Swansea City produced an attractive performance on Wednesday night to defeat Newcastle United 3-0 at the Liberty Stadium.
Michael Laudrup's side had been beaten 1-0 by Valencia in the Europa League and 3-0 by Manchester City in the Premier League in their past two outings but managed to get back on track with a commanding yet lucky display over the Toon who had been on a four-match winning streak.
It took the entire first half for the Swans to open the scoring with Nathan Dyer, who had earlier replaced Alvaro Vazquez, firing home a volley from close range after Magpies keeper Tim Krul could only partially parry Alejandro Pozuelo's leftwing cross.
With just over 20 minutes remaining, Swansea found a second goal which came courtesy of some good work from Jonjo Shelvey whose effort was saved by Krul but rebounded in off defender Mathieu Debuchy.
The win was sealed in the 82nd minute when former Liverpool midfielder Shelvey produced a sublime 25-yard curler to send Swansea up to 11th which saw Newcastle drop to seventh.
Newcastle could have felt aggrieved after the defeat as Swans keeper Michel Vorm was on hand to deny a Loic Remy header while there were penalty calls against Ben Davies for handball and Ashley Williams for a challenge on Yoan Gouffran but referee Howard Webb kept his whistle in his hand.
2013/14 Premier League scores
Swansea City: 3 (Nathan Dyer 45+1', Mathieu Debuchy (og) 67', Jonjo Shelvey 82') Newcastle United: 0 Liberty Stadium, Swansea - 20,457
