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By Ewan Murray West Ham United will have to do something this Thursday that no other team has done this season and that’s beat Bayer Leverkusen. If the Irons want to secure a place in the Europa League semi-finals, they will have to overturn a 2-0 defeat from their quarter-final first leg clash with the German side last week. Late goals from Jonas Hofmann and Victor Boniface mean that David Moyes’ men now have a mountain to climb against Xabi Alonso’s unbeaten Leverkusen. West Ham may hope for a lapse in concentration from their visitors midweek after Leverkusen celebrated a first ever Bundesl…

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