MATCH THREAD: " COVENTRY CITY v CARDIFF CITY " MATCH THREAD

COVENTRY CITY v CARDIFF CITY
Wednesday 15th September, 7.45pm
Sky Bet Championship
Coventry Building Society Arena 


100% ITS PAY ON THE GATE FOR CARDIFF FANS


1,200 tickets sold / Come on Cardiff fans we are allowed 3,000 / pay on the night


Team news - Cardiff City



Phillips; Ng, Morrison (c), Flint, Nelson; Pack, Bagan, Vaulks; Colwill, Harris; Moore

Subs: Smithies, McGuinness, Collins, Sang, Brown, Evans, Bowen



TEAM NEWS:



Still not recovered Isaac Vassell & Lee Tomlin and both still not even fit for U23 duty, never mind first team duty.


Joe Ralls, pulled his groin last Friday up at the Vale.

Ryan Giles, had been "coughing and spluttering" in the build-up to the Forest match and such is life in a Covid world, he was also left at home.


Leandro Bacuna limped off before Forest game began and hopefully the results will show him ok later today.

Thankfully Mick McCarthy said:”We have plenty of strength in depth in this squad and we are not hindered by the injuries.”




Cardiff City fans can pay on the day and we have been given at least 3,000 tickets

LETS TAKE OVER 2,000 FANS / ITS NOT A LONG TRIP & WE ARE UNBEATEN AWAY

Coventry City are unbeaten in their three home league games this season, with three wins out of three, while Cardiff City are unbeaten in their four away league games this season with two wins and two draws


Can I stream or watch the match on TV?

This is match is available to watch Cardiff City TV.

The Opposition's Manager - Mark Robins

Mark Robins has been in charge of Coventry since 2017. He guided them to promotion from League Two in 2018 and then got them promoted back to the Championship in 2020. They also won the EFL Trophy on 2017. He succesfully kept them in the Championship last season.

He had previously been manager of Coventry between 2012 and 2013.

He has also held managerial roles at Rotherham, Barnsley, Huddersfield and Scunthorpe.

As a player, he was best known for scoring a goal for Manchester United in the FA Cup that reportedly saved Sir Alex Ferguson's job in 1990.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Viktor Gyokeres has already scored three league goals this season.

Martyn Waghorn is a new signing for the Sky Blues, and scored his first league goal for the club in Saturday's win over Middlesbrough.

Previous Meeting 

We won 3-1 at home to Coventry in February.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Coventry City: Moore, Dabo, Hyam, McFadzean, Clarke-Salter, Maatsen, Hamer, Allen, O'Hare, Waghorn, Gyokeres

Cardiff City: Phillips, Ng, Flint, Morrison, Nelson, Bagan, Vaulks, Pack, Bowen, Harris, Collins

Form - Last Three Games

Coventry City 2-0 Middlesbrough
QPR 2-0 Coventry City
Coventry City 2-1 Reading

Nottingham Forest 1-2 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 1-2 Bristol City
Cardiff City 0-2 Brighton & Hove Albion

Match Odds

Coventry City - 21/20
Cardiff City - 13/5
Draw - 23/10

Predictions

Post your predictions below 

over 1100 tickets sold, 2 games in a few days is expensive so well done everyone.

I think we’ll win. We’ve got the feel good factor from yesterday and I think Coventry’s position in the table is deceptive. They’ve got 4W and 2L but played and beaten the teams in 15th, 19th, 22nd and 24th.

1100 fans is fantastic. I can imagine ticket sales saw a big boost yesterday

Cardiff City fans can pay on the day and we have been given at least 3,000 tickets


Only 4th away game of the season and we have won 2 and drawn 1, Bluebirds undefeated


I can see massive away support for this, only up the road and many of our fans not been there

We also have a big following from Abergavenny, Monmouth right up to the Midlands

Think a draw but I said that about Forest.
Think our starting 11 needs changing and would like to see Colwill from the off,imagine him on one wing and Giles on the other.
Come on Bloooobirds win another football match.

100% ITS PAY ON THE GATE FOR CARDIFF FANS

I be there

Does anyone know if the red button works if you are watching the match on a laptop through sky go on the red button. Have sky sports but having problems with a communal aerial which won't be fixed until after Wednesday. Never done the red button on a lap top but presume you can.

TEAM NEWS:



Still not recovered Isaac Vassell & Lee Tomlin and both still not even fit for U23 duty, never mind first team duty.


Joe Ralls, pulled his groin last Friday up at the Vale.

Ryan Giles, had been "coughing and spluttering" in the build-up to the Forest match and such is life in a Covid world, he was also left at home.


Leandro Bacuna limped off before Forest game began and hopefully the results will show him ok later today.

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A win at Coventry puts us right back in the mix...

Latest odds

Coventry 6/5

Draw 23/10

Cardiff 12/5

Looking at the Coventry forum they pretty much all feel confident of a Home win

Does anyone know if the red button works if you are watching the match on a laptop through sky go on the red button. Have sky sports but having problems with a communal aerial which won't be fixed until after Wednesday. Never done the red button on a lap top but presume you can.

I’m pretty certain is does.

Looking at the Coventry forum they pretty much all feel confident of a Home win

cant blame them they have won every home game so far.. doing well this season so far

Looking at the Coventry forum they pretty much all feel confident of a Home win

cant blame them they have won every home game so far.. doing well this season so far

And as we always say it’s now time for their winning run to come to an end

Does anyone know if the red button works if you are watching the match on a laptop through sky go on the red button. Have sky sports but having problems with a communal aerial which won't be fixed until after Wednesday. Never done the red button on a lap top but presume you can.

It didn't when I last tried that at the start of last season, but they may have updated it now so you can.

Tough game tonight, Coventry have made a good start and rightly the bookies' favourite.

But it's a game we should look to be winning.

3-1 Cardiff is my prediction

Does anyone know if the red button works if you are watching the match on a laptop through sky go on the red button. Have sky sports but having problems with a communal aerial which won't be fixed until after Wednesday. Never done the red button on a lap top but presume you can.

It didn't when I last tried that at the start of last season, but they may have updated it now so you can.

I know they have said something about it works through the TV (obviously) and then if you're watching through the Sky Sports App.

Not sure about on the laptop - my guess is if it's Sky Go you're using on the laptop then no but always worth trying!

Mark Robins will be without skipper Liam Kelly as he continues his comeback from injury.

He played 45 minutes for the Sky Blues’ under-23s last week and upped that to 71 minutes against Millwall’s development side on Monday afternoon.

Team news - Cardiff City



Phillips; Ng, Morrison (c), Flint, Nelson; Pack, Bagan, Vaulks; Colwill, Harris; Moore

Subs: Smithies, McGuinness, Collins, Sang, Brown, Evans, Bowen

Corner comes to nothing and Coventry hit back.

Gyokeres again is the man they look for.

He's forced to pull back from the byline and feed Maatsen, who's low ball across goal is eventually worked out to Dabo on the right of the penalty area. His ball is poor and Vaulks mops up.

Our fans sounding loud on TV. Can't hear Coventry.

1-0

Good finish

1-0

Good finish

In fairness that was an excellent break & finish. Our snail like defence were just too slow.

how many times do we get caught on the break

Good goal, as Coventry run straight through the middle after a Bluebird throw...

LATEST: COVENTRY CITY 1 - 0 CARDIFF CITY

Push the centre backs up for a long throw, but then decide to go short?! Doesn’t make sense!!

1-0

Good finish

In fairness that was an excellent break & finish. Our snail like defence were just too slow.

Was a simple task of tackling him or blocking shot but made no effort to do either... plus cane came from a messed up throwin ffs put it in middle ... they obviously know about our slow defence as keeping 3 up at corners ect

Lovely cross from Ng towards the far post is punched away from Moore.

Ball eventually comes to Ng again and looks to dink a half-volley back towards goal, but it's blocked and goes out for a corner.

Comes to nothing as Moore eventually claims.