Lyon fans riot and wreck own stadium after West Ham batter them in Europa League

Furious Lyon supporters threw one heck of a collective hissy-fit after being unceremoniously dumped out of the Europa League by West Ham United on Thursday night.

Goals from Craig Dawson, Declan Rice and Jarrod Bowen sealed an unforgettable 3-0 victory for David Moyes' side on what turned out to be one of the most momentous evenings in West Ham's recent history.

Things got ugly after the full-time whistle though as flares were set off in the home end and barricades went flying as dozens of angry French fans clashed with stewards – and eventually police – as they battled their way towards the pitch inside Lyon's Groupama Stadium.

Lyon, who were narrow favourites to progress to the semi-finals, found themselves 2-0 at half-time following a quickfire double from the visitors just before the interval, and boos rang out across the ground as the players headed back to the dressing rooms.

The Hammers added a third shortly after the restart and the atmosphere began to turn a little toxic. TalkSPORT's Ian Abrahams described the scenes at full-time.

"Well the reaction from the West Ham fans is obviously overjoyed, but not the Lyon fans, we have a bit of a problem now emerging at both ends behind the goals.

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"Behind one goal there was basically barriers separating the fans from the pitch and those barriers have now been pushed up against the police," he added.

"One of the barriers have been pushed over and two flares have been lit and now the other end to replicate that, again the fans have jumped over the initial hoardings and are now pushing against the metal barriers to try and get to the police.

"The Lyon fans are really not happy about the situation tonight. A couple of fans are falling over amongst the hoardings as they try to get on the pitch."

West Ham now face Eintracht Frankfurt – having missed out on a dream clash with Barcelona – in the semis for a place in the final against the winner of RB Leipzig and Rangers.

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