Swansea City eight-1 Notts County

Swansea City ruthlessly demolished League Two Notts County eight-1 to seal their passage to the fifth spherical of the FA Cup in emphatic kind.

Tammy Abraham scored his first aim since October to put the dominant hosts ahead and Ninety seconds later his via ball situation up Nathan Dyer to double their lead.

Dyer added a 1/3 with a sweet first-time strike and, even supposing Noor Husin responded for the visitors with a intrepid hit, Abraham completed a sexy crew skedaddle to give Swansea a four-1 half-time lead.

The procession persisted after the rupture with targets from Kyle Naughton, Wayne Routledge and Tom Carroll – whose lustrous curling effort became the do away with of the bunch – as successfully as a memorable debut strike for Daniel James.

Swansea’s most attention-grabbing margin of victory on the Liberty Stadium sets up a fifth-spherical tie away against manager Carlos Carvalhal’s historic facet Sheffield Wednesday.

Swans race insurrection

Swansea’s priority this season is no doubt looking out out for to gain high-flight survival but, given their favourable diagram, Carvalhal and his avid gamers would be forgiven for thinking they could well bring collectively an improbable appearance at Wembley.

When the Portuguese became appointed in December, the Swans had been bottom of the Premier League table and regarded destined for relegation.

And even supposing they establish no longer appear to be agreeable yet, a race of appropriate one defeat in 9 video games below Carvalhal has considered Swansea climb out of the bottom three and reworked the temper on the Liberty Stadium.

Their priorities had been advantageous with seven modifications from Saturday’s league diagram at Leicester, though that didn’t pause them producing a shiny attacking show against Notts County on Tuesday.

Abraham opened the scoring as he grew to turn into in Luciano Narsingh’s appealing low contaminated, sooner than threading an very most attention-grabbing via ball to Dyer, who completed smartly in the bottom nook.

The winger scored his 2nd with an even better strike from one more Narsingh contaminated and, after Husin’s firm effort for the Magpies, Abraham restored Swansea’s three-aim cushion with an emphatic enact from a 1/3 Narsingh motivate.

Naughton struck most attention-grabbing his 2nd aim for the Swans early in the 2nd half after a heart-broken punch from the visitors’ goalkeeper Adam Collin, and Routledge bought in on the act with a trim low enact.

Carroll added a seventh in spectacular kind, turning 20 yards out and planting his arcing shot into the terminate nook, sooner than 20-Three hundred and sixty five days-light winger James came on for his debut and marked the occasion with a crisp, swerving effort from the edge of the penalty dwelling.

Magpies turn their consideration to League Two

If this opponents became a secondary anguish for Swansea, the the same would be said for a Notts County facet 1/3 in League Two and aiming to protect close promotion this season.

The associated charge of a protracted race in the FA Cup became advantageous and the Magpies’ proprietor Alan Hardy said sooner than the match that a characteristic in the final sixteen would develop the membership just about £750,000.

Nonetheless, there became by no manner any scope for an upset as Kevin Nolan’s males had been brutally dismantled by their free-scoring Premier League opponents.

They turn their consideration motivate to their League Two promotion negate with a time out to Barnet on Saturday.

Man of the match – Nathan Dyer (Swansea)

What the managers said

Notts County manager Kevin Nolan: « I manufacture no longer bear they deserved to be eight-1, however it is miles one among those video games the put their finishing became Premier League peculiar. Have to you give them opportunities they’re going to punish us – of 14 photos heading in the correct path and eight enjoy long gone in.

« Now we enjoy to be conscious of what is wanted, which is the league. Now we must choose this hit and motivate smiling.

« Coming to a Premier League crew, you’ve gotten to hope a few of their avid gamers choose it easy and your avid gamers are on high form and that gulf at college comes nearer, but a few of our avid gamers per chance iced over and didn’t react to the the same peculiar as the relaxation of the season.

« We would enjoy scored three or four – but Swansea had been not doubtless and did a official job. »

Swansea manager Carlos Carvalhal: « It is critical whether it is miles the most attention-grabbing result in the history, but the largest thing is the standpoint of the avid gamers that made your complete inequity. I told them sooner than the sport that we enjoy now got a bid tonight.

« I’m very proud of the avid gamers as they licensed the problem. They made Notts County glance tackle they establish no longer appear to be a fair crew, but they are a fair crew. The manner we performed made the variation. The attitude became not doubtless.

« We also completed the sport with three boys from the academy and we by no manner know if we can need them throughout the season. »

Excessive-scoring Swans – the most attention-grabbing of the stats

• Swansea’s eight-1 scoreline against Notts County is their most attention-grabbing really handy margin in the FA Cup.
• Essentially, a seven-aim victory is the most attention-grabbing margin between two league sides in the FA Cup since Chelsea beat Ipswich 7-zero in a 2011 1/3-spherical tie.
• The Swans are also the first facet to rep eight targets against one more league facet in the FA Cup since Walsall beat Torquay eight-four in a 2nd-spherical replay in December 1995.
• Tammy Abraham ended a 14-sport aim drought with his first aim in 825 minutes for Swansea.
• Nathan Dyer scored a brace for the first time since August 2014 when netting twice in a 3-zero protect close for Swansea against West Brom.
• Luciano Narsingh offered a hat-trick of assists against the Magpies – as many as he had recorded in his outdated 31 appearances for Swansea.