Cardiff City 5-0 Plymouth Argyle: Breathtaking Bluebirds hammer Pilgrims in stunning display

Cardiff City turned in their best performance of the season to lift them off the bottom of the Championship table thanks to a 5-0 hammering of 10-man Plymouth Argyle.

The hosts played the Pilgrims off the park before Ibrahim Cissoko's 41st-minute red, with Alex Robertson having netted his first league goal and Rubin Colwill also getting on the scoresheet.

Cardiff then ran riot against Plymouth, with Anwar El Ghazi tapping home his first goal for the club before Callum Robinson took his chance well to continue his fine form.

Chris Willock rounded off the scoring in the final 10 minutes and in doing so, strengthened interim boss Omer Riza's claims to be handed the keys permanently.

Riza selected a bold line-up to take on the Pilgrims, including a midfield axis of David Turnbull and Robertson as the Bluebirds attempted to impart their attacking game on the visitors.

But it was Argyle, whose manager Wayne Rooney was forced to watch from the stands owing to his red card in their last game against Blackburn Rovers, who had the first big chance. Former Swansea pair Morgan Whittaker and Michael Obafemi combined, with the latter played clean through on goal before slotting his gilt-edged chance wide of the upright.

After that, though, it was all Cardiff, who produced their most scintillating performance of the season by far. Colwill, Ollie Tanner and Callum Robinson formed a potent trio at the prong of City's attack and it yielded great reward.

It was puppet-master Colwill who architected Cardiff's first on 14 minutes. He skinned his man on the edge of the box and lay a soft pass off to Robertson, who expertly whipped it into the far corner with aplomb from 20 yards out.

It settled the hosts even further and they started to play