Starting with the manager position:
"I really don't know what to say about it," Riza said when asked about the lack of clarity and communication from the top over the ongoing manager search.
"The fans are frustrated, want clarity and I’m sure they’ll get it at some time. I can’t really over-elaborate on it because I don't really know myself. I’m just trying to do the best job I can and it is important to me the fans are happy. I'm hoping over this period they will be as happy as they can be with what we give them.
“I always talk with Mr Tan, Ken (Choo) and Mehmet (Dalman). It's more about what we are doing, how we approach games. I do it off my own back so they know what we’re doing. It's like having a director of football who you speak to regularly, they feed back what they’re thinking and you listen to what they have to say respectfully.
"The talks have been the same. 'How's it going? How's the players? How's the environment?' To me it's all the same, we are doing out job.
"I’m very comfortable in what I’m doing, I’m happy, the players are happy, the proof of that is (evident) with whatever players you speak to. But we all know, if you lose a game... what's difficult for me is that we haven't won a game since before I took over and if I lose a game it's like, 'You're not good enough, you're too young, you haven't got enough experience. So I try to come away from that and do the best I can do - because that's not the case, but I understand where the fans are coming from.
"All I want them to be is sure we are doing everything we can do to make sure the team is in a good place to perform.
“The pressure is always on to have to win. If you don’t it’s easy for people to say you’re not good enough or you've done something wrong. The flipside of that is if you win two games, then it's 'OK you've won against Plymouth and Portsmouth', without being disrespectful to them. 'He should have won them, it's an easy game for Cardiff', that’s how people may think. We know that's not the case, because every game in the Championship is as tough as the other.
"It is really difficult, but I know how difficult it is to win games in the Championship, especially in the position we are in. It’s frustrating and there is an element of pressure but that's what we're here for and we’re dealing with that in the right way.
"The players are doing what is asked and performing well. Now, we need to take it to another level and it's getting to the point now where we’ll be difficult to beat.”
On injuries:
“We’ve had a really good international break. We’ve had a little bit of time off, the boys had some time to rest and refresh, because we had a few tough days before that, making sure that we have the numbers in the legs and we’ve got the work in tactically. We’ve had a good, dynamic week and all the boys are back in, working hard and it’s been intense.
“Kion [Etete] is training now. He’s been training every day. We’ve been monitoring him to make sure he’s not doing too much. He should be back in contention in the next week or two.
Isaak [Davies] and Rambo have been doing some running outside. They’re doing well. Rubin [Colwill] and Cian [Ashford] are both fine. We’ve been looking after Ash’s back and he’ll be back in training on Sunday, after the Plymouth game. The boys are all slowly getting back to full fitness."
On Plymouth:
“We’ve watched a lot of Plymouth. They’ve picked up points, especially at home. They’ve got a dynamic frontline and they can cause you problems if you don’t do things properly. We’ll be looking to apply our game and hurt them like we’ve hurt teams in the last few games. We’re looking to continue our run and win games.
“We want to go out and win every game - that’s got to be the approach, that’s football. You don’t go out there to lose or draw, you go out there to win. We’ve worked on a lot of stuff in possession, we’ve worked on a lot of stuff out of possession.
"We’ve done a lot of unit meetings, cluster groups, making sure that we’re working to get those fine details, and it’s been a joy. These next games now, we’ve got Plymouth, Portsmouth and West Brom, and like I said, the approach is to go out there and try to win every game. I think the boys are in a good place to do that."