Cardiff survive Forest scare

Cardiff continued their unbeaten start under Neil Warnock, but had to survive a late fightback to beat Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

Forest had dominated possession in the first 20 minutes of the game, but went a goal down after 29 minutes when an unmarked Aron Gunnarsson headed home Peter Whittingham’s corner.

Just 10 minutes later, Cardiff had the ball in the net when Joe Ralls finished off a move created by a mistake from Forest left-back Armand Traore and the visitors continued in confident form until the final minute of the game, when Henri Lansbury slammed home a penalty following a foul from Gunnarsson.

After a tumultuous week within the hierarchy at the City Ground, on the pitch, Forest appeared to be the polar opposite; their desire to keep the ball was so great that at one point they had almost 75 per cent possession, but there was no goal as a reward for their efforts.

Perhaps the peak of their dominance came after 24 minutes when Forest captain, Chris Cohen, rolled a free-kick in the direction of Lansbury. The midfielder took a stride to the right and smashed a shot towards Ben Amos; if anything, it had too much bend on it as it dropped just wide of the right-hand post.

That seemed to be a turning point in the game and Cardiff – who had seen precious little of the ball – took the lead just five minutes later through Iceland international, Gunnarsson.

Ralls had earned a corner after squeezing in a cross from a tight angle; …

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