' Match Report ' " Cardiff City v Wigan Athletic "
Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:12 pm
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Cardiff City 1 Wigan Athletic 0
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Tuesday 19th August 2014
Cardiff City continued their unbeaten start to the Championship season with a narrow victory over a Wigan side who are still without a win this term.
Striker Nicky Maynard, who had a loan spell at the DW Stadium last season, netted the only goal of the game with a low finish from six yards.
Martyn Waghorn almost equalised, but diverted Don Cowie's pass just wide.
Victory for Cardiff was their second home win in a row and the first in 12 meetings with Wigan.
It took the Bluebirds into second in the Championship table, behind leaders Nottingham Forest only on goal difference.
Uwe Rosler's Latics, though, have lost three of their four league and cup games so far this season.
Cardiff, who beat Huddersfield 3-1 on Saturday, nearly took the lead after just 98 seconds when midfielder Aaron Gunnarsson shot through a crowd of players, but Wigan goalkeeper Scott Carson made the save.
Bluebirds keeper David Marshall was also called into action in the first half, saving Callum McManaman's header from former Cardiff full-back Andrew Taylor's cross.
Maynard, who scored four league goals in 11 starts for Wigan last season, broke the deadlock early in the second half.
The 27-year-old latched onto Kenwyne Jones's header following a corner to net from the edge of the six-yard box.
Waghorn went close after coming on as a substitute, but Cardiff held on.
LINEUP, BOOKINGS (1) & SUBSTITUTIONS (6)
Cardiff City
01 Marshall
03 Fabio
36 Morrison
02 Brayford
16 Connolly
20 Daehli (Pilkington - 45' )
17 Gunnarsson
07 Whittingham
18 Adeyemi Booked
09 Jones (Javi Guerra - 88' )
23 Maynard (Le Fondre - 80' )
Substitutes
04 Torres Ruiz
05 Hudson
10 Le Fondre
15 Wolff Eikrem
19 Pilkington
22 Javi Guerra
33 Moore
Wigan Athletic
01 Carson
03 Taylor (Tavernier - 76' )
17 Boyce
30 Kiernan
24 Perch
04 Ramis
16 McArthur
19 Cowie
14 Huws
32 Fortuné (Riera Magem - 61' )
15 McManaman (Waghorn - 61' )
Substitutes
02 Tavernier
05 Caldwell
09 Riera Magem
18 Espinoza
25 Barnett
26 Al-Habsi
33 Waghorn
Ref: Robert Madley
Att: 20,662
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=146015
Cardiff City 1 Wigan Athletic 0
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=146015
Tuesday 19th August 2014
Cardiff City continued their unbeaten start to the Championship season with a narrow victory over a Wigan side who are still without a win this term.
Striker Nicky Maynard, who had a loan spell at the DW Stadium last season, netted the only goal of the game with a low finish from six yards.
Martyn Waghorn almost equalised, but diverted Don Cowie's pass just wide.
Victory for Cardiff was their second home win in a row and the first in 12 meetings with Wigan.
It took the Bluebirds into second in the Championship table, behind leaders Nottingham Forest only on goal difference.
Uwe Rosler's Latics, though, have lost three of their four league and cup games so far this season.
Cardiff, who beat Huddersfield 3-1 on Saturday, nearly took the lead after just 98 seconds when midfielder Aaron Gunnarsson shot through a crowd of players, but Wigan goalkeeper Scott Carson made the save.
Bluebirds keeper David Marshall was also called into action in the first half, saving Callum McManaman's header from former Cardiff full-back Andrew Taylor's cross.
Maynard, who scored four league goals in 11 starts for Wigan last season, broke the deadlock early in the second half.
The 27-year-old latched onto Kenwyne Jones's header following a corner to net from the edge of the six-yard box.
Waghorn went close after coming on as a substitute, but Cardiff held on.
LINEUP, BOOKINGS (1) & SUBSTITUTIONS (6)
Cardiff City
01 Marshall
03 Fabio
36 Morrison
02 Brayford
16 Connolly
20 Daehli (Pilkington - 45' )
17 Gunnarsson
07 Whittingham
18 Adeyemi Booked
09 Jones (Javi Guerra - 88' )
23 Maynard (Le Fondre - 80' )
Substitutes
04 Torres Ruiz
05 Hudson
10 Le Fondre
15 Wolff Eikrem
19 Pilkington
22 Javi Guerra
33 Moore
Wigan Athletic
01 Carson
03 Taylor (Tavernier - 76' )
17 Boyce
30 Kiernan
24 Perch
04 Ramis
16 McArthur
19 Cowie
14 Huws
32 Fortuné (Riera Magem - 61' )
15 McManaman (Waghorn - 61' )
Substitutes
02 Tavernier
05 Caldwell
09 Riera Magem
18 Espinoza
25 Barnett
26 Al-Habsi
33 Waghorn
Ref: Robert Madley
Att: 20,662
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Re: ' Match Report ' " Cardiff City v Wigan Athletic "
Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:13 pm
Cardiff City 1 - 0 Wigan: Nicky Maynard goal claims all three points as Bluebirds continue impressive start to season
By Steve Tucker
19 Aug 2014
Nicky Maynard's second-half goal gave Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a second Championship win in the space of four days
Born-again Cardiff City striker Nicky Maynard netted the winner against his former club as the Bluebirds moved up to second in the Championship.
Maynard spent last season on loan at Wigan, but he finally broke the Latics stubborn resistance when he fired home from close range with 53 minutes gone in the Welsh capital.
It was a second win in three days for Bluebirds boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and his men, and despite it being early days, things are currently looking good for the Norwegian as he looks to ensure the club bounce back to the top-flight with immediate effect.
Maynard might have got the goal here, but this just about deserved win was built on a very good defensive display by the home side. The whole back-four performed well against Uwe Rosler's men with new signing Sean Morrison settling in well on his debut.
When the defence was breached goalkeeper David Marshall displayed some of the form he showed last season with another outstanding display.
The Bluebirds were far from fluent for most of this, there is surely better to come, but that is perhaps only to be expected so early in a new campaign. On that front, matters were not helped by Solskjaer making a few alterations to the side which had beaten Huddersfield last time out.
Indeed if they say never change a winning side, Solskjaer obviously missed that meeting. Following the good victory over Huddersfield, in came Aron Gunnarsson and Maynard for Guido Burgstaller and Adam Le Fondre respectively. Maynard linked up with the man of the moment Kenwyne Jones up-front.
New signing Morrison came straight into the heart of the Bluebirds defence to replace Mark Hudson following his move from Reading.
When it came to the visitors, it was a case of friends reunited with former Bluebirds Andrew Taylor and Don Cowie starting for Rosler's side, and Leon Barnett, one of the stars of Cardiff's Championship winning season, on the bench for Athletic.
The Bluebirds began brightly and within two minutes caused consternation in the Wigan box. The visitors failed to deal with a Peter Whittingham corner and Aron Gunnarsson, who was playing in a surprisingly advanced role, saw his snap-shot beaten away by Scott Carson in the Wigan goal.
It was to typify a half in which the Bluebirds had the better of things, but could not quite prise their visitors open. Maynard got the best of the chances for Cardiff, but failed to convert for the moment.
On 21 minutes a dodgy kick from Carson gave the striker a chance to bear down on goal, but Maynard found himself out-muscled by Cowie in the box. Half-hearted penalty appeals fell on deaf ears.
Later, another Whittingham corner found Maynard again, but his header was into the ground and bounced wide.
Wigan, meanwhile, were probing forwards themselves when they could, but were being well contained by a staunch Cardiff defence. When that was breached, goalkeeper Marshall, wearing the captain's armband, rose to the occasion. On 28 minutes he pushed over well when a Taylor cross was met by a neat glancing header from Callum McManaman.
As the first period came to a close, a fierce drive from Tom Adeyemi had to be beaten away by Carson, but still the home side were frustrated.
It was a state of affairs which was to last little more than seven minutes into a second-half that saw new signing Anthony Pilkington brought on for Cardiff in place of mats Daehli.
Marshall had needed to save a Rob Kiernan header, and the exciting John Brayford had fizzed a ball across the face of goal before the breakthrough came.
Whittingham lofted the ball in, Matt Connolly headed back cleverly, Jones nodded on and it fell perfectly for Maynard to smash home from mere yards out what proved to be the winner. The Bluebirds were good for the lead.
Rosler was prompted into action though, off came McManaman and the disappointing Marc-Antoine Fortune up front to be replaced by Spanish striker Oriol Riera and Martyn Waghorn. It did inject some urgency into the visitors who were to enjoy their best spell of the match.
On 70 minutes a lightening attack saw Waghorn well-placed just yards out, but his effort span just wide of the Bluebirds post.
That really was as dangerous as it got for the home side, though, as Wigan began to run out of ideas against a defence that was in superb form and just refused to be breached. Cardiff themselves were content merely to contain the Latics as time ran out.
There is still a long, long way to go of course, but with Wigan fancied by many to be up there this term, the Bluebirds showed again that they are more than willing to embrace the pressure that comes with being one of the favourites to be topping the table when May does finally come around.
By Steve Tucker
19 Aug 2014
Nicky Maynard's second-half goal gave Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a second Championship win in the space of four days
Born-again Cardiff City striker Nicky Maynard netted the winner against his former club as the Bluebirds moved up to second in the Championship.
Maynard spent last season on loan at Wigan, but he finally broke the Latics stubborn resistance when he fired home from close range with 53 minutes gone in the Welsh capital.
It was a second win in three days for Bluebirds boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and his men, and despite it being early days, things are currently looking good for the Norwegian as he looks to ensure the club bounce back to the top-flight with immediate effect.
Maynard might have got the goal here, but this just about deserved win was built on a very good defensive display by the home side. The whole back-four performed well against Uwe Rosler's men with new signing Sean Morrison settling in well on his debut.
When the defence was breached goalkeeper David Marshall displayed some of the form he showed last season with another outstanding display.
The Bluebirds were far from fluent for most of this, there is surely better to come, but that is perhaps only to be expected so early in a new campaign. On that front, matters were not helped by Solskjaer making a few alterations to the side which had beaten Huddersfield last time out.
Indeed if they say never change a winning side, Solskjaer obviously missed that meeting. Following the good victory over Huddersfield, in came Aron Gunnarsson and Maynard for Guido Burgstaller and Adam Le Fondre respectively. Maynard linked up with the man of the moment Kenwyne Jones up-front.
New signing Morrison came straight into the heart of the Bluebirds defence to replace Mark Hudson following his move from Reading.
When it came to the visitors, it was a case of friends reunited with former Bluebirds Andrew Taylor and Don Cowie starting for Rosler's side, and Leon Barnett, one of the stars of Cardiff's Championship winning season, on the bench for Athletic.
The Bluebirds began brightly and within two minutes caused consternation in the Wigan box. The visitors failed to deal with a Peter Whittingham corner and Aron Gunnarsson, who was playing in a surprisingly advanced role, saw his snap-shot beaten away by Scott Carson in the Wigan goal.
It was to typify a half in which the Bluebirds had the better of things, but could not quite prise their visitors open. Maynard got the best of the chances for Cardiff, but failed to convert for the moment.
On 21 minutes a dodgy kick from Carson gave the striker a chance to bear down on goal, but Maynard found himself out-muscled by Cowie in the box. Half-hearted penalty appeals fell on deaf ears.
Later, another Whittingham corner found Maynard again, but his header was into the ground and bounced wide.
Wigan, meanwhile, were probing forwards themselves when they could, but were being well contained by a staunch Cardiff defence. When that was breached, goalkeeper Marshall, wearing the captain's armband, rose to the occasion. On 28 minutes he pushed over well when a Taylor cross was met by a neat glancing header from Callum McManaman.
As the first period came to a close, a fierce drive from Tom Adeyemi had to be beaten away by Carson, but still the home side were frustrated.
It was a state of affairs which was to last little more than seven minutes into a second-half that saw new signing Anthony Pilkington brought on for Cardiff in place of mats Daehli.
Marshall had needed to save a Rob Kiernan header, and the exciting John Brayford had fizzed a ball across the face of goal before the breakthrough came.
Whittingham lofted the ball in, Matt Connolly headed back cleverly, Jones nodded on and it fell perfectly for Maynard to smash home from mere yards out what proved to be the winner. The Bluebirds were good for the lead.
Rosler was prompted into action though, off came McManaman and the disappointing Marc-Antoine Fortune up front to be replaced by Spanish striker Oriol Riera and Martyn Waghorn. It did inject some urgency into the visitors who were to enjoy their best spell of the match.
On 70 minutes a lightening attack saw Waghorn well-placed just yards out, but his effort span just wide of the Bluebirds post.
That really was as dangerous as it got for the home side, though, as Wigan began to run out of ideas against a defence that was in superb form and just refused to be breached. Cardiff themselves were content merely to contain the Latics as time ran out.
There is still a long, long way to go of course, but with Wigan fancied by many to be up there this term, the Bluebirds showed again that they are more than willing to embrace the pressure that comes with being one of the favourites to be topping the table when May does finally come around.