Cardiff draws 1-1 with Stoke City in Premier League

Welsh side Cardiff City has claimed a vital point in their fight against relegation after drawing 1-1 with Stoke City in the Premier League on Saturday at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Although Cardiff is well clear of the relegation tussle and out of the fight for European places, the visitors still had the carrot of needing five more points to record their highest Premier League total.

According to the BBC, Marko Arnautovic's penalty opened the scoring for Stoke following Kim Bo-Kyung's foul on Peter Odemwingie, following which Peter Whittingham levelled from the spot in the second half after Steven Nzonzi's trip on Fraizer Campbell.

The report mentioned that Cardiff's Juan Cala had a header disallowed for offside before Stoke's Jonathan Walters struck the bar.

The Welsh side might have hoped to spend their week focusing on the visit of Stoke, but instead it was dominated by claims that their line-up had been leaked to Crystal Palace the day before the south Londoners inflicted a damaging 3-0 defeat on Cardiff, the report added.