Dave Jones has warned Nottingham Forest that his players are "on fire" as they head into Sunday's televised Championship clash.
The Cardiff manager said: "We've been able to score from different situations - long throws, corners, free kicks - we're working at all aspects of it. At the moment, they are on fire, and they have to continue that."
The Bluebirds go into Sunday's match having won four and drawn one of their last five matches, a spell that has seen them smash in 17 goals with only five in reply.
Dave said: "When everyone is full of confidence, they'll try things that don't normally come off - a flick or a trick or a stepover. There is no magic formula. Everybody is working hard on the training field. When you're struggling to score you play safety and we're trying to get them out of it. We tell the players to have a go for it, and if it comes off, fine. If it doesn't we'll try again and again.
"Chops hasn't scored for a couple of games, but goals are coming from all areas. That's great because we're not relying on just one person, and Chops is a massive influence who creates for others. That situation is better than just one person scoring because it takes pressure off that striker. Everybody is chipping in at the moment.
"I hear people saying that Jay should be scoring more goals. I had a similar player to him when Nathan Blake was with me at Wolves. Players like them are the figureheads, a lot of balls go via them and people feed off that type of striker. Jay is not as prolific as Chops or Ross but he helps them become prolific with what he does for the team. He's working for the team and that's what it's all about.
Chris Gunter, who left Cardiff for Spurs for a reported £2m in January 2008, is due to return with Forest on Sunday, and Dave said: "Chrissie was a young player who left this club because we had to let him go.
"And it's not just young players. We lost people like Roger Johnson and Glen Loovens because that's what we had to do. It's easy to say we shouldn't let them go, but with the financial situation at the club, we had to let them go because otherwise we couldn't move forward.
"It doesn't mattrer who you are, if the big clubs come calling it's impossible to keep them with Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool or Manchester United knocking at the door. You might as well ask the right price and let them go. It goes for any player. If you have a really unsettled player at the club, you'll never get the best out of them so why try?
"Take Aaron Ramsey - should he have stayed here and forgotten Arsenal? Stay here and not play in the Champions League and try and win the Premier league? We would love to have kept the players but it doesn't work that way. Even clubs in the Premier find it difficult. Everton are a biggish club, but they couldn't keep Joleon Lescott once Man City got their claws in. Everton had to name their price and let him go."
Dave also revealed that
Kevin McNaughton will be back in training next week, although fellow full back Tony Capaldi needs to rest a back injury. Stephen McPhail trained on Friday after suffering a dead leg and loan star Kelvin Etuhu is expected back during the November international week.
