Norwich relegated from Premier League after 4-0 thrashing by West Ham – in pictures

Canaries become first club to be sent down this season after Antonio scores all four for Hammers at Carrow Road

Norwich manager Daniel Farke consoles Josh Martin after their 4-0 defeat to West Ham at Carrow Road, on Saturday, November 11. The result meant Norwich were relegated from the Premier League. EPA

West Ham's Declan Rice comforts Max Aarons of Norwich. AP

Norwich City's Josh Martin. AP

A dejected Max Aarons at the end of the game.

Michail Antonio after scoring his team's - and his - third goal at Norwich. Getty

Michail Antonio heads home his second goal. EPA

West Ham United's Michail Antonio celebrates after scoring his second. Reuters

Norwich City's Ben Godfrey at the end of the game. AP

West Ham's Michail Antonio scores his third goal. AP

West Ham's Michail Antonio smashes home the opening goal. AP

Michail Antonio celebrates scoring his second. Reuters

Michail Antonio after scoring his fourth. Getty

Norwich have been relegated from the Premier League after a resounding 4-0 defeat to West Ham at Carrow Road.

Michail Antonio's four goals sealed the Canaries' fate, as Daniel Farke's side became the first team to lose their top-flight status this season.

Norwich were already six points adrift at the foot of the table before the coronavirus pandemic, and their form since the restart took a turn for the worse.

Six successive league defeats have now followed, to extend the losing run to seven in total, in which time last season's Championship winners have only managed to score once.

Antonio's two goals in the first half put an end to Norwich's already slim hopes of survival, but West Ham's emphatic victory was sealed when he struck twice more in the second period to become the first Hammers player to net four in a Premier League game.

Norwich manager Farke said: "We are unbelievably disappointed. We wanted to beat the odds again but when the dust settles the outcome is more or less what was expected.

"From the first day after promotion our chances to survive were perhaps 5 per cent so in 19 out of 20 cases you will go down.

"If you have luck and no injuries then you have a chance. When we are 100 per cent we are competitive but when it’s 96 or 97 per cent then it sometimes looks like men against boys. That’s what I expected."