Let us enjoy our daunting challenge, says Warnock

Cardiff City have scored no goals and collected just two points this season. Yet only now does life become really difficult for manager Neil Warnock.

The next five games are against teams who finished in the top seven in the previous campaign – Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Burnley and Tottenham.

But nothing, not even that daunting schedule, is going to spoil the fun for Warnock. “Let’s enjoy it, that’s what I say,” he said. “If we get nothing out of them, it won’t decide our future.”

Warnock knows results against other teams expected to flirt with the bottom of the table will be crucial, so neither he nor Huddersfield head coach David Wagner can be encouraged by this untidy game between relegation candidates.

The dismissal of Jonathan Hogg meant Cardiff faced 10 men for nearly a third of a game for the second week in a row and, as against Newcastle, they were unable to take advantage.

Warnock said: “You’ve got to score goals to stay up, so we will have to sort the problem out. That could happen overnight. I’ve got players who can score and it’s just a matter of trying to find a formula to get them scoring goals.”

Huddersfield claimed their first point of this season after defeats that were expected against Chelsea and Manchester City. Jonas Lossl, a 13th-minute replacement for injured keeper Ben Hamer, said: “Everybody hoped we were going to get three points here, but after the match went the way it did, we have to be satisfied and to build on what we have now.”