Cardiff City 1-2 Huddersfield Town: Second-half implosion sees Bluebirds' last home game end in defeat

A second-half capitulation from Cardiff City saw their home campaign end with a whimper as Neil Warnock's Huddersfield Town ran out 2-1 winners in the Welsh capital.

In a quite frankly awful game of football, it took two individual mistakes from Cardiff for the game to slip away from them in the space of eight minutes. Joseph Hungbo capitalised on a terrible backpass, while Jack Simpson put the ball into his own net under pressure from Matty Pearson.

One glimmer of positivity was Isaak Davies scoring his first of the season, a lovely one, too. He backheeled Jaden Philogene's cross to reduce the deficit, but it wasn't enough.

Cardiff are safe from relegation, but that woeful home form will have to be reversed next season.

Warnock's side, as you might expect, turned up ready to put in a performance, with survival on the line, and less than two minutes into the tie they registered their first shot on goal. Brahima Diarra set up ex-Bluebird Danny Ward, who hit his effort first time from 20 yards out, but Jack Alnwick saved comfortably.

Despite being given the afternoon to rest up after his recent workload, Sory Kaba found himself on the pitch after less than 13 minutes after Kion Etete was injured in a challenge with Jonathan Hogg.

Cardiff were reduced to half chances in the main. Jaden Philogene and Romaine Sawyers both connecting badly with efforts from 25 yards out, typifying the lack of quality in the opening exchanges between the two sides.

Philogene was just about the only player to worry the visiting fans when Kaba found him with a deft ball into the box, but the Aston Villa loanee rippled the side-netting after he had chipped goalkeeper Lee Nicholls.

The Terriers continued to trouble City, though, indeed, were it not