MATCH THREAD " CARDIFF CITY v NORWICH CITY " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v NORWICH CITY
Friday 1st December, 7.45pm
SkyBet Championship
Cardiff City Stadium


Attendance: 17,033 - including 623 Norwich fans

STARTING 11

Neil Etheridge
Bruno Manga
Sean Morrison
Sol Bamba
Joe Bennett
Loic Damour
Craig Bryson
Joe Ralls
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing
Junior Hoilett
Danny Ward

SUBSTITUTES

Brian Murphy
Lee Peltier
Greg Halford
Callum Paterson
Liam Feeney
Lee Tomlin
Omar Bogle


PAY ON THE NIGHT

Surely 25,000 plus home crowd

01/12/17

NEIL WARNOCK:

Mendez-Laing and Gunnars did some light training yesterday and we’ll see what they’re like this morning. Ken and the other lads are carrying on and won’t be in the reckoning, but I don’t think the other lads will be back either.

"I don’t envisage any changes at this moment in time."

Kadeem Harris and Kenneth Zohore are still out injured.



27/11/17 & 28/11/17

Omar Bogle will be available for the clash with Norwich on Friday having missed the Bluebirds' last three outings after being sent off against the Robins.

But Ralls and Sol Bamba are both just one yellow card away from a one-match ban.

Mendez could be back soon - Warnock

What about when the injured players return?

NEIL WARNOCK:

"It’ll be like having four new players, I think. Mendez was supposed to be back against Brentford but suffered a flare up. I was a quick winger like Mendez-Laing so I know what it’s like... but if you come back too soon it can be bad."

"So we decided to leave him against Barnsley and that he’d be ok for Saturday. But I thought after getting the result at Barnsley why risk it?"

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About Norwich City

Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or City) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. The club currently play in the Championship, the second tier of English football, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2016. They were first promoted to the top flight in 1972. Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. The club has never won the top flight, but finished third in 1993.

The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their home games at Carrow Road and have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with East Anglian rivals Ipswich Town, with whom they have contested the East Anglian derby 134 times since 1902.

The fans' song "On the Ball, City" is regarded as being the oldest football song in the world which is still in use. The club plays in characteristic yellow and green kits and are nicknamed The Canaries after the history of breeding the birds in the area.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Manga, Bamba, Morrison, Bennett, Damour, Bryson, Ralls, Paterson, Hoilett, Ward

Norwich City: Gunn, Pinto, Zimmermann, Hanley, Stiepermann, Reed, Vrancic, Hoolahan, Maddison, Murphy, Oliveira

Form - Last Three Games

Nottingham Forest 0-2 Cardiff City
Barnsley 0-1 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 2-0 Brentford

Norwich City 1-1 Preston North End
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Norwich City
Norwich City 1-1 Barnsley

Match Odds

Cardiff City - EVENS
Norwich City - 3/1
Draw - 23/10

Predictions

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Lets make it four wins in a row City


City 3 Norwich 0


Cant wait to be there, surely 25,000 plus

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City 3:1 win

For me Norwich seem to be our bogus team.

They have not won a game for 6 matches so this does not bode well for us. Also they have the ex Cardiff player Jerome.

I think we will do well to scrape a draw from this one.....with a lot of luck.....a bias ref for us.....all decisions going in our favour.....

Bogus team? its bogey team mun butt. 2-1 bluebirds

Bogus team? its bogey team mun butt. 2-1 bluebirds

That's what effect that team has on me.

Stats say we due a defeat go for a 2-2 draw but can see a defeat 2 nil

Lets make it four wins in a row City


City 3 Norwich 0


Cant wait to be there, surely 25,000 plus

Will be around the 20k mark as per usual unless you're brining 5k Spaniards over with you. Friday night isn't gonna bring the crowd up either.

Hopefully with our current momentum and their average recent performances we can get another win. 1-0

Solid home win for me,3-0.Same side that started against the scabs too.

I hopeful that we can finally stop Jerome looking like Ronaldo! 2-1 Bluebirds

Bogus team? its bogey team mun butt. 2-1 bluebirds

That's what effect that team has on me.

If Omar scores the winner we'll be their Bogle team.

Cant see Norwich getting anything out of this one tbh. Their confidence will be low and Farke doesn't seem to be doing well with Norwich and with Gunnarsson, Mendez-Laing and Bogle back I can only see a Cardiff win. I think we'll win by a 2 goal margin so I'm going for either a 2-0 win or a 3-1 win.

Bogus team? its bogey team mun butt. 2-1 bluebirds

That's what effect that team has on me.

If Omar scores the winner we'll be their Bogle team.

I need something like this to happen to get rid of these demons in my head.

3-0 Cardiff win and another clean sheet

Can feel a win coming in front of the home crowd, no individual mistakes hopefully so 4-0 for me!!!

Lets make it four wins in a row City


City 3 Norwich 0


Cant wait to be there, surely 25,000 plus

Will be around the 20k mark as per usual unless you're brining 5k Spaniards over with you. Friday night isn't gonna bring the crowd up either.

Hopefully with our current momentum and their average recent performances we can get another win. 1-0

I'd go along with this for the score and the crowd. Think it may be a hard fought 1-0 win, but a 1-1 draw would'nt be a big surprise. I have seen few score draws when Norwich come here, hopefully not this time.

Omar Bogle will be available for the clash with Norwich on Friday having missed the Bluebirds' last three outings after being sent off against the Robins.

But Ralls and Sol Bamba are both just one yellow card away from a one-match ban.

2 - 1 Cardiff

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25-1

25-1

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Wez, I got yr new number, Cheers

NEIL WARNOCK:


"It really couldn’t have got much better. We’ve had problems but we haven’t bleated on about them, with Ken and Mendez and Gunnars, and poor Kadeem too."

"But we looked at the opposition and how we could nullify them and create things. It doesn’t get better than three wins and three clean sheets in a week does it!"

Mendez could be back soon - Warnock

What about when the injured players return?

NEIL WARNOCK:

"It’ll be like having four new players, I think. Mendez was supposed to be back against Brentford but suffered a flare up. I was a quick winger like Mendez-Laing so I know what it’s like... but if you come back too soon it can be bad."

"So we decided to leave him against Barnsley and that he’d be ok for Saturday. But I thought after getting the result at Barnsley why risk it?"

2 questions about tickets. Firstly do i need to book in advance for tomoz to sit in family stand. And secondly is it cheaper to buy a family ticket or buy an oap +1 student and 2 kids separately and can i do this at the ground before the game tomoz

Cheers guys.

NEIL WARNOCK:

Mendez-Laing and Gunnars did some light training yesterday and we’ll see what they’re like this morning. Ken and the other lads are carrying on and won’t be in the reckoning, but I don’t think the other lads will be back either.

"I don’t envisage any changes at this moment in time."

Kadeem Harris and Kenneth Zohore are still out injured.

Can't see anything other than a Cardiff win tonight.

But no clean sheet I'm afraid.

2-0 win

5-0