Is there any need to play down Swansea's League Cup success? Regardless of who they faced, Swansea can only beat what is in front of them and they did just that. Hardly their fault Bradford got to the final and not someone else like say Arsenal. A trophy is a trophy at the end of the day and mind you, they beat us over two legs and Liverpool at Anfield in the process. Also to say we were free fall under Benitez seems somewhat off. If anything, we were inconsistent under him overall but heading into that tie, we were in decent form winning 8 of the 10 matches before that.