Lawrence: I Want More Points

Following Cardiff City's 2-0 win over Reading at Ninian Park this afternoon, manager Lennie Lawrence had this to say:

“It’s been a good week and we carried it on from Tuesday night, very pleasing. That was a committed performance right across the side. The save that Neil Alexander gave in the last few moments was great; it would have been a shame if we’d lost our clean sheet. If you’d wandered in off the street and didn’t know who was who you’d not have said we were the ones fourth from bottom.

“Kitson has done well for Reading this season and for people to compare him with Lee is unfair and an attempt to destabilise use, it won’t work. Back then we had Peter Thorne and Robert Earnshaw and they were on fire, we brought in Alan Lee as competition for Thorne, plain and simple. The Kitson thing was miles away from that and is completely unfair to compare the two.

“It was not Kitson’s day today.

“We’re not safe yet but I’d still be looking for more points. If we beet Gillingham and QPR then hopefully we’d finish above Plymouth and Leicester, just a few places off where we finished last season.

“Neil Ardley has made a huge impact and I’d like to keep him. His delivery for the first goal was fantastic. We’ve looked at how they defend those set pieces and Ardley’s delivery put them in two minds.

“Cameron Jerome is still a young boy learning his trade in the team. He’s has given everyone a huge lift and we deserved the win however you dress it up, it takes some pressure off. There wasn’t best part of a division between us and Reading.”