Swansea coach Garry Monk said he was pleased with how his side stuck to their game plan in their 1-0 victory over Arsenal on Monday.
Monk's men claimed their third win in a row in the league after Bafe Gomis' strike barely crossed the goal line in the 85th minute.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger criticised Swansea for sitting back and defending, but Monk brushed off his counterpart's assessment, insisting his players adapted well.
"That's a shame," Monk said. "We could have come here and gone toe-to-toe but with the individual quality that Arsenal have, they could have maybe hurt us. We set up well with a game plan."
Monk added: "Of course it was going to be difficult, but we've done it all season.
"We've played games where we've dominated and won, and we've had games where we've had to set up like this, concede possession a little bit.
"The idea was to get to the last 20 minutes still in the game, make the substitutions and hope we could get the goal on the breakaway, which proved to be the case.
"If we didn't play, I don't know how we got three points."
Swansea remain eighth but closed the gap on the Europa League qualification spots with sixth-placed Tottenham now only two points ahead in the table. Southampton are just one point clear in seventh, which would be enough for a European spot if Arsenal beat Aston Villa in the FA Cup final.
The perils of playing Europa League football on Thursday nights are known to have a negative effect on teams' league form and Monk was less than enthusiastic when asked about the prospect of playing in the competition.
"What will be will be," he said. "The only thing that will change if we get there will be the planning in terms of recruitment in the summer, not that the chairman will want to hear that.
"We've got two games left and we'll see where it takes us. If it happens, it happens. I don't lie in bed at night worrying about it."