Cardiff looked to be coasting towards promotion for much of this season, before a run of only two wins from their past eight games caused the nerves to kick in.<\/p>\n
Supporters’ apprehension before this fixture was not helped by the fact the Bluebirds had lost two and drawn one of their previous home games against the three other top-five teams in League One.<\/p>\n
You would not have known it from the way Cardiff started against Bolton, flying out of the traps and putting the away side under intense pressure.<\/p>\n
There were five shots during a frantic opening 15 minutes, with Kellyman and Robertson drawing saves from visiting goalkeeper Jack Bonham.<\/p>\n
Robertson then somehow managed to hit the bar from point-blank range when it looked easier to score.<\/p>\n
Given the sheer volume of chances, it felt like a matter of time before Cardiff eventually broke through.<\/p>\n
And when they finally got that elusive goal, after five hours of waiting, they scored two in two minutes.<\/p>\n
Kellyman got the first, glancing in unmarked from Bagan’s inswinging corner, and Willock applied a slick finishing touch to a Robertson-inspired break for the second.<\/p>\n
Ollie Tanner and Ryan Wintle came close to adding a third, while Bolton barely threatened beyond Dalby’s header which brushed the post.<\/p>\n
With four games left, Steven Schumacher’s men look destined to finish in the play-off spots.<\/p>\n
As for Cardiff, they have five matches remaining to seal automatic promotion. With their 10-point advantage, it should be a formality from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff looked to be coasting towards promotion for much of this season, before a run of only two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525330","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=525330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}