Hammers smash six to wreck rotten Wrexham's night
West Ham United was too hot to handle for Wrexham, claiming a resounding 6-0 win at London Stadium to move to the top of the EFL Championship.
It was a miserable night for the Welsh side, which has just one win from its seven games so far this season and it didn't put a shot on target from five attempts here.
The Hammers, meanwhile, were creating scoring opportunities for fun, and after Jarrod Bowen was denied early by a sensational save from Anthony Patterson, who pushed the ball on to the crossbar in the 12th minute, the West Ham captain opened the scoring just before the half-hour mark with a simple tap-in.
Joel Piroe, also guilty of missing an earlier sitter, made amends himself with a sound strike into the back of the net on 37 minutes and half-time couldn't come quick enough for Wrexham, which was struggling to keep pace with the hosts.
The start of the second half couldn't have been worse for Phil Parkinson's visitors, Konstantinos Mavropanos nodding Jarrod Bowen's corner delivery under the legs of Patterson to make it 3-0 three minutes after the restart.
Valentin Castellanos put home arguably the pick of the bunch to make it four without reply, finishing a move from the other end of the field with a pinpoint pass into the bottom right corner of Patterson's goal, before Mohamadou Kante snuck in behind the Wrexham defence to collect a ball over the top neatly and blast home another one.
Manor Solomon became the sixth different scorer for the Hammers on 82 minutes, Patterson managing to get his finigertips to the ball, but succeeding only in pushing it on to the post from which it rebounded into the back of his net once again.
West Ham will host near neighbour Fulham in the Carabao Cup next week, high on confidence against a Premier League side will very little after a poor start to its season under new boss Alvaro Arbeloa.
Wrexham, bundled out of that competition in the first round by Middlesbrough, will have time to reflect on a disastrous outing here as Parkinson looks for answers to get his side back in a positive mindset before it hosts Southampton in the Championship next weekend.
