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The ref has blown his whistle for full time.
Leon McKenzie is booked for dissent.
Goal!! Coventry have scored with Scott Dann putting it in the back of the net.
Ross McCormack takes a penalty for Cardiff and scores!.
Clinton Morrison is being taken off, Leon Best has come on in his place.
Coventry are replacing Jay Tabb with Michael Mifsud.
The referee has booked Aron Gunnarsson.
The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 0.
Elliott Ward is being taken off, Marcus Hall has come on in his place.
The ref has blown his whistle for half time.
Goal!! Cardiff have scored with Jay Bothroyd putting it in the back of the net.
The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.
Cardiff City edged out Coventry City 2-1 at Ninian Park despite a late rally by the visitors. The Bluebirds showed two changes, with Mark Kennedy and Stephen McPhail coming into the side beaten by Birmingham. After a frantic start in the wet conditions, it was Michael Doyle who went closest for the visitors in the seventh minute with a low shot that Tom Heaton dived to gather. Freddy Eastwood almost opened the scoring in the 15th minute when he flashed in a point-blank header, but Heaton was well placed to save. Two minutes later Clinton Morrison went through only to drag his shot wide of target. Cardiff went ahead in spectacular fashion in the 31st minute. Roger Johnson won a defensive header to put Peter Whittingham in possession. He drilled a pass to Jay Bothroyd, who raced on before sliding his shot beyond Keiren Westwood in the visitors goal for his first goals in Bluebirds' colours. Joe Ledley should have doubled the lead four minutes later, but he headed a Whittingham cross high over the crossbar from close in. Marcus Hall replaced Elliott Ward at the interval and his misplaced header in the 47th minute went straight to Darren Purse, but his goalbound strike was pushed over by Westwood. Coventry thought they had equalised in the 56th minute when Eastwood had the ball in the net, but referee Roger East disallowed the goal after talking to his assistant, who had earlier flagged for a Coventry infringement. Bothroyd had a header saved by Westwood's legs as the Bluebirds pressed hard for a clinching second goal and when he slipped Ledley through in the 85th minute, the Cardiff midfielder was brought down in the area by Isaac Osbourne. Ross McCormack stepped up to rifle home his fourth spot-kick of the season. Scott Dann reduced the deficit in the 89th minute to leave the Bluebirds hanging on in the five minutes of added-on time.
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