MY VIEW: CARDIFF DEFENDED WELL & FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

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CARDIFF DEFENDED WELL & FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER WON BACK TO BACK WINS IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE


A fairy tale ending for manager Neil Warnock and his Trojans



Cardiff gave everything in this match and thought they had lost the 3pts in injury time, but thanks to sub Zohore's first goal of the season, City got the 3pts



For the majority of the game City had defend and they did well up and till the 92nd min.


Cardiff are now out of the bottom three


Fantastic away support by Cardiff, who never stopped singing for the whole 90mins


First-half: Southampton controled the first-half and for most of the half Cardiff were on the back foot.



Lee Peltier outstanding in defence





SOUTHAMPTON 1 CARDIFF CITY 2
Crowd 31,438
Away Support Cardiff (3,200)

Cardiff: Etheridge; Peltier. Manga, Bamba; Paterson, Ralls, Gunnarsson, Arter, Bennett’ Decordova-Reid, Niasse.
Subs: Alex Smithies Leandro Bacuna Victor Camarasa Junior Hoilett Nathaniel Mendez-Laing Josh Murphy Kenneth Zohore





The first 25mins it was constant Southampton pressure and Cardiff were backs to the wall.



Cardiff did have a short period of attacking Southampton, with Bobby Reid making some good runs.


Southampton finished the half as the began it on top.




H/T 0-0


Southampton continued to control the game.


Warnock made two changes.

Cardiff replaced the Ice Man Gunnarson and Bobby Reid with Leandro Bacuna and Kenneth Zohore.


Then bang 68th min Paterson headed the ball down to Sol Bamba who tapped the ball in and sent wild celebrations with Bamba jumping in to the Cardiff fans section 0-1



Southampton's El Younoussi’s mazy run and shot drawing a save by Etheridge and was followed by two big blocks from Peltier, as it seemed certain to go in. What a let off for Cardiff City.

Niasse was replaced by Camarasa.


Backs to the walls for Cardiff again.

But Cardiff conceded a goal in injury time 1-1

Then bang in the last minute Kenneth Zohore got the winner


1-2

F/T 1-1




Lee Peltier My Man of the match

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Didn't see the match. But that was a brilliant result! And Zahore!? Get in!

Fair play to Pelts , outstanding blocks kept us in the game

Great win
Great fans
Great other results

i said it be a intresting 90 mins lol wasnt a fan of the starting 11 when i seen it but im more than happy to be proven wrong huge mahoosive 3 points bit of a shame we dont play nex weekend would like to have kept this going still big game against watford can we get another win i sure hope so glad to see big Z get the winner

i said it be a intresting 90 mins lol wasnt a fan of the starting 11 when i seen it but im more than happy to be proven wrong huge mahoosive 3 points bit of a shame we dont play nex weekend would like to have kept this going still big game against watford can we get another win i sure hope so glad to see big Z get the winner

Looks like relegation with a record points low is sounding more and more stupid by the week. Lets hope this is the springboard Zohore needs to knock in a few more. Never been his number one fan, but I have a feeling we may be reliant on him knocking a few more in if we are to stay up.

Another fantastic team effort. They just don’t drop their heads. I am really starting to believe we could do this against all the odds.

All you could hear was City fans etc except for an odd one or two of that awful drone about saints marching in !

Another fantastic 3 points .... a pity Bamba spoilt his day switching off for their equaliser , never mind forgiven ! time for beers..... safe journey home Bluebirds

Excellent game, superb result, up to 15th....... Rest and go again against Watford

Great to see the togetherness, Warnock, Blackwell, Jepson, all players and fans. Deserved lads. MASSIVE BUZZ. Up the City.

At 1-1 we could easily have gone into our shell. Great come back. Amazing back to back wins, well done Warnock and the squad.

Crowd 31,438

Incl 3,200 Cardiff fans

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Could have felt sorry for ourselves conceding a late soft goal but went after a winner and got it ! Great attitude, need at least 4 points from next 2 games , Saints playing

Looks like we'll finish about tenth then

Southampton next 3 games Man U,Spurs & Liverpool

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Buzzing with the result and with all that's happened it's amazing how this team has responded first back to back wins in the premier league.
I admire the whole team staff and fans what a great club we have up the city well done all great support today as well safe trip home .delighted for zahore aswell

Great result watched online but is it me or did bennet have a poor game his crosses were poor made numerous mistakes! But team all together and bamba showed the emotions at end brilliant.

it wasn't a particularly good performance from us.

southampton are a very average side nowadays. they pass the ball about nicely, but once we put men behind the ball they lacked any real cutting edge to grind out chances. they are one of those teams that are nice to play against.

warnock's tactics were spot on again today. he doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for this.

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Just home and to concede in 91 minutes and then to score the winner in 94 minutes shows how this side is so together.

It was that togetherness and refusal to go down without a right that got us promoted. We make up for any lack of footballing quality with a never say die attitude

it wasn't a particularly good performance from us.

southampton are a very average side nowadays. they pass the ball about nicely, but once we put men behind the ball they lacked any real cutting edge to grind out chances. they are one of those teams that are nice to play against.

warnock's tactics were spot on again today. he doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for this.

You are right NW has taken some stick this season for his tactics after some results and I have lost count of the number of times I have read he is "out of his depth in the PL" "tactically naive" etc. etc.

My personal opinion is he has performed a near miracle by achieving 25 points from 26 games with the squad we have on paper. Squads have glass ceilings and can only achieve finite outputs but ours is now performing to the maximum week in week out which is frankly incredible when everything is taken into account.

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Looks like we'll finish about tenth then

You have predicted that since the beginning of the season. As always I hope you are correct but that means catching West Ham/Everton/Watford who are currently 8 points ahead of us.

I really want you to be right but it will be a hard call. Anywhere from 17th and above will do me but after the most unpredictable season I can ever remember you never know where we will finish.

it wasn't a particularly good performance from us.

southampton are a very average side nowadays. they pass the ball about nicely, but once we put men behind the ball they lacked any real cutting edge to grind out chances. they are one of those teams that are nice to play against.

warnock's tactics were spot on again today. he doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for this.

You are right NW has taken some stick this season for his tactics after some results and I have lost count of the number of times I have read he is "out of his depth in the PL" "tactically naive" etc. etc.

My personal opinion is he has performed a near miracle by achieving 25 points from 26 games with the squad we have on paper. Squads have glass ceilings and can only achieve finite outputs but ours is now performing to the maximum week in week out which is frankly incredible when everything is taken into account.

Neil Warnock knows his players, knows their capabilities and is obviously well aware that we do not have the skills and abilities of players available to the majority of our opponents. He adopts tactics that suit the players that are available to him, and kmows their strengths and weaknesses. I think he has worked miracles to keep us in with a fighting chance of avoiding the drop, and defying the bookies and critics, most of whom had us down as a certainty for relegation, and as we know, even a suggestion of us going down with a new record low points total.

I think most people who criticize him just show their lack of knowledge about the game. As I have said on other threads, being good at football manager on a computer game is not the same as living in the real world. I am sure Warnock would love to see us playing the sort of free flowing football that Liverpool played yesterday. Give him £100m to get those sort of players here, and I am sure his tactics would be completely different. He is without doubt, one of the best managers this club has ever had.