Brentford delivered a huge blow to West Ham's top-four hopes as the Bees moved further clear of the relegation places with victory in west London.

Second-half goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Ivan Toney saw Thomas Frank's side climb to 13th in the table, 12 points clear of the relegation places, to all but confirm their Premier League safety.

Mbeumo fired in from Toney's pass shortly after half-time, before turning provider for his team-mate as Toney headed in after 64 minutes.

The hosts had appeared the more likely to break the deadlock before half-time, but the heavily-involved Mbeumo headed at Lukasz Fabianski and also saw a powerful strike pushed away by the West Ham goalkeeper.

The visitors managed only one shot on target - a first-half Tomas Soucek header - in a subdued display, while Kurt Zouma was forced off early with an ankle problem ahead of Thursday's Europa League quarter-final second leg in Lyon.

West Ham remain sixth, six points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham in the race for Champions League football, having also played a game more than Spurs.

Mbuemo later said: "We are very happy again to win this derby. We got a clean sheet and this will give a lot of confidence. We are all happy and will celebrate in the changing room.

"I am very happy as well because I didn't score for a while and got another assists to help the team to win.

"My celebration was a bet with the friend and I had to do this.

"We had a perfect week at the training ground, we felt it on the pitch today and brought everything to the game.

"We take it game by game as we always do and take as many points as we can to be safe as soon as possible."