Cardiff City manager Sabri Lamouchi:
"I'm so proud of the players. It's unbelievable what they've done this week, taking maximum points from the two games.
"You could see we played with so much more confidence after the win at Birmingham but we couldn't find that last pass.
"But we were so focused right to the last minute. We didn't panic, we created a lot and deserved the three points."
Reading manager Paul Ince:
"It was a blatant red card in the first half [for Mark McGuinness' foul] and that would have changed the game but the referee has bottled it.
"There has to be VAR in the Championship because if this was the Premier League that would always be a red card.
"The referee has made a massive mistake tonight and I've seen enough of those from our players.
"We have to also look at ourselves because we were poor from the first minute to the 95th, we looked tired, out-of-sorts and I was dumbfounded by some of their decisions."