Cardiff City marked their first home game since the disappearance of record signing Emiliano Sala in a plane over the English Channel with a series of emotional tributes to the missing striker.
Sala and pilot David Ibbotson remain missing after the Piper Malibu plane carrying them disappeared on January 21, two days after the 28-year-old signed for Cardiff in a £15million deal from French club Nantes.
Inside the match programme for Saturday's Premier League game with Bournemouth, the club statement read: "The news we received 12 days shook Cardiff City Football Club to its very core.
"Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson remain missing and, during this most testing and emotional time, we continue to pray for them and their families.
"We have been profoundly moved by the goodwill and love that the football world has shared in support of our club, FC Nantes and the families of the missing men."
Cardiff captain Sol Bamba and his Bournemouth counterpart Andrew Surman led the players out with floral tributes in hand.
The flowers were laid on the halfway line before the players gathered on the centre circle to observe what Cardiff had described as a "minute's reflection".
Supporters held cards aloft behind one of the goals to spell out Sala's name in the colours of Argentina.
Many fans were wearing scarves combining the colours of Cardiff and Sala's former club Nantes.
On a difficult day for Cardiff, the Bluebirds got off to the right start on the pitch as Bobby Reid scored a fifth-minute penalty.
Following the goal, Reid and his Cardiff team-mates held aloft a shirt with a picture of Sala's face on it, while Bluebirds boss Neil Warnock - who admitted he considered retiring following Sala's disappearance - was visibly emotional following the tribute.
An underwater search for wreckage from the missing plane will start on Sunday, according to the marine explorer leading efforts to find the wreckage.
David Mearns said crews will be looking for a “debris field” using sonar and remote-controlled vehicles, operating 24 hours a day.
In a press conference on Saturday, he said the families of Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson are “devastated” and "we are trying to provide an answer to them."
He added: "Tomorrow the weather will be good. We will be able to operate tomorrow."
Additional reporting by the Press Association.
