David Moyes admits that he felt West Ham were destined to beat Sevilla by half-time.
The Hammers pulled off a remarkable result on Thursday, coming from 1-0 down on aggregate against the Spanish giants to beat them 2-1, winning 2-0 on the night at the London Stadium. 
The Hammers won the game 1-0 in normal time thanks to a brilliant Tomas Soucek header and the second goal came from Andriy Yarmolenko in extra time.
Moyes, though, says that he knew his side were going to win as soon as the first-half finished, and told the players as much.
Speaking to the club’s official website, he said: “I said to them when they came in at half-time: ‘I think we’ve got this lads’.
“I thought they were going to give us a chance and it was whether when the chance came could we take it, because it had just started to look like we weren’t going to score one of them.
“So it was great that Yarma came up with the winning goal.”
Moyes was also delighted with the performance in the first 20 minutes, insisting that it was as good as the side have played throughout what could be a sensational season.
Of course, the Irons are continuing to push for European qualification through a league finish, but winning this competition would also confirm qualification to the Champions League.
He added: “We set the tone early – I thought the opening 20 minutes was as good as we’ve played.
“That period came without any end product or chances, but then Mick had a really good chance and there were moments when we didn’t do the final moment well, and I’ve been calling out for better quality – then we stood up a ball to the back post and Tomáš came and heads one in, which was a brilliant goal.
“That got our foot in the door and said it was game on. I thought they came back into it in the second half of the first half and we had to say to ourselves, ‘Look we’re in a really good position here, we can try to go on and get something’.
“We were really close to winning it in normal time as well.”