LATERKUSEN SINK MOYES

Double blow leaves Hammers on brink

- MIKE WALTERS

B LEVERKUSEN                              2 

WEST HAM                                       0

IN THE city famous for its giant aspirin factory, Victor Boniface gave David Moyes his biggest headache in Europe with West Ham.

And it will take more than a couple of plink-plink-fizz to make this one go away in London next Thursday.

For 83 minutes, it looked as if the Hammers would become only the sixth team to stop Bayer Leverkusen winning all season.

But then substitute Jonas Hofmann smuggled his shot from 18 yards through a crowded box and beyond unsighted keeper Lukasz Fabianksi, who had been in inspired form a week before his 39th birthday.

And in stoppage time another sub, Victor Boniface, headed Hofmann's cross into the bottom corner, extending Leverkusen's remarkable run to 42 games unbeaten this season.