MY VIEW, AS A RECORD ATTENDANCE TURNED UP,CARDIFF CITY TODAY

My View/Opinion

AS A RECORD ATTENDANCE TURNED UP, CARDIFF CITY BEAT 5TH PLACED DERBY COUNTY

Official attendance at Cardiff City is a record 28,680!

Marshall hardly had a shot to safe as Derby County looked very ordinary for a 5th placed team.

City deserved todays victory and can go to Burnley on Tuesday night very confident.

Lets hope the majority of the 28,680 crowd return for the QPR HOME GAME

CITY FANS SANG AND CHEERED THEIR TEAM OF THE PITCH

CARDIFF CITY 2 DERBY COUNTY 1

Crowd 28,680
Away Support 1,620

Team : Marshall, Peltier, Malone, Morrison, Manga, O'Keefe, Ralls, Whittingham, Noone, Immers and Pilkington.

Subs : Moore, Fabio, Dikgacoi, Gunnarsson, Ameobi, Lawrence and Zohore.


This was billed as City's biggest game for two years,with Derby 5th in the Championship and City 7th,5 points behind Derby and with Cardiff's biggest home crowd for two years,Slade's team had to deliver today.


City made a good start with Ralls having two good shots and City taking the game to Derby
Then for the next 20 mins the game was a bit stale.
Atmosphere wise so far quite.
Derby very ordinary so far and not a save for Marshall to make at this point.

Then 37th min Whitts corner,Manga powerful header one nil City

45th min handbags with the players and City gained a free kick,but Pilkington booked, Whitts whipped it in,but to no avail.

City went in at half-time 1-0 and deserved it.

Derby offered nothing.

City 1 shot on target, Derby 0.

Half-time CCFC 1 Derby 0

Derby came out and City looked asleep,Marshall slow and bang 49th min header over the top 1-1

Then Craig Noone one on one and missed a sitter

68th min Whittingham corner,headed down and Stuart O'Keefe turned and bang 2-1 City

Derby then came at Cardiff,but no real threat upfront.

78th min Gunnarsson on for Pilkington.

Back and for,both teams were going for it.

88th min Dikgacoi came on for Okeefe.

Lawrence on for Noone in 90th min.

Derby were poor over all and City deserved the victory

Full-time CARDIFF CITY 2 DERBY COUNTY 1



My man of the match Lex Immers



Up next a tough trip to Burnley on Tuesday night

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GREAT VICTORY/CITY DESERVED IT TODAY

WELL DONE RUSSELL SLADE

Hard to believe that that Derby team are in the play off spots. Not for much longer, I don't think!

Hard to believe that that Derby team are in the play off spots. Not for much longer, I don't think!

And all the money they've spent, well Done City

Huge 3 points & well deserved

Bluebirds

Huge 3 points & well deserved

Bluebirds

Correct Mason, huge 3pts

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Basically 1on target for Derby Goal !! 2 on target for Cardiff 2 Goals not a great game...But a Win was A Must, point at Burnley...Win at Fulham..Game On

Basically 1on target for Derby Goal !! 2 on target for Cardiff 2 Goals not a great game...But a Win was A Must, point at Burnley...Win at Fulham..Game On

Correct a Win is Win and now City Deserve 20,000 plus every home game

Derby offered little, few individual players, lucky goal. No desire or team ethic whatsoever. Typical City home performance, worked socks off and took our chances. Two strikers we would walk this division, critic or not we are in the mix because we are efficient.

Immers def Man of match. He doesn't stop running.

Basically 1on target for Derby Goal !! 2 on target for Cardiff 2 Goals not a great game...But a Win was A Must, point at Burnley...Win at Fulham..Game On

Correct a Win is Win and now City Deserve 20,000 plus every home game

Be more than 20 against qpr, so nice to see today

Derby offered little, few individual players, lucky goal. No desire or team ethic whatsoever. Typical City home performance, worked socks off and took our chances. Two strikers we would walk this division, critic or not we are in the mix because we are efficient.

Gareth, Derby for an expensive squad were very ordinary,but still a great win
We would,I agree

Immers def Man of match. He doesn't stop running.

Totally agree

Basically 1on target for Derby Goal !! 2 on target for Cardiff 2 Goals not a great game...But a Win was A Must, point at Burnley...Win at Fulham..Game On

Correct a Win is Win and now City Deserve 20,000 plus every home game

Be more than 20 against qpr, so nice to see today

Def should be

Bluebirds

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Great win today and good to see a big crowd again supporting the Bluebirds
There seems to be a real togetherness with squad now
Only negative today was trying to park the car,bloody full up everywhere

Great win great crowd great weather great day all round O Keeffe my MOTM.

Great win great crowd great weather great day all round O Keeffe my MOTM.

Okeefe by a mile and ralls does so much work goes unnoticed.

Great win today and good to see a big crowd again supporting the Bluebirds
There seems to be a real togetherness with squad now
Only negative today was trying to park the car,bloody full up everywhere

That's what was missing the togetherness

Great win great crowd great weather great day all round O Keeffe my MOTM.

Lex Immers mine

My MOTM was Craig Noone. OK he blew his lines with that golden chance but that aside he ran Derby ragged down the right hand side and made Tom Ince look like money well saved

However, a for the central midfielders who didn't buck a tackle all day unlike a certain left-back I could mention,

My MOTM was Craig Noone. OK he blew his lines with that golden chance but that aside he ran Derby ragged down the right hand side and made Tom Ince look like money well saved

However, a for the central midfielders who didn't buck a tackle all day unlike a certain left-back I could mention,

Tony, on his day Craig Noone can be the best winger in the Championship, but he is inconsistent and if he was not he would be worth millions

Just a great day !

Weather perfect, a big crowd and the team put on a determined performance throughly deserving to win !

Well done to the club for the ticket promotion and if I was Mr Choo I would be thinking about reduced prices for remaining games as I am sure the players enjoyed it more today in front of 28,000+

Maybe a 3 game adult ticket package for a reduced price £30 ?

Let's fill the ground for the remaining games

Just a great day !

Weather perfect, a big crowd and the team put on a determined performance throughly deserving to win !

Well done to the club for the ticket promotion and if I was Mr Choo I would be thinking about reduced prices for remaining games as I am sure the players enjoyed it more today in front of 28,000+

Maybe a 3 game adult ticket package for a reduced price £30 ?

Let's fill the ground for the remaining games

Yes I agree spot on by our club

I must have been watching a different game to the fella who said noone was our best player??!

Ran with head down all game, very two table cutting inside didn't out one decent ball in wasteful in possession more than 10'times I counted and got fed up of counting didn't beat a man all game and seems to have lost a yard of pace this season

His reformable was woeful he should have come off after 55 mins not 90

Lawrence came on and beat the defender with one attempt

We should have cashed in on noone long ago

Strange isn't it? Before Christmas we couldn't defend 2 goal leads. The last 2 home games we have defended a 1 goal lead with no fuss or worry whatsoever

Funny how peoples opinion differ.

For me we played a class team today, Derby were not poor and deserve their place in the play offs Its just City turned up and outplayed them on every part of the pitch

Manga, Immers and O Keefe were all exceptional today, lets not take anything away from Citys win today by saying Derby were poor, City were GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!