If Cardiff’s sojourn in the Premier League is to last, they need to find a goalscoring solution and fast. For the second successive match, they fired blanks but earned their first point of the season after Neil Etheridge saved Kenedy’s stoppage-time penalty to prevent 10-man Newcastle from smuggling a cruel victory.This stadium proved something of a fortress for Cardiff last season, having won eight of their previous 10 matches, but in their first top-flight match here since May 2014, the crucial finishing touches were missing in an otherwise slick performance. For Rafael Benítez, it was a miserable day at the office, underlined by the substitute Isaac Hayden’s straight red card for a challenge on the impressive Josh Murphy. Continue readingreadfullarticle
