\n Lewis Wing gave the Royals the lead on 38 minutes, before second-half strikes from \u00a0Omari Kellyman and Yousef Salech gave the Bluebirds the victory.\n<\/p>\n
\n The result means Reading have now only won two of their last 12 in the league, despite having 26 shots on goal, with 10 being on target.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Royals remain in the relegation zone, and Hunt said: \u201cI thought we played so well, bar probably a 10 to 15-minute spell in the second half.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I thought we were the better team by far, and they\u2019re top of the league.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have to do that week in, week out now. We\u2019ve got to put in that performance and create those chances every week, and we\u2019ve got to be ruthless in both boxes. It\u2019s as simple as that.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019re just disappointed that we didn\u2019t come home with something from the game.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe had 18 shots inside the box, four one-on-ones today. We\u2019ve got to keep going and keep creating the chances because that\u2019s what we want to do. Good teams will create chances.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think they had 10 shots, three on target, which is the disappointing part in the second half, as two of them are goals.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo we\u2019ve got to toughen up and make sure we keep going. If we play like that over the next three or four weeks, I think we can put points on the board.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Cardiff head coach Brian Barry-Murphy believes it will benefit his players to \u201cfeel that excitement\u201d at moving to the top of League One following the win.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cIt felt like a pretty chaotic game, and you could see what the victory meant to the players at the end\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m very pleased that we managed to get that win and to move to the top of the table.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think for everybody who is involved in the club, it\u2019s very natural to look towards the table, and when I was younger as a player, I used to speak about not looking at the table and ignoring it.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut really it\u2019s very unproductive because it\u2019s very exciting and the players want to feel as if they\u2019re going for something and they believe they are good enough to challenge at the top end of the table.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think it\u2019s really good for the players to feel that excitement of being at the top end of the table and to look forward to what we can do for the rest of the season.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cInside the dressing room, we have to obviously focus on how we\u2019re going to maintain that with performances that are better than today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Wing gave the Royals the lead on 38 minutes, before second-half strikes from \u00a0Omari Kellyman and Yousef…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}