West Ham took a big step towards the quarter-finals of the Europa Conference League with a comfortable first-leg victory at AEK Larnaca.
Michail Antonio scored two first-half goals for David Moyes' side, who have now won all nine of their matches in the competition this term.
It was no more than the Hammers deserved with Antonio almost adding a third after the break when he drove a low effort against the right-hand post.
The Cypriot hosts caused the visitors some early problems but West Ham grew in confidence and took the lead when unmarked Antonio headed Said Benrahma's left-wing delivery into the right corner.
With the Premier League side searching for a second, Pablo Fornals drove wide of the left post moments before Antonio doubled the lead when he collected a pass on the edge of the area and superbly curled an effort around his marker into the top-right corner.
Hammers boss David Moyes said: "Two-nil is a good advantage to go back to London with and that's nine European games we've won now, so it's great credit to the players.
"We weren't at our best tonight, but we got the goals, which were all-important.
"I didn't like a lot of the performance but overall, it's a cup competition and we had to win and giving ourselves a two-goal advantage going into the second leg at home, it's not game over but it's certainly given us a good advantage.
"I didn't think we played well enough in and around their box.
"I didn't think the forwards had enough moments again, but we tried to build up better and play better.
"Sad Benrahma puts in a good cross and Micky gets the header for his first goal and that gave us a real start, because even though we started the game quite well, we never penetrated them enough or really got in behind them.
"In the end, I was really pleased to go in a couple of goals up at half-time."