Cancelling Cardiff's Abu Dhabi sunshine break is NOT a punishment insists Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Saturday's 4-0 defeat also meant Cardiff's players have missed out on a trip to Abu Dhabi – the sunshine training break planned for this week abruptly cancelled.
Double sessions at the club’s Vale of Glamorgan training base are now on the agenda instead, after a match that summed up their season in 90 minutes.
Cardiff could not score when on top - with Fraizer Campbell and Kenwyne Jones spurning chances - and they conceded far too easily.
Tom Huddlestone struck the opener, helped by a big deflection off defender Andrew Taylor, before the excellent pairing of Long and Jelavic combined for the latter to beat David Marshall from the edge of the box.
The ex-Everton man was afforded the freedom of the area to head in the third, before Jake Livermore’s low finish completed the scoring.
Bluebirds boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer now faces the task of lifting a squad which lacked belief once they fell behind.
But the ex-Manchester United striker was quick to insist that cancelling their Abu Dhabi trip was NOT a punishment.
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