West Brom 0-2 Cardiff
It was a bit of a surprise the win tonight, I was happy thinking of a draw would be good and the longer the game when on at 1-0 I was feeling the game was going to end 1-1. The other surprise was Kelvin Etuhu getting the nod to join Michael Chopra in attack a head of Ross McCormack. The win means Cardiff move up to third, five points behind tonight’s victims who stay second.
It was the first time the Bluebirds have beat West Brom at the Hawthorns since 1956/57 season but it’s not like the fixture is a regular thing between the two clubs having played each other in only eight season since then counting tonight in the League. City did have a 4-2 League Cup win at the Hawthorns a few seasons back.
From what I could hear on the radio, besides the Cardiff fans in good voice and Cardiff defence had to soak-up a pressure but poor finish also helped.
Cardiff first goal came via Chris Burke 18 minutes into the game as a left-foot shot flew past Albion stopper. Baggies manager Roberto Di Matteo will have been furious with the way in which his defenders backed off, allowing Burke to run 20 yards or more unchallenged before firing into the bottom corner. It was his second goal in as many games.
Cardiff second was late into the game when West Brom’s goalkeeper head-butt Michael Chopra the referee showed the keeper a red card and he was send-off. The replacement goalkeeper could have been a hero and keep the Baggies in the game, Whittingham placed the ball on the spot, but the pen was far from his best a weak left-footed penalty was saved but unlucky for the keeper the rebound went back to Whittingham who did not miss with his second time.
West Brom boss Roberto Di Matteo on keeper Scott Carson's sending off:
"Personally I have not seen what happened, the game was being developed in the middle of the pitch.
"It's disappointing, he's going to be suspended now for three games.
"I haven't spoke to him about it yet, I need to see first what happened. Then I will have a conversation with him."
Asked whether club discipline could be on the cards, he replied: "That's too early to decide now, I need to find out what happened exactly."
Responding to Carson's banishment, Cardiff boss Dave Jones said:
"I didn't see it, but the lads alongside me said he just head-butted him and you can't do that.
"No matter if Chops hasn't done anything, he's challenged for the ball - you can't do it, crazy.
"I don't want anybody to get sent off but if you do that then...if it was one of my players then I would be going absolutely ape. I'd be climbing the wall.
"He took the pressure off us."
On the performance, Jones told BBC Sport Wales:
"I felt our first half performance was superb. We could have come in two or three up and I don't think West Brom would have had any complaints.
"Second half, a lot of tired bodies out there. We limited them to long-range shooting and crossing from deep.
"So the whole back five did the job. We didn't allow them to get around the back of us and we made them hit long balls and two centre-halves gobbled everything up.
"But as a rearguard action it was superb and I think we frightened them as well because they couldn't get everybody going forward because they knew that we could break on them."
It was a bit of a surprise the win tonight, I was happy thinking of a draw would be good and the longer the game when on at 1-0 I was feeling the game was going to end 1-1. The other surprise was Kelvin Etuhu getting the nod to join Michael Chopra in attack a head of Ross McCormack. The win means Cardiff move up to third, five points behind tonight’s victims who stay second.
It was the first time the Bluebirds have beat West Brom at the Hawthorns since 1956/57 season but it’s not like the fixture is a regular thing between the two clubs having played each other in only eight season since then counting tonight in the League. City did have a 4-2 League Cup win at the Hawthorns a few seasons back.
From what I could hear on the radio, besides the Cardiff fans in good voice and Cardiff defence had to soak-up a pressure but poor finish also helped.
Cardiff first goal came via Chris Burke 18 minutes into the game as a left-foot shot flew past Albion stopper. Baggies manager Roberto Di Matteo will have been furious with the way in which his defenders backed off, allowing Burke to run 20 yards or more unchallenged before firing into the bottom corner. It was his second goal in as many games.
Cardiff second was late into the game when West Brom’s goalkeeper head-butt Michael Chopra the referee showed the keeper a red card and he was send-off. The replacement goalkeeper could have been a hero and keep the Baggies in the game, Whittingham placed the ball on the spot, but the pen was far from his best a weak left-footed penalty was saved but unlucky for the keeper the rebound went back to Whittingham who did not miss with his second time.
West Brom boss Roberto Di Matteo on keeper Scott Carson's sending off:
"Personally I have not seen what happened, the game was being developed in the middle of the pitch.
"It's disappointing, he's going to be suspended now for three games.
"I haven't spoke to him about it yet, I need to see first what happened. Then I will have a conversation with him."
Asked whether club discipline could be on the cards, he replied: "That's too early to decide now, I need to find out what happened exactly."
Responding to Carson's banishment, Cardiff boss Dave Jones said:
"I didn't see it, but the lads alongside me said he just head-butted him and you can't do that.
"No matter if Chops hasn't done anything, he's challenged for the ball - you can't do it, crazy.
"I don't want anybody to get sent off but if you do that then...if it was one of my players then I would be going absolutely ape. I'd be climbing the wall.
"He took the pressure off us."
On the performance, Jones told BBC Sport Wales:
"I felt our first half performance was superb. We could have come in two or three up and I don't think West Brom would have had any complaints.
"Second half, a lot of tired bodies out there. We limited them to long-range shooting and crossing from deep.
"So the whole back five did the job. We didn't allow them to get around the back of us and we made them hit long balls and two centre-halves gobbled everything up.
"But as a rearguard action it was superb and I think we frightened them as well because they couldn't get everybody going forward because they knew that we could break on them."
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