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No More UAE Trip For Woeful Cardif City

Cardiff boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has cancelled his players’ warm-weather training trip to Abu Dhabi following the 4-0 defeat at home to Hull on Saturday.

Solskjaer had planned to take his squad out to the United Arab Emirates for some warm-weather training, but he was so disappointed with the manner of the defeat to Hull that he has called it off.

It was the Bluebirds’ biggest home defeat since losing 4-0 to Cambridge United in April 2000.

They face Spurs next before tough challenges of Liverpool and Everton, as well as a basement scrap with Fulham, in their next four games.

Solskjaer is confident though that Cardiff can escape the drop: “I still think so. We need five wins. We need to find that fifth win that we were hoping was going to be today.

“That means we have to get a win from maybe an away game we didn’t expect to. How often have we seen that in the Premier League, that there’s a surprise result?

“All you can say is these lads, knowing the character of them; they will roll their sleeves up and work as hard as they can to get the points we need.

“They’re never, ever going to lay down and give up. They have been knocked down, but luckily they’ve not landed face down. They’ve landed on their back and that way they can look up.

“That’s the only way that we’re going to get out of this – work hard, work together, stick together and do the right things at the right time. At times, players wanted to do a little bit too much and that’s good.

“You want that enthusiasm to want to make a difference and want to make an impression, but do your job. The enthusiasm was there, the effort was there, but the decision-making wasn’t the best.”