Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan will be in attendance for Mark Hudson's crunch meeting over his future as Bluebirds boss.
The Welsh club put on a fantastic display at the Stadium of Light, despite only beating Sunderland by the marginal scoreline of just 1-0 thanks to Mark Harris' goal. Joe Ralls' early penalty miss was another reason the margin wasn't bigger, mind you.
Nevertheless, it was a hugely-positive display in the north east, just before Hudson is set to meet with the club's owner and board over the permanency of his position.
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Tan is understood to be in the UK on business and is expected to be in Cardiff next week for the first time since May 4, 2019, the Bluebirds' last home game of their Premier League campaign against Crystal Palace. He is also likely to be in attendance when the Bluebirds host Hull on Tuesday evening.
"Yeah, I think he is coming across," Hudson said when asked if Tan would be in attendance at Cardiff next week. "I think everyone will be there, so that should be good.
"It will be nice for the fans and the club to have some clarity and that together approach, which is what everyone wants. Obviously when you win away at Sunderland it's always nice!"
Cardiff were good value for their win, controlling the first hour before Sunderland produced an onslaught late on after the visitors made substitutions.
On the game, interim boss Hudson said: "We dominated the first half, the only thing that was missing was the goal. Second half, we knew they were a good side and we knew we were going to suffer a little bit in certain moments.
"The shape change helped us, we had to defend together and we did that.
"I had full faith in the team. I thought all the attacking players deserved to be on the pitch. I thought we could create and we did that, with the qualities they've all got."
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If Hudson overseeing that performance was timely ahead of meeting Tan, Mark Harris scoring the winning goal just four days before Rob Page names his World Cup squad is just as fitting.
"You want your strikers to score goals. He works so hard for the team, on and off the pitch," he said of Harris. "He missed the one in the first half but I told him it would come. And he made an instinctively good run on the blind side, I'm delighted for him.
"His energy and work ethic is excellent. He has worked so hard this week, so to do it again."
The only downside to the day was the 94th-minute booking of Cedric Kipre following a scuffle with Elliot Embleton. It means the Ivorian is now out of Tuesday's clash with Hull after picking up his fifth yellow of the campaign.
Speaking of his conversation with the referee after the match, Hudson added: "I asked him and he said they came together and there was a bit of grappling. Then, ultimately, they went to floor, which happens, but he booked them both which means Cedric is suspended.
"That gives another opportunity for someone to come in and do well."
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