' MATCH THREAD: ' CARDIFF v BRENTFORD ' MATCH THREAD

Bluebirds on top

Brilliant from Zohore to win a header and somehow volley down for Whittingham.

Hoilett is flying around like a mad thing so far... he looks eager to impress.

Richards’ cross is blocked but Cardiff are searching. Looking good.

Wasted

Whittingham’s free kick is nodded away and then Harris is guilty of taking a touch too many.

The chance is gone.



Free kick

This time Warnock gets the foul he wanted. Hoilett down after a push in the back. Not quite shooting range for Whittingham, but a decent chance to whip one into the box.






Warnock angry at 4th official

Warnock is on his soapbox, apparently unhappy at a push on Zohore. The Brentford defence are having to be very robust to counter the big striker’s aerial threat.

Oh what a miss from Junior Hoilett! That had to go in...

Big chance! Lovely football from Whitts and @JoeBennett27. Bennett's cut back placed over from 15-yards by @jnrhoilett. (0-0)

Reckless

Late one from Bennett sees him escape a yellow card... perhaps deserved a booking as Bennett failed to pull his foot out of the way.

Brentford go on.






Cardiff much better

The Canadian almost makes amends by sliding a sneaky shot into the corner, but Bentley is equal to it.

I haven’t been counting, but Cardiff have had a lot more chances in this opening 25 minutes.

Free kick to Brentford

Brentford free kick straight at the Cardiff wall

No way through

The free kick hits the wall and then Brentford, in a mad panic, have a couple of stabs at hammering home the rebound.

The cheers from the Canton tell you they were both well wide.

Junior Hoilett's low curling shot from the edge of the box is held by Bentley. Good spell of possession from t

Bees looking to sting

Another Bees’ attack comes to nothing but the away fans are sounding their approval.

Decent little spell for the visitors.

Swap

Harris and Hoilett have swapped wings. Change of luck?

Good running by Kadeem to win a Cardiff corner. Whittingham to take

OOOOH! Harlee strides into midfield again and backheels to Sergi who finds Jota, his effort is deflected wide

Gunnarsson is crunched by a sandwich of two Brentford players going up for a header. Foul? No!

Warnock is further incensed when the ref blows for a Bees free kick... if this goes in there’ll be hell to pay.

Save!

Fantastic reactions from McGregor as Jota’s free kick is whipped in and headed goalwards...

Woah, what a save that was to keep us at 0-0.

1-0 Brentford

The Bees are in front.

Sergi Canos claims the goal and the Brentford fans are in raptures.

The tricky forward capped a fine move - when his side were down to 10 men after an injury. The Bluebirds were cut open then.

The first half was even steven's,but Cardiff went to sleep and gave away a sloppy goal to Brentford.

Banging it aimlessly forward for 46 mins and as soon as we try to regain possessions our fans boo

Awful first half lethargic and outplayed
Harris playing as if he is off
Midfield is awful

Harris typical winger in and out of form

Warnock knows his value, he can f**k off if he wa TVs more money

I don't know what it is with the midfield but after months of progress we seem to be back where we started before Warnock arrived. Come on, sort it out Neil

More interested in going sideways or backwards! Had a thew opportunities to break quickly but chose to slow play down. Fred needs more support

Cardiff a bit flat and Warnock needs a word

We are back underway at CCS! (0-1)

Cardiff get the second half up and running.

1-1

Morrison

1-1 Morrison

Great second half start

Another set piece chance for Whittingham to find a Cardiff head. Free kick this time. But Bentley claims when Morrison was threatening another.

Header again

And another chance! Morrison again rising to head towards goal... Bentley forced into yet another decent save.