By Jake Hastings
Cardiff City caretaker boss Omer Riza claimed he is still in the dark about his future after his side fell to a 3-1 defeat against Blackburn Rovers.
Riza presided over a six-game unbeaten run before back-to-back defeats against Luton Town last Tuesday, and then Rovers.
After Saturday’s game, Riza was asked whether he had any update on his future and if he was worried about his position.
“I don’t know,” he replied.
“What I’m worried about and what I’ve always been worried about it is not winning games, the pressure is there when you don’t win games.
“I think we’re on the right track, you know we’re not going to win every game, but we can’t lose like that”.
Cardiff were completely outplayed in the first-half and Riza commented on how unhappy he was with his side’s first-half performance.
“For me, first half was unacceptable, I told the boys that,” he said.
“You can’t start games slowly; you can’t start games thinking you’ll have loads of time on the ball and thinking everything’s going to be easy.
“We lacked intensity, we lacked urgency”.
Cardiff managed to get a goal back in the second half to make it 2-1 but went on to concede a third. Riza said he liked the reaction from his side after half-time.
“We were our own worst enemies in the first half, but in the second half I thought the reaction was better, I thought we tried to pressurise them a little bit more and have the ball a lot more,” he said.
The Cardiff interim boss questioned the quality of his side when they had the ball.
“When we had the ball and delivered it into the box, was it with quality, were our set pieces with quality? Not really,” he said.
“We were pushing for the second goal, the crowd were up and then we get hit with a sucker-punch again because of the things we haven’t done well, which is not recover, track runners and stop the opposition from scoring.
“So, disappointing overall and if there ‘re a few things I’ll take out the game it is the fact that second half it was better.”
After Cardiff beat Norwich last weekend it was reported that talks had gone well and were in a positive state between Riza and the Cardiff board, but a week later after two losses Riza didn’t seem overly positive.
“They are going to make a decision eventually, we just have to wait,” he said.