In-form Swansea stretched their unbeaten run to nine games in the Coca-Cola Championship with a richly deserved 2-0 victory over Scunthorpe at Glanford Park.

The Swans are the form team in the Championship and they showed precisely why, as Scunthorpe were swept aside by Paulo Sousa's impressive side.

Craig Beattie opened the scoring with a precise free-kick in the first half, the striker drilling home from 25 yards into the corner for his third goal in his last four games.

Former Ajax forward Cedric Van der Gun then gave the Welsh side breathing space with a second goal after the break.

He caught the home side out after 67 minutes when Darren Pratley broke from midfield and fed Van der Gun, who raced in on goal and produced a clinical right-footed finish which went in off the post.

The Swans never looked like surrendering their advantage from that point, as they kept a fifth clean sheet in their last six games.