MATCH THREAD “ CARDIFF CITY v BIRMINGHAM CITY “ MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v BIRMINGHAM CITY
Saturday 10th March, 3pm
Sky Bet Championship
Cardiff City Stadium

PAY ON THE DAY


TEAM NEWS - Cardiff City

Etheridge; Peltier, Manga, Bamba, Bennett; Grujic, Bryson, Paterson, Mendez-Laing, Hoilett, Zohore.

Subs: Murphy, Morrison, Halford, Damour, Pilkington, Wildschut, Madine


1,620 Brum Sold


09/03/18

CCFC INJURIES

Joe Ralls out
Callum Paterson out?
Sean Morrison out


Danny Ward out
Lee Peltier out
Jazz Richards out

Armand Traore could be back for Brentford Away
Aron Gunnarsson could be back for Brentford Away




Garry Monk has revealed David Davis has returned to training with Birmingham City.

The midfielder has missed the last five games and is not certain to feature against Cardiff City this weekend.

Jonathan Grounds and Isaac Vassell are the only two confirmed absentees.


09/03/18


1,510 Brum fans coming.

Brum fans not allowed to pay on the day



08/03/18

As of this morning, 1,476 tickets had been sold by Birmingham City



About Birmingham City

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, they became Small Heath in 1888, then Birmingham in 1905, finally becoming Birmingham City in 1943. The team compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.

As Small Heath, they played in the Football Alliance before becoming founder members and first ever champions of the Football League Second Division. The most successful period in their history was in the 1950s and early 1960s. They achieved their highest finishing position of sixth in the First Division in the 1955–56 season and reached the 1956 FA Cup Final, progressed to the final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960 and 1961, and won their first major trophy, the League Cup, in 1963, beating Aston Villa 3–1 on aggregate. They won the latter competition for the second time in 2011. They have played in the top tier of English football for around half of their history: the longest period spent outside the top division, between 1986 and 2002, included two brief spells in the third tier of the English League, during which time they twice won the Football League Trophy.

St Andrew's has been their home ground since 1906. They have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with Aston Villa, their nearest neighbours, with whom they play the Second City derby. The club's nickname is Blues, after the colour of their kit, and their fans are known as Bluenoses.

Previous Meeting

We lost 1-0 Birmingham in October, with Che Adams getting the goal.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Connolly, Manga, Bamba, Bennett, Bryson, Grujic, Paterson, Harris, Hoilett, Zohore

Birmingham City: Stockdale, Jenkinson, Morrison, Dean, Colin, Gardner, Kieftenbeld, Jota, Adams, Maghoma, Jutkiewicz

Form - Last Three Games

Cardiff City 2-1 Barnsley
Cardiff City 1-0 Bristol City
Ipswich Town 0-1 Cardiff City

Birmingham City 0-1 Middlesbrough
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Birmingham City
Birmingham City 0-2 Barnsley

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 3/5
Birmingham City - 5/1
Draw - 11/4

Predictions

Post your predictions below

Another tight victory 2-1....or if we are a little more clinical than tonite 3-1.

1-0 for me, Grujic to get the winner... feel he may hit the ground running now after last night’s confident booster for him

3-0 cardiff. 22k crowd

4-0 Cardiff

3-1 to the mighty bluebirds

1-0 with our injury ravaged squad

City 3-1

Approx 1,800 Brum fans coming

If we can somehow keep winning...at some point villa and Fulham may slip up. We can then extend our lead but for us we need to just focus 1 game at a time.

Surely this Saturday we will get 20k plus? 11 games to go and 2nd place!

Approx 1,800 Brum fans coming

That is excellent considering how badly they are doing

2-0 Cardiff

Cardiff City have little time to revel in their latest win as they return to Championship action against Birmingham City this weekend.

The Bluebirds stretched their unbeaten run to nine matches with a hard fought 2-1 victory over Barnsley in the Welsh capital on Tuesday night, and they will hope the new manager curse does not strike again as Garry Monk bring his Birmingham side to South Wales on Saturday.

Neil Warnock's men suffered a surprise 1-0 defeat to the Blues in the previous encounter between the sides, the first of Steve Cotterill's reign.

But Cardiff's focus will solely be on continuing their magnificent run of form that has seen them strengthen their grip on an automatic promotion place in recent weeks.

Approx 1,800 Brum fans coming

According to their forum it's looking like 2k+

As of this morning, 1,476 tickets had been sold by Birmingham City

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Got a feeling this might be a tricky one, changed managers just before our last game and did a number on us.

Will be a huge win if we can get it though

Garry Monk tells BluesTV that David Davis is back in training ahead of Saturday's Championship clash with Cardiff City.

2-0 BLUEBIRDS

Garry Monk has revealed David Davis has returned to training with Birmingham City.

The midfielder has missed the last five games and is not certain to feature against Cardiff City this weekend.

Blues will face a Cardiff side that has won their last five, while Blues have lost their previous six.

Blues will face a Cardiff side that has won their last five, while Blues have lost their previous six.

This makes me nervous lol

Blues will face a Cardiff side that has won their last five, while Blues have lost their previous six.

This makes me nervous lol

Brum

Jonathan Grounds and Isaac Vassell are the only two confirmed absentees

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Joe Ralls out
Callum Paterson out?
Sean Morrison out

We are so due a break over Birmingham. Last season we were robbed in injury time plus how many times at their ground have we been robbed by woeful refereeing?

I just hope that the injury toll will not catch up with the players so some team can take advantage of it.

PS How come Fulham have no injury problems? I appreciate Villa did earlier this season but still they had the ability to buy in the window.

BIRMINGHAM FANS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY ON THE DAY.

Dreading our line up tomorrow. Our injury crisis may well and truly scuffer our auto spot, I really believe this and I think it starts tomorrow.

Dreading our line up tomorrow. Our injury crisis may well and truly scuffer our auto spot, I really believe this and I think it starts tomorrow.

What will you say when we win?