Swansea arrived with the best defence in the Championship. They'd conceded eight goals all season and went home having let in five.

The first came inside two minutes. Stephen Welsh lost the ball weakly to Kwame Poku in the centre circle, and Paul Smyth surged into the space and squared it for Kone, who was unmarked. Seven minutes later Kealey Adamson won the ball off Melker Widell, Poku swung in a left-footed cross, and Kone headed it into the far corner.

Then Lawrence Vigouroux brought Smyth down, picking up a booking for it, and Kone rolled in the penalty. Three-nil, and the 17,504 at Loftus Road could hardly believe what they were watching.

It could have looked different. Adam Idah's 20-yard drive was tipped on to the bar by a diving Pierce Charles, and Charles denied Widell just before the third went in. But QPR were ruthless with everything that came their way. Jimmy Dunne rose to head in Harvey Vale's corner in first-half stoppage time to make it 4-0, and the game was over before the interval.

Vitor Matos changed two players at half-time and Swansea saw most of the ball afterwards, without ever looking like getting back in it. Dunne made it five with four minutes left, sticking out a leg to steer Kone's wayward shot into the net. There was a warm welcome back for Karamoko Dembélé, too, ten months after his knee injury.

Kone told the BBC he'd be keeping the match ball on top of a new cupboard he'd just bought. He's earned the space.