Mission accomplished as Sabri keeps Cardiff up

Last updated : 01 May 2023 By Michael Morris

Cardiff City boss Sabri Lamouchi after the 2 - 1 defeat to Huddersfield:

"It is not exactly how we want to finish our season but, as I said to the players, one month ago… we would have paid to be safe before this game.

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"Of course we are not happy, but our goal was to stay in the Championship and Cardiff deserve to be in the Championship, so job done.

"At the beginning of the season there were 17 young players, and I'm the third manager [but] we made it, we saved the club.

"It is a massive achievement. Three months ago I signed for this massive club and said there is enough quality to stay in the Championship and we did it."

Neil Warnock

"We deserved to win in the end… needing one point [to stay up] is a lot better than needing 10 points like we did three weeks ago.

"It was great for me, the fans giving me a clap all around the ground. It was quite emotional as we had some great times here at Cardiff City. It's nice they are safe as well.

"I really give the lads credit as we were in a tough position a few weeks ago with our fixture list.

"If we had only got a point today we would have put pressure on ourselves and be asking a lot. I always thought it would go down to Reading on the final day of the season and it still might... but hopefully we can get a point against Sheffield United."