West Ham 0-5 Manchester City: Aguero & Silva score as Guardiola's men stroll to next round

West Ham 0-5 Manchester City: Aguero & Silva score as Guardiola's men stroll to next round

Manchester City booked their ticket for the fourth round of the FA Cup, crushing West Ham 5-0 to serve the Hammers their heaviest defeat at London Stadium to date.

Defeat to Liverpool on New Year's Eve and a spiky reaction to a subsequent win over Burnley had turned the spotlight on Pep Guardiola before the trip to the capital, but that reverse at Anfield now stands as the lone blot in a run of five wins in six games.

West Ham had lost the last Cup game at their previous home Upton Park 2-1 to Manchester United and the Red Devils' local rivals made sure that the Hammers began life in the competition stickily at their new home.

Slaven Bilic's outfit were never in the contest here and they trailed by three goals at half-time, with captain Mark Noble and talisman Dimitri Payet watching on from the bench.

Yaya Toure opened the scoring when he converted a penalty and City were cruising when Havard Nordveidt's own goal and a David Silva strike arrived within two minutes of each other.