Cardiff City 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: Late Mark Harris stunner earns Mark Hudson his first win as Bluebirds boss

Mark Hudson earned his first win as interim Cardiff City manager thanks to a late piledriver from Mark Harris and an injury-time penalty save from Ryan Allsop against Blackburn Rovers.

It looked for all the money in the world that Cardiff would draw this one, despite being utterly dominant in almost every aspect. The clock ticked towards the allotted 90 minutes and that dreaded lack of cutting edge appeared to be their undoing once again.

But up stepped Harris, who drove a stinging effort into the top corner of Rovers' net, but it wasn't over there. Allsop, as the clock went into injury time, was adjudged to have brought down Dominic Hyam in the Cardiff box. George Hirst, though, saw his spot-kick denied.

The stadium erupted and all three points, deservedly, were City's.

The Bluebirds started the game like a house on fire. It was about as positive a start as you could have wished for.

Callum Robinson enjoyed an early hat-trick of chances, such was City's dominance, but as has typically been the case this season, those chances did not translate into goals.

Robinson's best opportunity early on came when Sheyi Ojo's sliding tackle dispossessed Lewis Travis before the ball trickled into Robinson's path. The forward skinned one defender, but his shot from close range was blocked by Dominic Hyam sprawling back to his own goal line.

Mahlon Romeo was taken off midway through the first half, a move which saw Perry Ng shift to right-back, with many thinking it might quell City's danger on the attack. It didn't.

Cardiff continued to bang on the door, but it wasn't budging. It was Robinson again who had Cardiff's last big opportunity of the first half after Andy Rinomhota was brought down on the edge of the Rovers' box. The striker's