Miller winner enough for Cardiff

MALKY Mackay praised his Cardiff side’s perseverance after they extended their unbeaten run to ten matches in all competitions with a 1-0 victory over Birmingham yesterday.

Cardiff worked tirelessly to carve out only a handful of chances over 90 attritional minutes at the Cardiff City Stadium.

However, Kenny Miller’s second-half strike secured three npower Championship points for the hosts, leaving Mackay delighted with his players’ attitude and application.

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“We were playing a team today who were organised, disciplined and experienced,” he said. “I’m delighted with the clean sheet – three in a week – so we’re building confidence.”

The victory propelled Cardiff back into third place. Despite welcoming 12 new players during the summer Mackay said he felt the Bluebirds have progressed as a unit quicker than he had hoped.

“You’ve got to work hard on the training pitch to make it work quickly and to that extent we’ve clicked a little quicker than I thought we would as a team,” he said.

All the major match action was packed into a five-minute spell in the second period.

Miller capitalised on casual defending by centre-back Pablo Ibanez to fire beneath keeper Boaz Myhill after 68 minutes, just five minutes after the visitors had been reduced to 10 men following the dismissal of Curtis Davies after he brought down Miller when the Scot was through on goal.