Swansea City 6-0 Cambridge United: Sparkling Swansea thrash Cambridge in Carabao Cup
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Wayne Routledge shoots through the legs of Cambridge goalkeeper Callum Burton to score Swansea's sixth goal
Swansea City continued their sparkling start to the season as they thrashed Cambridge 6-0 in the Carabao Cup.
The Swans are yet to lose under Steve Cooper and that record was never under threat as they dismantled their League Two visitors in the second round.
Kristoffer Peterson began the rout inside a minute, before George Byers doubled the hosts' lead.
Sam Surridge scored twice and there were also goals for Jordon Garrick and Wayne Routledge.
Swansea's reward is a third-round tie away to Premier League side Watford, to be played in the week commencing 23 September.
Cambridge had knocked out Brentford on penalties in the first round and came to Wales with hopes of claiming another Championship scalp.
But Colin Calderwood's team were outclassed by one of the second tier's early pacesetters, despite Cooper changing his entire starting XI following Sunday's win over Birmingham.
Summer signing Peterson steered in his first Swansea goal after good work down the right from Garrick.
Byers tapped in his third of the season to make it 2-0 on 20 minutes before Surridge prodded home from Peterson's cross.
Cambridge almost responded when Jack Roles rattled a shot against the bar, but Swansea made it 4-0 when Routledge's shot was parried and Garrick marked his full debut by sweeping in the rebound.
It was 5-0 in first-half stoppage time after a neat exchange on the edge of the box allowed on-loan Bournemouth striker Surridge to claim his third goal in Swans colours.
Routledge rounded off the scoring 14 minutes from the end, while there was a special moment as academy product Jack Evans came on for his senior debut having missed the whole of last season after being diagnosed with cancer.
Swansea head coach Steve Cooper said: "It's obviously a positive night. The objective was to win and we did that in comfortable fashion in the end.
"That's because we started well. We scored early and that set the tone for the rest of the evening.
"It was a really positive evening for us, with Tom Carroll playing, Tivonge Rushesha making his debut, Ben Cabango getting more minutes, Jordon Garrick scoring and Sam Surridge getting a couple of goals.
"But the best part of the evening in the grand scheme of things was Jack Evans. I think everybody should be proud of him."
Cambridge manager Colin Calderwood said: "We were washed away early on in the game. The first attack was a goal and that set the tone for the rest of the game.
"It's rubbish when you go 2-0 or 3-0 down very early if I'm honest.
"We couldn't cope and couldn't stop Swansea at all. We were well and truly tested and stretched and we came up against a terrific level of football.
"I don't think it will impact what we are going to do in the coming weeks and nor should it. We came up against a team at a very good level."