Cardiff City 1-0 Birmingham City: Jaden Philogene bags first goal to get Bluebirds back to winning ways

Cardiff City got back to winning ways courtesy of a maiden Bluebirds goal from Jaden Philogene which downed Birmingham City 1-0 in the Welsh capital.

The Bluebirds displayed some swashbuckling stuff at times, which was really pleasing on the eye, but left a huge number of goals out there owing to some terrible missed chances.

Fortunately for them, though, Philogene's first-half strike was enough to get Steve Morison's men back on the victory trail, with a bit of a swagger, too.

Cardiff started the game in blistering fashion. Pinging off passes like bullets out of a machine gun and making all the right decisions with the ball at their feet. In the baking sun, they would have spoke about wanting the visitors to do their lion's share of chasing shadows and that's just what they did.

And all that positive and exciting build-up play looked to have manifested itself in the first goal of the game when Callum O'Dowda fizzed in a low cross to Romaine Sawyers, but his first-time shot was saved well before Max Watters failed to bundle in the rebound.

But it was all positive from a Cardiff standpoint. The midfield dominated and both wing-backs were sensational, running like their lives depended on it, overlapping their wingers and defending their own goal with aplomb.

It was O'Dowda, though, who made the goal. He was played in with an inch-perfect pass from Ryan Wintle and the winger rifled a cross across the six-yard box. It whizzed past Watters but Philogene was there to tap in the easiest of chances.

Birmingham fired very few shots off in the first half, however they sent a warning to the hosts when Troy Deeney sent through Scott Hogan, only for the striker to be felled at the last second by a fantastic Jamilu Collins tackle.

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