Cardiff City Mad
10-04-16, 13:50
Russel Slade not giving up play off hopes despite having 'a mountain to climb'.
<p><img style="float: right;" title="C:WindowsTempphp4145.tmp" src="http://pictures.footymad.net/upload/120/885247-1.jpg" alt="C:WindowsTempphp4145.tmp" width="300" height="300" />Emerson Hyndman marked his 20th birthday with the last-gasp winner after Scott Parker's goal had cancelled out Lex Immers' first-half opener for Cardiff.</p>
<p>It left Fulham on the brink of safety and seventh-placed Cardiff now have it all to do to extend their season as they remain five points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday with a significantly worse goal difference as well.</p>
<p>While Slade is not throwing the towel in, he concedes the result is a blow to their play-off ambitions.</p>
<p>He said: "We will keep going to the end. It's a setback and we would have taken a precious point.</p>
<p>"Every game at this stage is important. We've given ourselves a mountain to climb but there's still time to go.</p>
<p>"A draw would have been a fair result. We took a few risks to get the three points and when you do that you leave yourself open a little bit.</p>
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<p>"But they've scored as a result of a corner where we've not defended well enough.</p>
<p>"It's very frustrating that we've not been able to bridge that gap today and of course we're disappointed with that.</p>
<p>"We've had some real high level performances recently but we didn't quite reach that level today.</p>
<p>"But where we want to be it's certainly not impossible. We'll keep going. We've got a home game next week and all we can control is what's in front of us."</p>
<p>Fulham have now won three league games in a row for the first time since 2012. It looked so different after Immers had headed Aron Gunnarsson's 40th-minute cross home.</p>
<p>Sean Morrison hit the post moments later for the visitors and it proved a turning point as the Welsh side collapsed after the break.</p>
<p>Parker slotted home within minutes of the restart and Fulham looked the more likely scorers before Hyndman celebrated his milestone with a maiden goal late on.</p>
<p>Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic said: "We didn't play a good football game in the first 45 minutes. That could be my mistake, maybe my message was a bit confused.</p>
<p>"The second half was a game we want to play. Today is (Hyndman's) birthday. It's a great present for himself and for all of us in the last moment of the game.</p>
<p>"He's probably one of the more talented players. I am little bit disappointed with myself that I haven't found more minutes for him this season.</p>
<p>"He probably needs to be a little bit stronger for the Championship. But he's a young guy and he will be a very good footballer for us.</p>
<p>"We need to keep going because we've had one perfect week where we've won three games but in front of us is five games more.</p>
<p>"Mathematically, we are 10 points ahead. It's 15 points needed, so we need five points more to be 100 per cent sure."</p>
Cardiff City Mad (http://www.cardiffcity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/highlights_and_reaction_to_citys_defeat_at_fulham_ 885247/index.shtml)
<p><img style="float: right;" title="C:WindowsTempphp4145.tmp" src="http://pictures.footymad.net/upload/120/885247-1.jpg" alt="C:WindowsTempphp4145.tmp" width="300" height="300" />Emerson Hyndman marked his 20th birthday with the last-gasp winner after Scott Parker's goal had cancelled out Lex Immers' first-half opener for Cardiff.</p>
<p>It left Fulham on the brink of safety and seventh-placed Cardiff now have it all to do to extend their season as they remain five points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday with a significantly worse goal difference as well.</p>
<p>While Slade is not throwing the towel in, he concedes the result is a blow to their play-off ambitions.</p>
<p>He said: "We will keep going to the end. It's a setback and we would have taken a precious point.</p>
<p>"Every game at this stage is important. We've given ourselves a mountain to climb but there's still time to go.</p>
<p>"A draw would have been a fair result. We took a few risks to get the three points and when you do that you leave yourself open a little bit.</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tWUbvAsokmg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>"But they've scored as a result of a corner where we've not defended well enough.</p>
<p>"It's very frustrating that we've not been able to bridge that gap today and of course we're disappointed with that.</p>
<p>"We've had some real high level performances recently but we didn't quite reach that level today.</p>
<p>"But where we want to be it's certainly not impossible. We'll keep going. We've got a home game next week and all we can control is what's in front of us."</p>
<p>Fulham have now won three league games in a row for the first time since 2012. It looked so different after Immers had headed Aron Gunnarsson's 40th-minute cross home.</p>
<p>Sean Morrison hit the post moments later for the visitors and it proved a turning point as the Welsh side collapsed after the break.</p>
<p>Parker slotted home within minutes of the restart and Fulham looked the more likely scorers before Hyndman celebrated his milestone with a maiden goal late on.</p>
<p>Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic said: "We didn't play a good football game in the first 45 minutes. That could be my mistake, maybe my message was a bit confused.</p>
<p>"The second half was a game we want to play. Today is (Hyndman's) birthday. It's a great present for himself and for all of us in the last moment of the game.</p>
<p>"He's probably one of the more talented players. I am little bit disappointed with myself that I haven't found more minutes for him this season.</p>
<p>"He probably needs to be a little bit stronger for the Championship. But he's a young guy and he will be a very good footballer for us.</p>
<p>"We need to keep going because we've had one perfect week where we've won three games but in front of us is five games more.</p>
<p>"Mathematically, we are 10 points ahead. It's 15 points needed, so we need five points more to be 100 per cent sure."</p>
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