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- Updated: January 21, 2014
Manchester City eased into their first League Cup final in 38 years with a record 9-0 aggregate victory against semi-final opponents West Ham.
Holding a seemingly impregnable 6-0 first-leg lead, City strikers Alvaro Negredo and Sergio Aguero combined to complete the formalities at Upton Park.
Blues boss Manuel Pellegrini has targeted the unprecedented ‘quadruple’ of winning the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and Champions League in his first season at the Etihad.
As expected, City are already just 90 minutes from lifting their first trophy of the campaign after recording the biggest aggregate win in the League Cup semi-finals.
Negredo needed just 157 seconds to open the scoring when he planted in Portuguese teenager Marcos Lopez’s pinpoint cross with the freedom of the Hammers penalty area.
Aguero kept pace with his strike partner by pouncing on more calamitous Hammers defending to clip beyond goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen. And, after collecting a neat one-two from Aguero, Negredo surged through a pair of flimsy Hammers challenges to tuck past Jaaskelainen for the third.
City will face winners of tomorrow’s second leg semi-final between Manchester United or Sunderland at Wembley on 2 March.
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