Some Swansea fans turned up late, bemused by the 7.05 kick-off.
They were not alone: the opposition did not start playing until
7.30, by which time they were three goals in arrears and this
Europa League qualifying tie was effectively over before the
away leg next Thursday. Petrolul's coach, Cosmin Contra, gave
his team a 5% chance of now going through, but he is renowned
for erring on the optimistic side.  Swansea are away to
Tottenham on Sunday and this was a case of anything you can do,
we can do too. Spurs had scored five against Dinamo Tbilisi
earlier in the evening and Michael Laudrup's slick passing team
gave the north London thoroughbreds no psychological advantage
in that respect. "Now let's hope for 5-5 on Sunday", Laudrup
said, smiling.  The Romanians were without their regular right-
back, who was suspended, and Wayne Routledge gave the
understudy, Sebastian Achim, a chasing he will never forget,
running past the young defender at will and scoring twice before
he was substituted, with the trip to W