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Moyes confident West Ham can overturn Sevilla tie: We're right in this

David Moyes thinks West Ham United have every chance of reaching the Europa League quarter-finals.

The Hammers went down 1-0 to Sevilla in their last-16 first leg clash on Thursday.

The return leg will be played at London Stadium next week, and Moyes is confident his team can get a positive result.

Moyes said after the game: "I feel that we can be proud of the work we put in.

"We came up against a really good European team, an experienced team and I thought we came really close tonight to getting a draw.

"We've just got to turn these games [into results] – on Saturday at Liverpool we could easily have turned that into a draw, tonight we could probably have had a draw.

"It's a lack of concentration a little bit for the goal, then there was a period for 15 or 20 minutes in the second half when they got their tails up and we had to weather it, which we did.

"We gave the ball away quite a bit at the start of the second half and it gave them an opportunity to grow into the game We're right in the tie.

"Seville have got a really good style – it's why they're second in La Liga, it's why they are ahead of so many good clubs, so you have to look at them and say you're up against a big opposition.

"But I thought we ran them really close tonight and I'm sure we'll run them close when we play them next week as well."

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