Birmingham City 0-2 Cardiff City: Lift-off for Sabri Lamouchi as late goals earn Bluebirds first win in three months

Sabri Lamouchi has lift-off as Cardiff City manager thanks to a stunning Perry Ng free-kick and a lovely Callum Robinson solo effort which helped down Birmingham City late on at St. Andrew's.

It's been three long months since the Bluebirds tasted the sweet nectar of three points, but this trip home from the Midlands will be sweeter than ever.

In an attritional match, for the most part devoid of any quality, it was Ng who provided the blockbuster moment when he burst the net with a fantastic strike from 20 yards out with just minutes left on the clock.

Then, when the game was ticking down, and Birmingham threw everything at the visitors, it was Robinson who popped up at the top of the pitch before he jinked past three players and smashed it into the roof of the net. Fourteen games without a win, well, that clock can be reset.

Lamouchi will hope this is only the beginning, of course. They are 14 more cup finals left to play, remember.

The Bluebirds' bench was bolstered by the pre-match signing of Connor Wickham, who was announced just three hours before the match got under way.

But City's starting XI all pointed towards a drastic change in both formation and style. With Ng coming in as the third centre-back and Kion Etete partnering Sory Kaba up top, Cardiff looked to be opting for the mist direct of long-ball tactics.

And it's fair to say, they did not disappoint in that regard.

The visitors, though, to their credit, looked the better of the two sides. They were hard to break down when Birmingham had the ball and Kaba and Etete worked the Blues' centre-halves over at times.

What it did mean, though, was that there was very little real quality on show and chances on goal. The strikers fed off scraps, really, as evidenced by