Neil Warnock promised Cardiff City would whip up an atmosphere and they delivered eight minutes from time as Kenneth Zohore’s goal fired his team to within six points of the Championship leaders, Wolverhampton Wanderers. For Warnock, an eighth career promotion is still very much on after his side racked up their fourth league win in 12 days. The numbers continue to make supremely pleasant viewing for a stubborn Cardiff side after stretching their unbeaten run to eight matches in all competitions.
Cardiff are 15 points clear of seventh-place Middlesbrough and that alone is enough, Warnock says, to keep him smiling. “We are nearly there now, in the play-offs,” the Cardiff manager said. “That’s what we have been aiming for right from day one; anything else is a bonus, really.” The winger Junior Hoilett has grander plans and, with Cardiff still to welcome Wolves – who slipped up on Saturday by losing 2-0 at Fulham – here in April, he insists Nuno Espírito Santo’s table-topping side are not out of reach. “We are looking up,” Hoilett said. “Looking down is negative.”
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