Crysencio Summerville celebrates after scoring West Ham's first goalGetty Images
At a glance
Crysencio Summerville opens scoring for West Ham with fifth goal in as many games
Taty Castellanos heads a second before the break
West Ham now three points from safety, with Burnley 11 points adrift
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West Ham boosted their Premier League survival aspirations with a vital win at Burnley, whose own hopes appear increasingly forlorn.
While the Hammers remain 18th in the table, they are now just three points from safety with second-bottom Burnley 11 adrift of 17th-placed Nottingham Forest.
Given Burnley have now failed to record a top-flight victory since 26th October - a sequence stretching back 16 games - and have managed just three all season, it would take a remarkable reversal of fortunes for Scott Parker's side to avoid an immediate return to the Championship.
Meanwhile, West Ham will take heart after this success, which always seemed likely once Crysencio Summerville clipped the ball over advancing home goalkeeper Martin Dubravka, to give them a 13th-minute lead.
It continued the Dutch winger's rich vein of form as he registered his fifth goal in as many games in all competitions and ensured Nuno Espirito Santo's capitalised on their superiority.
And it was no surprise when Argentina forward Taty Castellanos doubled their advantage before the break, heading in a pinpoint delivery from the left from El Hadji Malick Diouf after a slick Summerville touch to the left-back.
It was no more than the visitors merited against opponents who looked vulnerable at the back and impotent in attack.
While Burnley rallied after the break neither Zian Flemming nor Marcus Edwards were able to make the most of gilt-edged opportunities to reduce the arrears and set up a grandstand finale.
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19Z. Flemming
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1M. Hermansen
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29A. Wan-Bissaka
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7C. Summerville
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18Mateus Fernandes
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11V. Castellanos
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