Keogh helps Bluebirds to three points

Goal hero Andy Keogh

A last minute debut/first goal from Andy Keogh helped Cardiff City to all three points in this high noon show down at the Cardiff City stadium against Millwall.

It was the Londoners who took the lead within the first 10 minutes kind of against the run of play. Scott Barron scored for the visitors when he slotted the ball home from six yards.

The Cardiff City didn’t have to long to wait before the home team levelled the game, and it was top scorer Jay Bothroyd who gave the home fans some to cheer about. The City striker was making his 100th appearance Cardiff and this goal was it seventh so far this season. It came via a Lee Naylor thrown-in found Whittingham who had is shot blocked which found Bothroyd who fired home from close range.

The next major incident in the game gave the home fans a cheer, it was not a goal, but for the sending-off five minutes before half-time of midfielder Liam Trotter on Darcy Blake. It was a straight red from the ref. Millwall were down ten men which can be a double edge sword, Millwall could collapse or go the opposite way. Sometimes ten men can be harder to beat than eleven.

It was on the cards the team heading for the for the dressing rooms all square at half-time but three minutes into added time a penalty was awarded. Peter Whittingham was brought for a penalty, he stepped up to take the pen, it was him verses ex-Cardiff City goalkeeper David Forde produced a great save to keep the game all square. Could the luck Whittingham had in so much abundance last season that made him club and divisional top scorer have deserting him.

Cardiff came out like a bit of a dump squib failing to make the 11v10 advantage pay. Millwall were push forward even with ten man it was not until Cardiff City boss Dave Jones made a change. Once Jason Koumas came off the bench City turned the pressure they were under around and took the game more to the Eastenders. It went down to the last minute of normal time when the stalemate was broken when a cross from Bothroyd meet the head of Keogh and the two together conspired to Cardiff second and winning goal of the game