Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup has praised his side following their 3-0 victory away to Valencia in the Europa League.

The Dane admitted that Adil Rami's early sending-off may have had a bearing on the result, but insisted his team could have won by a greater margin.

"It was a fantastic game. Of course a red card early in the game has an influence but in my many years in football I have seen sides go down to 10 at home in these kind of games and still win," Sky Sports News quotes him as saying.

"But we dominated the game from the first minute to the last minute. We scored three goals, and before the second we had two or three huge chances to score and it could have been even more.

"I am very pleased about winning here against a big side like Valencia."

The result leaves Swansea in first place in Group A after the first round of fixtures.

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Mark Langshaw