3 points vital to Cardiff's promotion hopes

As you can see from the table below, Cardiff are 15 points behind Wolves and 12 behind Birmingham City. We have four games in hand on both of them.

Pld		Home						Away						Overall						Pts	EP
		W	D	L	F	A		W	D	L	F	A		W	D	L	F	A
1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	39		12	5	3	39	21		10	3	6	31	26		22	8	9	70	47		74	+23
2	Birmingham City	39		13	3	3	25	13		7	8	5	21	19		20	11	8	46	32		71	+14
3	Reading	37		12	4	4	39	14		6	6	5	25	21		18	10	9	64	35		64	+29
4	Sheffield United	38		9	5	5	30	21		8	7	4	25	16		17	12	9	55	37		63	+18
5	Burnley	38		11	5	4	36	23		6	5	7	23	29		17	10	11	59	52		61	+7
6	Preston North End	39		14	3	3	31	18		3	6	10	22	32		17	9	13	53	50		60	+3
7	Cardiff City	35		11	4	2	29	12		4	10	4	20	20		15	14	6	49	32		59	+17
8	Swansea City	38		9	9	2	37	20		4	9	5	18	23		13	18	7	55	43		57	+12
9	Bristol City	38		7	9	3	26	19		8	3	8	21	21		15	12	11	47	40		57	+7
10	Ipswich Town	38		6	7	5	23	19		8	5	7	28	24		14	12	12	51	43		54	+8

We will play two of those games in hand in the next 4 days. Today at Ashton Gate against Bristol City and at home to Watford on Wednesday evening.

Draws and defeats are not an option now if we want to challenge for automatic promotion.