Cardiff end their goal drought at Hillsborough..

By Rogero
November 10 2005

Cardiff secured three valuable points to lift themselves to 5th place and into the play off zone with an impressive display at Hillsborough. The SKY TV cameras witnessed the Blebirds exploit a weak Wednesday defence in the first half to take a 3-0 lead...

Jason Koumas and Cameron Jerome with a brace put the game beyond the Owls at Hillsborough on Wednesday night. The game was all over at half time!

The 20,324 crowd seemed lost in the massive arena that his Hillsborough, with over half the seats in the ground empty! Was it the effect of Sky TV or did the home fans know in advance it wasn't going to be their night!

Cardiff laid to rest a run of not scoring and moved into 5th place in the Championship...

League table as at Wednesday 9th November 2005

Pos Team                             P  W  D  L   F   A   GD Pts
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1   Sheffield United              18 14  2  2  38  15   23  44
2   Reading                         18 12  5  1  30  10   20  41
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3   Watford                         18  9  5  4  31  21   10  32
4   Luton Town                    18  8  4  6  27  25    2  28
5   Cardiff City                       18  7  6  5  28  20    8    27
6   Leeds United                  17  7  6  4  19  15    4  27
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7   Southampton                  17  5 10  2  19  13    6  25
8   Wolves                          18  6  7  5  23  18    5  25
9   Burnley                          18  7  4  7  26  23    3  25
10  Stoke City                     18  8  1  9  20  25   -5  25
11  Crystal Palace                16  7  3  6  26  18    8  24
12  Queens Park Rangers       18  6  6  6  20  23   -3  24
13  Ipswich Town                 18  6  5  7  21  27   -6  23
14  Preston North End           18  4 10  4  19  18    1  22

It's a reflection on how tight the division is when 5 points covers places 5th to 14th but league tables don't lie, and last night was a good win against a team who were beginning to turn the corner and move away from the bottom of the table.

The teams lined up as follows...

Sheff Wed: Weaver, Heckingbottom, Lee, Wood, Simek, Whelan, O'Brien, Brunt, Eagles (Partridge 80), Corr (Bullen 61), Graham (Agbonlahor 80).
Subs Not Used: Adamson, Rocastle.

Booked: Simek.

Cardiff: Alexander, Barker, Purse, Weston, Loovens, Whitley, Koumas, Ledley, Cooper (Parry 59), Lee (Ardley 88), Jerome.
Subs Not Used: Margetson, Cox, Ricketts.

Booked: Whitley, Jerome.

Att: 20,324

Ref: T Kettle (Berkshire).