Jak Alnwick: Hamstring injury rules out Cardiff keeper for season

Cardiff were without several players for the Hull game, with centre-back Dimitrios Goutas suspended following his red card at Plymouth and on-loan attacking midfielder Will Alves ruled out after sustaining an injury during the same game.

Club captain Joe Ralls had already injured his calf, fellow midfielder David Turnbull is a long-term absentee, centre-back Jasper Daland is sidelined with a cut to his leg and midfielder Aaron Ramsey was unavailable as he is only able to play one game a week as he manages his workload after a long lay-off.

“Will Alves took a whack on his knee against Plymouth and it swelled up. We’re managing that and hopefully that’s not too serious,” Riza added.

“Joe Ralls pulled his calf before the Plymouth game, hence why we couldn’t get him on and why Rambo [Ramsey] had to play 100 minutes. I think that’s two or three weeks [for Ralls].

“Joel Bagan managed to get himself on the bench today. We were a bit concerned about how tight his hamstring was. We managed that for him to be on the bench and come on, which is positive.

“Rambo played 100 minutes so to ask him to be involved [against Hull] would have been asking too much.”