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West Ham drew a blank in the Black Forest as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 meeting with Freiburg.<\/p>\n

Jarrod Bowen and Lucas Paqueta missed golden opportunities to give the Hammers a lead to take back to the London Stadium next week.<\/p>\n

But instead they will have to come from behind after they were hit by a late sucker punch from Freiburg substitute Michael Gregoritsch.<\/p>\n

They were also denied what looked a clear penalty for handball in stoppage time after the referee refused to change his decision despite checking the pitchside monitor.<\/p>\n

Nine months to the day since they lifted the Europa Conference League trophy in Prague, West Ham were back on their continental travels, and against familiar opponents.<\/p>\n

Freiburg were the visitors to east London for the final group game just 84 days ago when a 2-0 win secured top spot for the Hammers.<\/p>\n

West Ham also won 2-1 on their previous visit to south-west Germany in October, and travelled buoyed by back-to-back Premier League wins following a below-par start to the year.<\/p>\n

Boss David Moyes, keen on another strong run in Europe, named his strongest line-up with cup goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski replacing Alphonse Areola in the only change from Saturday\u2019s victory at Everton.<\/p>\n

West Ham were, as usual, happy to let their opponents have the ball but Freiburg gave them a scare when Roland Sallai\u2019s through-ball split their defence.<\/p>\n

Fortunately,\u00a0 Lucas Holer hit his shot into the ground and straight at Fabianski.<\/p>\n

Moments later Bowen made a horrible mess of West Ham\u2019s only chance of the first half.<\/p>\n

The forward, who has not scored in Europe since his famous last-minute winner against Fiorentina in the Czech capital, peeled away at the far post to meet a Mohammed Kudus cross but badly fluffed his volley.<\/p>\n

At the start of the second half Ghana winger Kudus cut inside Freiburg full-back only to curl his shot straight at keeper Noah Atubolu.<\/p>\n

Bowen then scampered down the right wing and crossed for Paqueta, who also scuffed a volley wide.<\/p>\n

A James Ward-Prowse corner should have been converted by Konstantinos Mavropanos but the centre-half\u2019s header grazed the far post.<\/p>\n

Paqueta then met another superb cross from Kudus but the finish, a simple header, again did not match the quality of the delivery, before Atubolu did well to tip Bowen\u2019s curler wide.<\/p>\n

Tomas Soucek also fired straight at Atubolu and Bowen just missed Aaron Cresswell\u2019s cross before Freiburg struck.<\/p>\n

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A sloppy pass from Edson Alvarez gifted them possession and when Sallai took aim from the edge of the area, his wayward shot was tapped in by Gregoritsch.<\/p>\n

Four minutes into stoppage time the ball struck the arm of Freiburg youngster Noah Weisshaupt in the area but after a long VAR check, referee Alejandro Hernandez checked the replay and stuck to his guns.LiveScore: Live Sport Updates<\/p>\n

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