Two sides with contrasting fortunes this season so far met at Craven Cottage on Wednesday night in the Sky Bet Championship, as Fulham played host to Cardiff City.

The Whites and the Bluebirds both started this campaign with high hopes but it's currently only the former that look like achieving real success this year, with Cardiff right up against it down near the bottom of the table.

The result went true to form, too, as Fulham ran out 2-0 winners against their visitors from the Welsh capital, and here we're taking a look at one winner and one loser from the night in SW6...

Winner - Tom Cairney

It's been a long time coming for Tom Cairney but he is back in the fold playing-wise for Fulham and marked the occasion with a bang.

On at half-time to replace Harrison Reed, Cairney was on the scoresheet around ten minutes later as he lashed home a loose ball on the edge of the box with that famous left foot of his.

It was a great goal and a great moment as he broke the deadlock for the hosts, and surely he has to be the big winner from Wednesday night.

Loser - Mick McCarthy

No real surprises here, unfortunately for McCarthy.

The Cardiff boss made several personnel changes and tweaked his formation too to try and get Cardiff back to winning ways and they actually started decently enough, with Kieffer Moore smashing the ball against the upright from a tight angle in the first half.

They couldn't, though, find a breakthrough and after Cairney's goal a defensive mix-up minutes later saw Aleksandar Mitrovic sweep home and kill the game.

Mick is up against it firmly, and he surely needs to beat Middlesbrough this weekend.