City's thumping first-leg win, which featured a hat-trick from Alvaro Negredo, two Edin Dzeko goals and one from Yaya Toure, has ensured the return meeting at Upton Park is likely to be little more than a formality.
In Manuel Pellegrini's first season at the helm, City have racked up 103 goals in all competitions and go into Tuesday's game in supreme form, boasting 15 wins from a 17-match unbeaten run.
It would take a miracle of epic proportions for Sam Allardyce's Premier League strugglers to turn the tie around and history is not on their side.
Even an unlikely repeat of West Ham's biggest win over City - a 6-1 scoreline achieved twice in the 1962-63 season - would not be enough to see the London club, who have never won the League Cup, through to their third final.
West Ham will be able to call on the services of captain Kevin Nolan, who has completed a four-match ban following his red card at Fulham on New Year's Day.
The manager had to play Matt Taylor at right-back in Saturday's 3-1 defeat against Newcastle United, which saw the club slump back into the relegation zone, because of an injury to George McCartney in the warm-up.
With Guy Demel and Winston Reid still missing, Allardyce's back four will have an unfamiliar look to it, and a visit from free-scoring City is likely to be the last thing the West Ham boss wants.
