Tomas Soucek forced to celebrate West Ham win away from teammates - 'They don't trust us'

Tomas Soucek and Vladimir Coufal were forced to celebrate West Ham’s win over Lyon by themselves with bottles of water after being summoned for a drugs test.

The Czech duo both played the full 90 minutes in the Hammers’ hugely impressive 3-0 Europa League quarter-final win in France on Thursday night. West Ham booked the club’s first European semi-final in 46 years with a dominant performance to go through 4-1 on aggregate to face Eintracht Frankfurt, who shocked Barcelona at the Camp Nou.

West Ham weathered some early pressure and went 1-0 up when Craig Dawson headed in Pablo Fornals’ corner. It was 2-0 before half-time when Declan Rice found the bottom right-hand corner with a deflected effort and Jarrod Bowen added a third with a precise finish into the bottom corner.

It was a historic night for David Moyes’ side, who enjoyed their win with a party atmosphere in the dressing room. Pictures posted on social media showed long-serving club captain Mark Noble in tears, while Rice treated his team-mates to some dance moves after his brilliant performance.

But Soucek and Coufal were not with the rest of the team, having been selected by the authorities for a drugs test. Soucek posted a picture on Twitter showing the Czeck players were their shirts off and holding large bottles of water alongside the caption: “They don’t trust us again!!! Doping test after unique game!!!! Yeeeeeeees!! We are going trough.”

That was far from the only social media activity from West Ham following their win, with Lyon’s tweet after the first leg coming back to haunt them. “Are you really asking like there's a chance we don't go through?” the club’s official account wrote earlier this week. Rice could not resist the chance to respond,