The Swans entered the game at the Liberty Stadium having not mustered a league goal in their four previous outings, but there was no stopping them once Scott Sinclair ended their 374-minute wait by slotting home from the spot in the 14th minute, after a needless Paul Scharner challenge on Joe Allen. Leroy Lita grabbed his first goal for the club 10 minutes later, nodding home from Sinclair's header across the box, before Nathan Dyer raced on to a flick-on from the striker to fire in the third shortly after the break. The win, which moved Swansea up to 12th in the table, finished a difficult week on and off the pitch for the Swans on a high. Rodgers' father Malachy died a week ago after a battle with cancer, and the Northern Irishman returned to work on Thursday to find a defensive crisis waiting for him in the form of Steven Caulker's injury and the failure to complete the signings of Darnel Situ and Rafik Halliche. And Rodgers said: "I thought we thoroughly deserved the win, it was a very complete performance. Our performance level has been excellent in the first five games, and that's three clean sheets now, and we have always looked like scoring. "But we have never had that bit of good fortune, but our play with and without the ball was top class. "Sometimes if you play like we have been playing and you don't pick up a win it may drag on and you can lose confidence, but it was an outstanding team performance." Rodgers felt the early penalty was that bit of luck his side had been lacking, and he praised Sinclair's composure as the hat-trick hero of their play-off success fired low to Ben Foster's left. "It helped us to get the early goal we have been wanting," he said. "It was a terrific run into the box by Joe Allen and Scott's calmness in those situations is incredible. We just needed a break, that was the one that did it for us." The only worry for the hosts was a nasty-looking head injury suffered by full-back Neil Taylor, the Wales international clattered by Peter Odemwingie as he made a brave far-post clearance. Odemwingie was booked for the challenge but Rodgers dismissed it as a clash of heads, and was able to report Taylor had not been seriously hurt. "He is fine, I have just seen him," he said. "It was a brave header at the back post. He knows he is going to get clattered, but he made a good contact and Odemwingie has come in behind him. But he is fine, he is getting stitches in his head so he is happy. "It was an honest challenge to be fair. It's two players, one has to be really brave and make a clearance knowing he will be clattered, and the attacking player has to go and try and put something on it." West Brom rarely threatened Michel Vorm in the Swansea goal with Shane Long and Graham Dorrans seeing their best efforts denied by the Dutchman. But manager Roy Hodgson was more concerned about the defensive errors that cost his side. Hodgson said: "I thought we played poorly and Swansea played very well and when you get that combination it is going to be difficult to get a result. "That attempt is not helped by conceding two goals that were clear defensive errors, and 2-0 down at half-time we are going to have to show a lot of character to get back in the game. "That lasted three minutes before the third goal, which was another goal I am very disappointed to concede as we did not think Swansea's goals would come from long kicks from the goalkeeper and flick-ons behind our defence."
