Bluebirds suffering crisis of confidence, admits McNaughton

Kevin McNaughton fears a crisis of confidence is ­threatening to derail Cardiff’s promotion push.

The big-spending Welsh side lie well placed in second spot behind runaway ­Championship leaders QPR.

But a string of poor displays has seen City – rocked by injuries to strikers Craig Bellamy and Michael Chopra – win just one of the last four games. And Scottish ­international McNaughton admits the ­Bluebirds are in danger of slipping out of contention unless they rediscover their form.

“We’re just not firing on full cylinders,” he said. “We haven’t put a good performance in for a few weeks. We seem to be playing the easy option too much and it has affected our ­confidence.

“It doesn’t take much to fall down that table so we need to sort things out as soon as possible.”