Cardiff City 1-1 Wigan Athletic: Latics hit injury-time equaliser as Bluebirds' winless run stretches to nine

Will Keane struck in the 96th-minute to earn Wigan Athletic a last-gasp draw against Cardiff City and extend the Bluebirds' winless run to nine games in all competitions.

A late Callum O'Dowda goal eight minutes from time initially looked to have proved decisive in what was ultimately a rotten match between the two sides.

But six minutes after the allotted 90, Keane popped up at the back post and smashed home Wigan's late leveller, sucking all the air of optimism out of the stadium.

This was billed as a game Cardiff had to win if they had designs on really pushing up the division and they were so close to doing it. That makes it all the worse.

The game only served to highlight their need for reinforcements at the top end of the pitch - and quickly. That's the only way this situation will be resolved in the short term.

Illness got the better of a number of first-team regulars for this one, with Rubin Colwill out all together and Cedric Kipre and Callum Robinson fit enough only for the bench.

It made for an interesting-looking team from Mark Hudson, but one with enough attacking thrust, one would think, to cause the worst defence in the league some problems. Cardiff's attack is also the worst in the division, mind you.

Mark Harris should have put City ahead with the earliest chance of the game. Ben Amos flapped at a cross and the ball fell into the Welshman's path, however he scuffed his shot from 12 yards out and the goalkeeper could atone for his earlier error.

The opening 45 minutes actually made for dire viewing, with clear-cut chances extremely few and far between after that early Harris opportunity.

If anyone was going to open things up, it looked likely to be Sheyi Ojo and it was he, on the half-hour mark, who whipped