A REPORTERS VIEW OF CARDIFF CITY TODAY :
Sat Aug 26, 2023 4:43 pm
Cardiff City 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday: Wintle's injury-time penalty earns Bulut first league win
Cardiff City scored late against the Owls to get their first win of the season
By Tom James
Cardiff City boss Erol Bulut earned his first Championship win in dramatic fashion as Ryan Wintle’s 97th-minute penalty sealed a 2-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday.
Barry Bannan looked to have broken Bluebird hearts with a fine curled effort after Ike Ugbo had given the hosts the lead, but Wintle showed nerves of steel as he stepped up and buried the penalty to send the Cardiff City Stadium into raptures.
After taking just one point from their opening three league fixtures, Cardiff went into the game knowing that they had to start getting wins on the board and faced a Wednesday side who were bottom of the Championship pile with no points to their name.
Bulut made three changes to the team that started in the 2-1 defeat to Leicester last weekend, with summer signings Manolis Siopsis and Yakou Meite making their first starts and Perry Ng, who signed a new contract with the club earlier this week, returning to the XI
It was the new starters who got off to the brightest start, in fact, as an Aaron Ramsey corner in the second minute fell to Siopsis, who dragged his shot just wide from the edge of the box.
Meite too looked threatening early on, as he made some surging runs down the wing with the Wednesday defenders struggling to control his pace and power.
Cardiff enjoyed plenty of the ball in the opening exchanges and soon went in search of goals as Ng and Ramsey tried to get things moving with a series of well-worked passes into the area, only for them to be scrambled away.
The Bluebirds got their first real chance to break the deadlock after quarter of an hour, as Meite - who won the afternoon-long physical battle with Wednesday’s Bambo Diaby - did brilliantly well to find Callum O’Dowda in the area.
The Irishman swung at it but completely fluffed his lines as the chance went begging and groans rolled around the stadium.
And there was the same reaction moments later as Mark McGuiness met Ramsey’s corner first-time but blazed his effort well wide.
The Wales captain grew more and more into the half and looked to be the one that would make things happen, while Siopsis proved a source of frustration for Wednesday as he got under their skin, with skipper Barry Bannan shown a yellow card.
But despite Ramsey’s best efforts, and those of Ng, the two sides went into half-time goalless, with Alnwick barely tested at the other end until the closing moments of the half.
That soon changed, however, as Cardiff opened the scoring two minutes into the second period, with Ng at the centre of it again as he floated another dangerous ball in towards the back post.
His cross was met by O’Dowda, who nodded it down to Ugbo - a passenger for much of the first half - with the Canadian controlling the ball with his chest before rifling it home from close range.
The strike was just what the doctor ordered, as a lifted Cardiff went on the offensive again in the opening minutes of the half, with Joe Ralls seeing his low driven effort saved before O’Dowda was denied by a fine Devis Vasquez stop as he was put through one-on-one.
Wednesday looked to level the scores and almost did so as Windass caught the Bluebirds defenders napping and headed Vaulk’s cross goalwards, only to be denied by a fine athletic stop from Alnwick.
But after an onslaught of corners, the visitors would have their equaliser minutes later as Bannan curled in a fine effort from outside the box. The Cardiff defence had held strong but there was nothing Alnwick could do about that one.
That goal looked to have left Cardiff's hearts broken for another weekend, but there was to be another twist in the tale as former Bluebird Will Vaulks was judged to have handled the ball as he defended a cross deep into injury time, with referee Darren Bond pointing to the spot.
Up stepped Wintle who tucked it into the bottom left corner to spark wild scenes, with Bulut delighted to earn his first league win
Cardiff City scored late against the Owls to get their first win of the season
By Tom James
Cardiff City boss Erol Bulut earned his first Championship win in dramatic fashion as Ryan Wintle’s 97th-minute penalty sealed a 2-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday.
Barry Bannan looked to have broken Bluebird hearts with a fine curled effort after Ike Ugbo had given the hosts the lead, but Wintle showed nerves of steel as he stepped up and buried the penalty to send the Cardiff City Stadium into raptures.
After taking just one point from their opening three league fixtures, Cardiff went into the game knowing that they had to start getting wins on the board and faced a Wednesday side who were bottom of the Championship pile with no points to their name.
Bulut made three changes to the team that started in the 2-1 defeat to Leicester last weekend, with summer signings Manolis Siopsis and Yakou Meite making their first starts and Perry Ng, who signed a new contract with the club earlier this week, returning to the XI
It was the new starters who got off to the brightest start, in fact, as an Aaron Ramsey corner in the second minute fell to Siopsis, who dragged his shot just wide from the edge of the box.
Meite too looked threatening early on, as he made some surging runs down the wing with the Wednesday defenders struggling to control his pace and power.
Cardiff enjoyed plenty of the ball in the opening exchanges and soon went in search of goals as Ng and Ramsey tried to get things moving with a series of well-worked passes into the area, only for them to be scrambled away.
The Bluebirds got their first real chance to break the deadlock after quarter of an hour, as Meite - who won the afternoon-long physical battle with Wednesday’s Bambo Diaby - did brilliantly well to find Callum O’Dowda in the area.
The Irishman swung at it but completely fluffed his lines as the chance went begging and groans rolled around the stadium.
And there was the same reaction moments later as Mark McGuiness met Ramsey’s corner first-time but blazed his effort well wide.
The Wales captain grew more and more into the half and looked to be the one that would make things happen, while Siopsis proved a source of frustration for Wednesday as he got under their skin, with skipper Barry Bannan shown a yellow card.
But despite Ramsey’s best efforts, and those of Ng, the two sides went into half-time goalless, with Alnwick barely tested at the other end until the closing moments of the half.
That soon changed, however, as Cardiff opened the scoring two minutes into the second period, with Ng at the centre of it again as he floated another dangerous ball in towards the back post.
His cross was met by O’Dowda, who nodded it down to Ugbo - a passenger for much of the first half - with the Canadian controlling the ball with his chest before rifling it home from close range.
The strike was just what the doctor ordered, as a lifted Cardiff went on the offensive again in the opening minutes of the half, with Joe Ralls seeing his low driven effort saved before O’Dowda was denied by a fine Devis Vasquez stop as he was put through one-on-one.
Wednesday looked to level the scores and almost did so as Windass caught the Bluebirds defenders napping and headed Vaulk’s cross goalwards, only to be denied by a fine athletic stop from Alnwick.
But after an onslaught of corners, the visitors would have their equaliser minutes later as Bannan curled in a fine effort from outside the box. The Cardiff defence had held strong but there was nothing Alnwick could do about that one.
That goal looked to have left Cardiff's hearts broken for another weekend, but there was to be another twist in the tale as former Bluebird Will Vaulks was judged to have handled the ball as he defended a cross deep into injury time, with referee Darren Bond pointing to the spot.
Up stepped Wintle who tucked it into the bottom left corner to spark wild scenes, with Bulut delighted to earn his first league win
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Re: A REPORTERS VIEW OF CARDIFF CITY TODAY :
Sun Aug 27, 2023 5:44 am
Well done city BLUEBIRDS
Re: A REPORTERS VIEW OF CARDIFF CITY TODAY :
Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:57 am
Fair comment from the Press... 
Re: A REPORTERS VIEW OF CARDIFF CITY TODAY :
Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:38 am
Sven wrote:Fair comment from the Press...
Chris,
I realised it was not Glen Williams
