Swansea piled the pressure on Cardiff manager Mick McCarthy as a 3-0 thrashing in the South Wales derby raised yet more questions about his future. Cardiff’s sixth consecutive defeat was their most painful in a game where they rarely laid a glove on their nearest rivals, and saw less than 30 per cent of the ball en route to a comprehensive defeat. The normally goal-shy Swans, who had scored only nine goals in their opening 11 Championship games, found chances difficult to create despite their early dominance, until Jamie Paterson’s superb strike struck both posts on its way past Alex Smithies for the opener. After a brief Cardiff resurgence at the start of the second half, Joel Piroe finished off a wonderfully crafted one-two with Paterson to dink over Smithies for the second, and 14 minutes later, the latter turned provider again to tee up Jake Bidwell to add a third from almost on the goal line. Swansea were left to celebrate the largest margin of victory in a South Wales derby ...