Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup has lavished praise on his players following their 5-1 thrashing of Petrolul Ploiesti in the Europa League playoffs.

The Dane described his side's display as "excellent" and hailed their clinical finishing in the second half.

"To score five goals and win 5-1 is excellent. In the first half-hour we did very well, we kept the ball and moved them around," Sky Sports News quotes him as saying.

"We scored three of our goals, we could have scored more, and we gave them nothing.

"I told the players at half time we had the chance to go for a fourth goal and we did that. They were more offensive in the second half but we still dominated, got the fourth and a great fifth from Pozuelo."

Laudrup went on to warn his players against complacency ahead of the second leg, pointing out that there is still work to do despite the four-goal buffer.

"We still have to finish the job, after the first leg against Malmo I said we still had a job to do and that is the same here," he added.

"We are close to another historical achievement for this club and we have to finish it.

"We have done well here, we created chances and dominated the game. We don't have to do that next week, we just need to get a result."

Wayne Routledge bagged a brace during the game, with Michu and Alejandro Pozuelo finding the net, and Pecanha putting through his own goal to complete the rout.