{"id":484287,"date":"2026-02-22T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:45:07","slug":"cardiff-city-have-your-say-are-you-concerned-about-plymouth-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484287\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City: Have your say &#8211; Are you concerned about Plymouth defeat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff City&#8217;s unbeaten 2026 came to an end in dramatic style on Saturday, as they were thumped 5-2 away at a resurgent Plymouth Argyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defeat for the Bluebirds ended a run of 12 games unbeaten in League One, and saw their lead at the top of the table reduced to one point after Lincoln City&#8217;s win at Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brian Barry-Murphy&#8217;s side still hold an 11-point advantage over Bolton Wanderers in third, though Stockport have a game in hand over Cardiff and are just two points further adrift in fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Cardiff are still in control of their own destiny with a healthy cushion over the play-off places, the manner of Saturday&#8217;s defeat at Home Park has left some fans concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But are you concerned? Is this the start of a difficult period for Cardiff? Or is this just a small bump in what has &#8211; for the most part &#8211; been a smooth ride back to the Championship for the Bluebirds?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/send\/u192437550\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Let us know your thoughts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff City&#8217;s unbeaten 2026 came to an end in dramatic style on Saturday, as they were thumped 5-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-484287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}