Erling Haaland scored his first brace since September as the Premier League champions beat the Hammers 4-1 to claim their second victory in a row.

West Ham right-back Vladimir Coufal deflected Savinho's cross in for City's opener and the Brazilian assisted Haaland for his 15th league goal of the campaign to give Guardiola's side a 2-0 lead at half-time.

West Ham were wasteful in the first half and were made to pay when goals in the 55th (Haaland, assisted by Savinho again) and 58th minute (Phil Foden) put the game out of sight.

Niclas Fullkrug did grab a consolation goal for the Hammers as City failed to keep only a third home clean sheet in the Premier League this season.

City - who are sixth in the Premier League, two points behind fourth-place Chelsea - appear to have come out of their worst run under Guardiola but have some very tricky fixtures coming up.

"We won a game, still we are not at our best but winning will help us," the Spaniard said. "We had good moments but I've been here eight years and we have seen the team playing and it is not at our standards.

Erling Haaland scored his first brace since September as the Premier League champions beat the Hammers 4-1 to claim their second victory in a row.

West Ham right-back Vladimir Coufal deflected Savinho's cross in for City's opener and the Brazilian assisted Haaland for his 15th league goal of the campaign to give Guardiola's side a 2-0 lead at half-time.

West Ham were wasteful in the first half and were made to pay when goals in the 55th (Haaland, assisted by Savinho again) and 58th minute (Phil Foden) put the game out of sight.

Niclas Fullkrug did grab a consolation goal for the Hammers as City failed to keep only a third home clean sheet in the Premier League this season.

City - who are sixth in the Premier League, two points behind fourth-place Chelsea - appear to have come out of their worst run under Guardiola but have some very tricky fixtures coming up.

"We won a game, still we are not at our best but winning will help us," the Spaniard said. "We had good moments but I've been here eight years and we have seen the team playing and it is not at our standards.

West Ham midfielder Tomas Soucek said Jarrod Bowen was a big miss as his side missed chances in the first half.

"We are upset because we had a good chance to take the points from Manchester City," he said. "Especially in the first half, I had a good chance and we had a few others and then we conceded a deflected goal.

"We tried to compete and we did but the result is not good.

"We have suffered a few big defeats. We have one way which we build in training, which we wanted to show. In many ways we did but we have to try not to concede goals.

"Jarrod is a big miss for us. This season he has been great but this is football and we need to step up for him now.

"We showed more with the ball today. We had chances but we need to concentrate on getting points."