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City boss Lennie Lawrence has looked back on Sunday's win at Stoke and looks forward to the second leg.

"If you'd have said 2-1 before the game we would have taken that. Anything other than a win would have been a small injustice. I think that the scoreline reflected the game. I didn't think in fairness to Stoke we were two goals better. I said just imagine it's a one-off game, forget about the second leg. Stoke threw the kitchen sink at us in the last 10 minutes but that's always the danger. The key could be who gets the first goal on Wednesday. If we score first they've got to make a super-human effort. If they score first the dilemma is do you chase the game or do you sit and wait and show discipline? That's a hard one. If there's no goals at all then you're still faced with the same dilemma."

Potters boss Gudjon Thordarson said

"It was never ever going to be easy down there. And we haven't helped ourselves. With being a goal down to them down there it's going to be even harder. But we got a goal back and after we were two down we didn't have anything to lose. I think we proved at the end we're capable of putting Cardiff under pressure. People will think it's job done for them but we've still got 90 minutes to play. We only need to get one goal back and then after that we only need to get another one."