City batter West Ham 9-0 on aggregate

West Ham 0 Manchester City 3

City win 9-0 on aggregate

Manchester City subjected West Ham to another cruel beating as Manuel Pellegrini’s men cruised into the Capital One Cup final with a 9-0 aggregate victory.

City hammered West Ham 6-0 in the first leg of the semi-final two weeks ago and no mercy was spared again on Tuesday night at Upton Park.

Not for the first time this season it was City’s dynamic duo of Sergio Aguero and Alvaro Negredo who did the damage in this 3-0 win.

Negredo opened the scoring after two minutes with a close-range header and he rounded off the win in the second half after Aguero had made it 2-0.

Negredo and Aguero have now scored an incredible 45 goals between them for City this term.

They will now be hoping that Manchester United overturn their first-leg deficit against Sunderland to set up a mouthwatering derby final on March 2.

West Ham, who were booed off the pitch, were always going to be up against it after the manner of their first-leg defeat, but the main thing that will worry manager Sam Allardyce was his team’s lack of fight on what was a depressing night for Hammers fans inside a less than half-full Upton Park.

Allardyce will also be concerned by the fact that Mohamed Diame and Joe Cole suffered injuries.