we're the favourites' to win Capital One Cup

                  

“We have to accept we’re favourites,” Laudrup said. “We have to be because we’re playing in the Premier League and they’re in League Two. That’s just how it is. “It’ll be a huge game for everybody.“Before the quarter-final against Middlesbrough I asked my team who had ever played in a cup final; one player only, Pablo Hernandez, when he was with me five years ago in Getafe.“So this is about the trophy. “But it’ll be the same or even more so for Bradford.

“Imagine a fourth division team going to Wembley, with 90,000 fans [in the stadium]. So if we’re talking about being a little nervous before the final it goes for them as well.”With Swansea on the verge of a first major title, and currently in seventh place in the English top flight, the Danish manager acknowledges that his side have far exceeded all their pre-season predictions.“When I came in July we talked about ‘second season syndrome’ and then lost keys players, so everybody thought we’d struggle,” Laudrup said.

“So to have 37 points after 26 games and be in a final is way ahead of what I could’ve imagined.”