Manchester City have one foot in final after destruction of woeful West Ham.

Manchester City's Alvaro Negredo completes his hat trick goal by scoring his side's fourth goal against West Ham.

The only surprise, perhaps, was that Manchester City restricted themselves to six. The tie was so one-sided, the opposition so utterly abject, that there were moments when it was easy to imagine City would go even better than the seven they rattled past Norwich earlier in the season, never mind the six that Arsenal and Tottenham sieved inside this stadium. The fifth goal went in with more than a third of the game still to go and, after that, the goal machine that is Manuel Pellegrini's team must have been feeling charitable to add only one more.

Their latest haul, incorporating a stylish hat-trick from Alvaro Negredo, brings their tally to 59 goals in 15 home matches this season, keeping up the remarkable average of almost four every game.