Cardiff City 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday: Wintle's injury-time penalty earns Bulut first league win

Cardiff City boss Erol Bulut earned his first Championship win in dramatic fashion as Ryan Wintle’s 97th-minute penalty sealed a 2-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday.

Barry Bannan looked to have broken Bluebird hearts with a fine curled effort after Ike Ugbo had given the hosts the lead, but Wintle showed nerves of steel as he stepped up and buried the penalty to send the Cardiff City Stadium into raptures.

After taking just one point from their opening three league fixtures, Cardiff went into the game knowing that they had to start getting wins on the board and faced a Wednesday side who were bottom of the Championship pile with no points to their name.

Bulut made three changes to the team that started in the 2-1 defeat to Leicester last weekend, with summer signings Manolis Siopsis and Yakou Meite making their first starts and Perry Ng, who signed a new contract with the club earlier this week, returning to the XI

It was the new starters who got off to the brightest start, in fact, as an Aaron Ramsey corner in the second minute fell to Siopsis, who dragged his shot just wide from the edge of the box.

Meite too looked threatening early on, as he made some surging runs down the wing with the Wednesday defenders struggling to control his pace and power.

Cardiff enjoyed plenty of the ball in the opening exchanges and soon went in search of goals as Ng and Ramsey tried to get things moving with a series of well-worked passes into the area, only for them to be scrambled away.

The Bluebirds got their first real chance to break the deadlock after quarter of an hour, as Meite - who won the afternoon-long physical battle with Wednesday’s Bambo Diaby - did brilliantly well to find Callum O’Dowda in the area.

The Irishman swung at it but