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The biggest compliment you can pay Cardiff City after their opening win of the season against Norwich is that so many players were contenders for man-of-the-match.

Ryan Allsop was different class in goal, Ryan Wintle bossed proceedings in the middle of the park and Cedric Kipre, WalesOnline's star man against Norwich City, was outstanding.

But the official award went to Jamilu Collins, who, to be fair, was many supporters' pick of the bunch against the Canaries, if social media is anything to go by.

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While many players in Steve Morison's new-look squad are relative unknowns to Cardiff fans, Collins will have been the player supporters knew the least about heading into the opening game of the season. Well, we are one game in and it's fair to assume that Bluebirds know exactly what he is about.

The physically-imposing left-back embarked on mazy, marauding runs up and down City's left-hand-side the whole 90 minutes, dovetailing nicely with fellow newbie Callum O'Dowda out on that wing. He was also awkward and difficult to deal with; the ball would bounce off him at awkward angles and he would always keep it in play even when the opposition thought they had the respite of him mis-controlling one into touch.

He had a few hair-raising moments running back towards his own goal, clearly determined not to just hoof the ball anywhere and wanting to adhere to the new passing mantra strictly. The fleet-footed Allsop got him out of a jam once or twice in that regard.

"In Germany, it's a good league. But the intensity here is really high! Every two seconds it's like 'attack, attack!'" Collins said after the match.