Yarmolenko strikes in extra time to sink Sevilla and send West Ham through

This will go down as one of the greatest wins in West Ham’s history. It was an occasion to rival the night they said farewell to Upton Park and it could not have been more fitting that the decisive touch came from Andriy Yarmolenko, who was the calmest person in the stadium when the ball fell to him in front of goal with eight minutes of extra time left.

They were all off the bench when Yarmolenko put the rebound away after Sevilla’s goalkeeper, Bono, pushed Pablo Fornals’s shot into his path. The noise, the sheer emotion, took the breath away. This crowd had seen Yarmolenko mark his return from compassionate leave with a goalscoring cameo against Aston Villa last weekend and now they had witnessed the Ukrainian provide another moment of incredible drama, sending West Ham through to the last eight of the Europa League by overturning a first-leg deficit to beat Sevilla.

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West Ham had not experienced anything as big as this since moving to Stratford in 2016. It was a night that called for perfection from all of Moyes’s players and it helped that the home fans knew they had a part to play, the ground a wall of noise as the game began and the hosts pushed forward in search of the goal that would draw them level on aggregate.

Yet Sevilla, streetwise and organised, had seen it all before. Nobody can match their expertise in this competition and they were not surprised by West Ham’s early robustness. Jules Koundé and Nemanja Gudelj were ready to battle with Michail Antonio, who was available to start after shaking off a groin problem, and West Ham struggled to create much at first. Their threat was limited to set-pieces and their best moment