Gerrard said: "Over the last four or five games we have been much better as a unit and the form of the big man (Heskey) up front has helped. When he's on song, and Michael and Milan are chipping in as well, then we are a real force.
"We wanted to get at West Ham early today and when we scored two goals in the first ten minutes it was comfortable for us. At these kind of places you expect the home side to come at you and it was always our intention to stop that from happening."