

Jens Petter Hauge Hauge got in behind and in a desperate bid to rescue his side, Cresswell pulled him back, denying him a clear-cut opportunity. The referee initially produced a yellow card but overturned the decision, upgrading it to red after reviewing the incident on the pitch side monitor.

Frankfurt immediately made their numerical advantage count, the run of the excellent Ansgar Knauff exposing the space left by Cresswell's absence and his cross was finished by Rafael Santos Borre's first-time shot - their only effort on target in the first half.

West Ham, to their credit, tried to take the game to their opponents, with David Moyes throwing men forward in desperate search of a way back into the tie, but they lacked the inspiration and craft to really trouble the hosts.

It was a night where nothing went right for West Ham and as tempers rose their pain was compounded when manager Moyes was sent off for an outburst on the side-lines before Tomas Soucek somehow missed from a few yards out with a headed chance he would normally have buried.

The home supporters flooded onto the pitch in their thousands at the sound of the final whistle and the German side can now look forward to their first appearance in a European final in over four decades.

Line-ups

Frankfurt XI: Rode, Trapp, Hinteregger, Kostic, Sow, Borré, Kamada, Jens Petter Hauge, N'Dicka, Tuta, A. Knauff

Subs: Hasebe, J. Grahl, Chandler, Goncalo, Da Costa, A. Toure, C. Lenz, A. Hrustic, K. Jakić, S. Lammers, Barkok, R. Ache

West Ham XI: Cresswell, Antonio, Dawson, Areola, Lanzini, V. Coufal, Zouma, Soucek, Bowen, Rice, Fornals

Subs: Fabianski, Randolph, Noble, Yarmolenko, Masuaku, Fredericks, S. Benrahma, Vlasic, Diop, Ben Johnson, A. Král, Aji Alese