Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock felt luck wasn't with them for defeat at Fulham.

Ryan Babel scored with a scorching curler from 25 yards to secure a 1-0 victory and leave City's plight looking increasingly bleak.

Warnock said: "I am disappointed but could not have asked anymore of them. We couldn't have scored if we carried on till Christmas.

"The luck has been against us. On reflection my team selection was wrong, but you can't fault the lads. Who is to stay we are not still in the fight?

"You see the chances, we should score some of those chances. You pay for your finishers in this league, we have never been blessed with that, Emiliano Sala would have been that and that was a big blow."