Three points again today and manager's reaction

Two goals down with eight minutes gone, who didn’t think here we go again defeat to a bottom crawler. Bristol City before the game was sitting firmly on the foot of the table with Cardiff themselves sitting at the top table in second place.

The team had no Craig Bellamy and he wasn’t on the bench so Vincent Tan who was at the game today as yet to see his star loanee play. On the upside Michael Chopra was back in the starting after eight weeks out injured.

Two, nil down up stepped Jay Bothroyd to add some reality into the game when 12 minutes into the game he clawed one goal back. It was not all good news for the big Cardiff striker, he picked up a yellow card later in the for unsporting behaviour means he is now one yellow from a match ban. It was a long wait for Cardiff to level the score and it came just after the start of the second-half. It was last season top score who found the back of the net, Peter Whittingham. By the same time last season he had score eight but it was good to see him get his goal tally underway for this season.

Cardiff were having far the much better of the second-half and with 12 minutes to go Whittingham was foul but he step up to take the free-kick.

It was all starting to look like last season as Whittingham placed a prefect free-kick into the net, 3-2 to Cardiff. The game ended with Cardiff still second putting pressure on top of the table QPR. Cardiff travel to Coventry for a Tuesday night game and hopefully Craig Bellamy will be fit to play a bit. It was Whittingham 200th career start today

Managers after match comments

Cardiff City boss Dave Jones:

"Peter Whittingham was outstanding and his work rate was superb.

"He's also back to scoring again and both free-kicks were superbly taken. His second was pure quality.

"The first 10 minutes were very sloppy defensively and some of the players looked as though they were still on an international break.

"We had plenty of opportunities to score yet looked a little lazy at the back and perhaps that was because two of our defenders were away on international duty but never played.

"It was hard when we were 2-0 down but we cleared our heads quickly got back in to the game with Jay Bothroyd's goal and I told them at half-time if we could keep a clean sheet in the second half we would go on to win."

Bristol City boss Keith Millen:

"I couldn't have asked for a better start. We wanted commitment from the players to turn around our season and to go two up so early on was a dream start.

"We needed to keep that two goal advantage for as long as possible but when they pulled one back so quickly it got the crowd back on their side.

"I was happy going in at half-time but within 50 seconds of the restart we gave away a very soft free-kick.

"Their winner was a superb strike from Whittingham but I cannot understand why Bothroyd was allowed to stand five yards offside in front David James yet not be pulled up for it.

"David is very disappointed with the way the goals were scored and generally we didn't get any luck at all from the officials.

"We have quality in the squad and I firmly believe we will turn our season around."