Jarrod Bowen scored his sixth goal of the season to set West Ham on their way to an impressive win that saw them go back to the Championship summit.
Joel Piroe, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Taty Castellanos, Mohamadou Kante and Manor Solomon were also all on target for the rampant Hammers.
“We came up against an exceptional front-line tonight,” Parkinson added.
“But equally in that first half those two goals – those two moments – we could have dealt with so much better.
“To come to a place like this with a team full of confidence you’ve got to defend with a lot more resilience and more tenacity in key moments than we did tonight.
“First 25 minutes there wasn’t a great deal in the game and we got in some great positions.
“But unfortunately the very basics of defending came up short and if you know where you need to be in those moments teams like West Ham are going to punish you.
“Part of me, respecting that they are a good team, but there’s another part of me thinking we played Chelsea and Nottingham Forest, Coventry in the National League and Sheffield United and given a better account of ourselves in those games than we did tonight.”
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