West Ham overcame a sleep start to secure an easy win over Steve Bruce's woeful Hull City side and keep their European ambitions alive.
To say the first half at Upton Park was poor is an understatement. The home side looked half asleep as their sloppy play should have gone punished by the visitors - but Hull were so lacking in quality they failed to take advantage, with Ahmed Elmohamady spurning their only real opportunity when he put the ball wide with the goal at his mercy in the sixth minute.
After that dismal first-half it only took the Hammers four minutes to open the scoring after the break.
An extended period of possession for the home side culminated in a weak long range effort from Enner Valencia, that Tigers 'keeper Allan McGregor spilled into the path of Andy Carroll who slotted home the rebound with relative ease and Big Sam's men were 1-0 up.
Upton Park is rapidly turning into a bogey ground for McGregor, after his woeful error today followed his red card in last season's fixture.
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