MATCH THREAD “ CARDIFF CITY v WEST HAM UNITED “ MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v WEST HAM UNITED
Saturday 9th March 2019, 3pm
Premier League
Cardiff City Stadium


TEAM NEWS - Cardiff City

Cardiff: Etheridge; Peltier, Manga, Morrison, Bennett; Gunnarsson, Arter, Camarasa; Hoilett, Murphy, Niasse.

Subs: Smithies, Bacuna, Ralls, Harris, Reid, Paterson, Zohore.

09/03/19

Sol Bamba confirmed out for the rest of the season.

Warnock confirmed that he has an otherwise fully fit squad to choose from, with Josh Murphy, Harry Arter and Callum Paterson all in contention to return to the starting side.

Andriy Yarmolenko is one of West Ham's long-term injury absences, along with Jack Wilshere, Carlos Sanchez and Winston Reid.

Aaron Cresswell and Fabian Balbuena have both been passed fit and may feature for the visitors, so too could Argentine playmaker Manuel Lanzini.




08/03/19

NEIL WARNOCK:

Injury news? Bamba?

“A big blow yes, but it’s gone now. He’ll not be far away from our thoughts. He’s not been able to have the operation yet as his knee was too painful. But you do miss any top players at clubs. He’s had a great season. I said I’d like to see him at the away games as well, if he’s capable and I think Sol can play a big part?”


"I have a virtually fit squad."





Best team for West Ham?


NEIL WARNOCK:

“(Bamba’s absence) makes my job easier. The back four takes care of itself tomorrow. We’re a bit thin on the ground at times. Striker-wise we’re not taking our opportunities. But we’ve got to work harder.”




CARDIFF FANS CAN PAY ON THE DAY


Cardiff City v West Ham United this Saturday is to reach 32,000 including 3,000 West Ham fans,

City put a special offer on for their Season ticket holders at £10each



West Ham have sold 3,000 tickets

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About West Ham United

West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club re-located to the London Stadium in 2016.

The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. They moved to the Boleyn Ground in 1904, which remained their home ground for more than a century. The team initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the Football League in 1919. They were promoted to the top flight in 1923, when they were also losing finalists in the first FA Cup Final held at Wembley. In 1940, the club won the inaugural Football League War Cup.

West Ham have been winners of the FA Cup three times, in 1964, 1975, and 1980, and have also been runners-up twice, in 1923, and 2006. The club have reached two major European finals, winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965 and finishing runners-up in the same competition in 1976. West Ham also won the Intertoto Cup in 1999. They are one of eight clubs never to have fallen below the second tier of English football, spending 60 of 92 league seasons in the top flight, up to and including the 2017–18 season. The club's highest league position to date came in 1985–86, when they achieved third place in the then First Division.

Three West Ham players were members of the 1966 World Cup final-winning England team: captain Bobby Moore and goalscorers Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters.

Previous Meeting

We lost 3-1 at the London Stadium in December. All the goals came in the second half as Lucas Perez got two goals and Michail Antonio added a third, before Josh Murphy got our late consolation goal. Joe Ralls had a first half penalty saved.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Peltier, Manga, Morrison, Bennett, Gunnarsson, Ralls, Camarasa, Zohore, Decordova-Reid, Niasse

West Ham United: Fabianski, Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice, Snodgrass, Noble, Lanzini, Anderson, Hernandez

Form - Last Three Games

Wolves 2-0 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 0-3 Everton
Cardiff City 1-5 Watford

West Ham United 2-0 Newcastle United
Manchester City 1-0 West Ham United
West Ham United 3-1 Fulham

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 11/5
West Ham United - 5/4
Draw - 23/10

Predictions

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Cresswell a doubt for Cardiff game

By Andy Branagan


Cresswell a doubt for Cardiff game


West Ham United left back Aaron Cresswell is a doubt for Saturday’s trip to Cardiff City after suffering a clash of heads against Newcastle United, according to Football London.

The outlet claims that the Hammers first team star, who was substituted after half an hour against the Magpies, was brought off as a precaution after a clash of heads with Javier Manquillo.

That knock has seemingly put his status for the trip to the Welsh capital in doubt, in what is the latest in a long line of injury concerns that have plagued manager Manuel Pellegrini this season.

However, Cresswell is the only fresh worry to emerge from the victory over Rafael Benitez’s side.

OPINION

This is a real blow to West Ham, make no mistake about it. Cresswell has nailed down the starting left back spot in recent months having won his battle with Arthur Masuaku at the position. He has been one of the team’s most improved players and is undoubtedly one of the first names on the team sheet for Pellegrini at the moment. However, you always have to be careful with head injuries. It’s important that full tests and carried out and that players don’t return to action still suffering the effects of a concussion or some other head-related injury. It makes sense, then, that Cresswell is a doubt against Cardiff after his clash with Manquillo. It was a hefty collision and both men required treatment at the London Stadium. The Hammers star appears to have come off worse, though. If he only winds up missing one game it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, and there are worse matches to miss than a trip to Cardiff.

West Ham have sold 3,000 tickets

It’s pay on the day for Cardiff fans

Sadly I fear they will have too much firepower and experience.

We can only dream of the attackers they have in their side.

I'd expect Arnautovic will start against us. Top player.

My head says 3-0 to West Ham, a team we rarely play well against.

Still think we can catch Southampton in other games though.

2-0 West Ham - experienced players, good tactics and can hold up against teams like Liverpool. Unless we knock one in early think this'll be slow and painful.

At least Soton should lose to Spurs. Should.

LILES 93

did'nt spurs loose to burnley , not automatic for a spurs win unfortunatly for us.

West ham are between watford and everton in the table and are trying to fight for a place in europe i just hope our fight to stay up is greater.

I hate to say this and I hope I’m wrong but I can’t see anything other than a West Ham win. 0-2

Think we’ll scrape a point here, all depends if the defence crumbles the way it has done over the last 3 matches

WEST HAM UNITED FC:

"It was a very good match and now we’re going to think about Cardiff to try and get three points and get into the European places."

Cardiff City v West Ham United this Saturday is to reach 32,000 including 3,000 West Ham fans,

City put a special offer on for their Season ticket holders at £10each

' NEIL WARNOCKS BIGGEST GAME IN 12 YEARS '



Why Cardiff City v West Ham United is Neil Warnock's biggest game in 12 years


Thursday 7th March 2019


The magnitude of Cardiff City's clash with West Ham United this weekend will not be lost on Neil Warnock.

The veteran manager has faced some pretty big games during his two-and-a-half years in charge of the Bluebirds: Championship promotion-deciders, relegation six-pointers.

And some huge ones in charge of clubs like Leeds United, Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers in the past decade or so.

But after unarguably the most difficult two-week period of his Cardiff tenure, Warnock will know Saturday's game against West Ham ranks not just as his most important in charge of the Bluebirds, but perhaps of any match he has overseen in more than a decade.

In fact you probably have to go back to May 13th 2007 and a Sheffield United relegation play-off with Wigan Athletic to find a game managed by Warnock which held such significance.

An exaggeration? No. If Saturday is not exactly make-or-break for Warnock's Bluebirds, it will go a huge way towards defining their Premier League fate.

Beating West Ham is paramount to the club's season, heck, their entire future. It would also stop in their tracks the murmurs of discontent that have begun from some fans about Warnock, too.

Warnock himself has admitted that keeping Cardiff in the top flight would be his 'biggest achievement' in football.




If he's to do it, this game takes on gigantic proportions.

Not just because of the three chastening defeats that have come hot on the heels of each other; not just the perilous position Cardiff now occupy in the Premier League table; not just the claims from pundits like Danny Gabbidon and our own Nathan Blake about a 'splintered' dressing room spirit.

It's because fundamental elements of Warnock's regime are under siege.

Most worryingly, for the first time since his October 2016 appointment, there have even been some calls for Warnock to be sacked.

It should be emphasised the vast majority of Cardiff fans are still firmly behind the manager.

But, from a vocal minority or not, those whisperings of discontent have begun.

As foolish as they are in the circumstances, they resonate with Warnock. He needs to beat West Ham to nip that in the bud.

Warnock is no fool and is under no illusions about the size of his current task.

He will compare the run-in Cardiff are now facing, to the 2006/07 season climax in which his Sheffield United side were embroiled in a fierce relegation scrap.

The Blades' game against rivals Wigan on the final day of that campaign was enormous for Warnock — a Sheffield United fan since he was young and in that 90-minute encounter given a chance to keep them up in heroic fashion.

We all know how it ended: a 2-1 defeat and relegation for Warnock's beloved Blades on goal difference, having finished level on points with Wigan, amid a furious row with the Hammers of all clubs over Carlos Tevez's registration.




But it doesn't change how big that game was.

In the intervening years, Warnock has gone through plenty.

There was a play-off semi-final for Palace against Bristol City in 2008, an April 2011 win for his QPR side over Watford to seal promotion at Loftus Road.

Since overseeing a huge 2-1 win over Bristol City in his first game as Cardiff manager — a result which lifted the Bluebirds and gave Warnock immediate kudos with his adoring fans — there have been some really big ones.

Last season's promotion finale against Reading springs immediately to mind, so too the penultimate game of the campaign at Hull City, where Sean Morrison's double put Cardiff on the brink.

But this is different. it is Premier League football, a major step up from the Championship in terms of quality, pressure, everything.

Even this season, there have been games you felt Cardiff simply must win: they'd failed to record victory in the first eight games since returning to the Premier League before beating Fulham 4-2 ; they'd failed to win away in the top flight until a dramatic 1-0 smash-and-grab at Leicester ; they paid the perfect tribute to Emiliano Sala with a 2-0 win over Bournemouth.

But no game in Warnock's Cardiff career feels as much a 'sliding doors moment' as this one against West Ham.





It will have colossal ramifications.

Victory would lift the whole club — the whole city — and put Premier League survival firmly in their sights.

Defeat, on the other hand, will only make those questioning Warnock as manager shout louder. He's currently the second favourite among bookmakers to be the next Premier League manager to leave his post.

Rightly or wrongly, those 10/1 odds will shorten further if Cardiff are beaten by the Hammers.

More importantly, defeat would also leave Warnock's side hanging to their Premier League status by a thread, with a gaping three-week gap to ponder their downfall before meeting Chelsea at the end of March — and further seemingly impossible tasks against Man City, Liverpool and Manchester United on the horizon.

It would make for an agonising 22 days for Cardiff to wait for their next fixture, due to FA Cup and international football, particularly if rivals Southampton get something at home to Spurs and the gap at the bottom has widened further.

All things considered, it is no exaggeration to say West Ham simply is must-win for Warnock.

Pull it off, and the whole mind-set can change for the good again.

Warnock is old enough and wise enough to do it. He just has to.

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Think we’ll scrape a point here, all depends if the defence crumbles the way it has done over the last 3 matches

Can't afford to lose this game .

LILES 93

did'nt spurs loose to burnley , not automatic for a spurs win unfortunatly for us.

Agreed mate, that's why I put the emphasis on should, they're not the most reliable of teams!

NEIL WARNOCK:



CARDIFF CITY V WEST HAM UNITED



On West Ham

“I remember Vincent talking about their wide player, Anderson, who cost £40million. Snodgrass I had at Leeds, Hernandez scores goals, Rice is going to become an England regular, But we’ve got to show togetherness now.”

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08/03/19

NEIL WARNOCK:

Injury news? Bamba?

“A big blow yes, but it’s gone now. He’ll not be far away from our thoughts. He’s not been able to have the operation yet as his knee was too painful. But you do miss any top players at clubs. He’s had a great season. I said I’d like to see him at the away games as well, if he’s capable and I think Sol can play a big part?”


"I have a virtually fit squad."

Best team for West Ham?


NEIL WARNOCK:

“(Bamba’s absence) makes my job easier. The back four takes care of itself tomorrow. We’re a bit thin on the ground at times. Striker-wise we’re not taking our opportunities. But we’ve got to work harder.”

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I’m going for a 3-1 win as we are well over due a good performance.
I’ve got a funny feeling we might go 3 at the back with Cunningham filling in there and give it a good go.

West ham are just one of those sides we always seem to struggle against.
The style of football they play is all wrong for us to deal with aswell.

We will lose 0-2 but the performance hopefully is better.
I can see them getting a goal early then hitting us with a sucker punch whe we go all out for a goal late on

It’s pay on the day for Cardiff fans

Just to advise, like several others I spoke to on the night, I left my season ticket home for the Everton game, had to queue longer than I had anticipated to get a replacement and missed the first 15 minutes (the best bit for City, so I was told)

People both buying and/or replacing tickets 'on the day' use the same queue at the Main Ticket Office near Gate 3, so I recommend that anyone intending to 'buy on the day' (or getting a replacement ticket) needs to be at the ground early to ensure they get in before kick-off

For clarity, pre-purchased tickets (for collection only) are available in the usual booths between Gates 3 dnd 4

Sol Bamba confirmed out for the rest of the season.

Warnock confirmed that he has an otherwise fully fit squad to choose from, with Josh Murphy, Harry Arter and Callum Paterson all in contention to return to the starting side.

Andriy Yarmolenko is one of West Ham's long-term injury absences, along with Jack Wilshere, Carlos Sanchez and Winston Reid.

Aaron Cresswell and Fabian Balbuena have both been passed fit and may feature for the visitors, so too could Argentine playmaker Manuel Lanzini.

What are the odds?

Courtesy of Bet365:

Cardiff win - 13/5

Draw - 5/2

What are the odds?

Courtesy of Bet365:

Cardiff win - 13/5

Draw - 5/2

West Ham -6/5

1-2 to West ham on the basis we've lost our last 3 games by margins of 4 then 3 then 2 so today defeat by the odd goal. But my head says 4-0 to the mighty bluebirds.

city win hopefully

Opta match facts




Cardiff have lost all three of their Premier League meetings with West Ham by a two-goal margin, losing the reverse fixture 1-3 in December.



West Ham have won their last seven meetings with Cardiff in all competitions, scoring at least twice each time and conceding just three goals. They last had a longer winning run against an opponent between 1989-2000 vs Watford (9 games).



Cardiff have lost their last three Premier League games by an aggregate score of 1-10, with two home defeats included in that run (1-5 vs Watford, 0-3 vs Everton).



West Ham have only won one of their last eight Premier League away games against sides starting the day in the relegation zone (D4 L3), beating Fulham 2-0 in December.




West Ham have won two of their last three Premier League games (L1), having won just one of their previous seven beforehand (D3 L3).



Away from home, West Ham have lost four of their last five in the Premier League (D1), failing to score in each defeat.



Cardiff have scored just seven first-half goals in Premier League games this season, a league-low. They’ve scored a league-high ratio 72% of their goals after half-time in the competition this season (18/25).



West Ham’s Marko Arnautovic has been involved in 10 goals in his last 11 Premier League appearances against newly-promoted sides (5 goals, 5 assists).



West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini’s first ever Premier League defeat was away at Cardiff City in August 2013 with Manchester City – he’s won his two against the Bluebirds since that defeat.



No player has scored more Premier League goals for Cardiff this season than Callum Paterson (4), though the Scot has failed to score in his last 12 appearances in the competition.

Team news, please..

TEAM NEWS - Cardiff City

Cardiff: Etheridge; Peltier, Manga, Morrison, Bennett; Gunnarsson, Arter, Camarasa; Hoilett, Murphy, Niasse.

Subs: Smithies, Bacuna, Ralls, Harris, Reid, Paterson, Zohore.