Moyes 'baffled' after pitch invader ruins West Ham attack during Lyon draw

David Moyes criticised the supporter who ran onto the pitch and ruined a promising West Ham attack during their 1-1 Europa League draw with Lyon.

A historic match for the Hammers ended sourly after a pitch invader – the second of the game – jumped out of the home end with 10-man West Ham mounting a rare attack.

"I was baffled," said the West Ham boss. "This is a really good football club doing so many good things.

"But those things tonight didn't help; we were on a counter-attack with an opportunity to score."

The Hammers, playing in the quarter-finals of a major European competition for the first time in 41 years, were up against it after Aaron Cresswell was controversially dismissed for a foul on Moussa Dembele before half-time.

Pitch invader when West Ham are on the attack... ban him for life and then some pic.twitter.com/BZ50CrgTrM

The decision could have left West Ham with a mountain to climb ahead of the second leg in the French city overlooked by the Alps next week.

But Jarrod Bowen's second goal in as many matches, after a month out injured, put the 10-men 1-0 up before Tottenham loanee Tanguy Ndombele hauled Lyon level.

Nevertheless, a draw keeps West Ham's dream of a place in the semi-finals, against Barcelona or Eintracht Frankfurt, well and truly alive.

It promises to be a spicy return leg in the culinary capital of France after tempers occasionally boiled over. At the same time, Dembele's Cristiano Ronaldo-style wink after Cresswell's red card will not have gone unnoticed among the Hammers ranks.

German referee Felix Zwayer booked Moyes for protesting about the red card at half-time but refused to be drawn on the official or the decision.

He added: "The only thing I'm going to say is there was a tackle on Bowen, which