Junior Hoilett strike inspires Cardiff to crucial victory over West Ham

This felt like the shot in the arm that Cardiff City’s season so badly needed. Reeling from three straight defeats and a week that their manager, Neil Warnock, described as their worst in the Premier League, Cardiff produced a performance full of endeavour and grit to lift the doom and gloom and revive their survival hopes.

With Southampton beating Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton winning at Crystal Palace, results elsewhere did not go in their favour – Cardiff remain in the relegation zone – but in many ways that made this victory all the more important. Junior Hoilett scored the first and also had a hand in the second, which was stabbed over the line by Victor Camarasa. Oumar Niasse could – and should – have added a third.

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