Yousef Salech\u2019s 11th league goal of the season ensured Cardiff maintained their three-point lead at the top of the League One table as they completed the double over Stevenage with a 2-1 win at Cardiff City Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Bluebirds had won 1-0 at Stevenage three weeks earlier with an 85th-minute goal from Callum Robinson. This time it was Salech who broke their hearts with his goal in the 82nd minute that completed a second-half comeback.<\/p>\n
Cardiff were chasing a seventh straight home league win in a run stretching back to September, while Stevenage were hoping to improve on a run of only two wins in their past 10 games in all competitions.<\/p>\n
Cardiff dominated the first half, yet it was the visitors who almost drew first blood when Harvey White hit the crossbar with a third-minute free-kick. The home side fired in 11 shots before the break but none of them were on target.<\/p>\n
Then Phoenix Patterson gave Stevenage the lead with a superb strike from the edge of the area in the 57th minute. They held the lead for seven minutes before Robinson levelled at the second attempt from six yards out.<\/p>\n
Salech then grabbed the winner to round off a great first half of the season for Cardiff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yousef Salech\u2019s 11th league goal of the season ensured Cardiff maintained their three-point lead at the top of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}