After waves of early pressure from Brian Barry-Murphy‘s charges, a goal was in our future.
Carlos Borges made a pacey, direct run into the box, before he played it to Kian Breckin who placed the ball into the goal with a neat finish.
It took something spectacular to break the Hammers defence for a second time.
Oscar Bobb drifted into the box before he curled in a sensational, finessed shot which beat the outstretched Krisztian Hegyi to double the advantage.
West Ham claimed a penalty from a Shea Charles body challenge - and 30 seconds later, Borges found space on the left to carry the ball into the box and his shot-come-cross made its way home after Freddie Potts slid the ball into the back of the net.
Spaces were there when City counterattacked, as Breckin raced away into the box, cut inside his defender, and fired in his second to finish off a swift attacking move.
We were then awarded a penalty, after Luizao’s arm deflected a cross in the box, and Alex Robertson smashed home from the spot to make it the fifth goal of the evening.
The hosts were to deny the City defence a clean sheet deep into second half stoppage time, as Divin Mubama headed home.
Despite that late frustration, we stretched our beaten run to nine games and increased the gap at the top of the league to five points.
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