Swansea City boss Garry Monk admits they must be wary of West Ham United striker Andy Carroll.

Monk believes Carroll is the strongest forward in the Barclays Premier League and admits much of Swansea's game plan this week has been based on keeping the 6ft 4in target man quiet.

"It's something we have to put right but he is an incredible player physically," Monk said about the 26-year-old Geordie.

"He is probably the most powerful forward in the Premier League and he has supremacy over everyone. Sometimes when the ball in is right, there's not much you can do, but we have to try to stop him and that's something we've been working on.

"We want to put in a performance so we can put our performance down there earlier in the season behind us. We just felt disappointed at West Ham because we didn't reach our usual performance level and we don't want to make the same mistake again.

"We didn't give a good account of ourselves and we didn't use our strengths well enough in the game and, hopefully, we can do that better this time."