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CARDIFF CITY v BLACKBURN ROVERS
Saturday 15th January, 12.30pm
Sky Bet Championship
Cardiff City Stadium 




Match now 12.30pm

Behind closed doors thanks to Drakeford




STEVE MORISON INJURY UPDATE:




Thursday 13th January 2022


“Bowen and Sang are both back.”




Is Kieffer Moore available to play?


“No. Covid, he hasn’t trained, he’s not fit.“





Is Joe Ralls available?

“Yeah, he was just rested [against Preston).”


Watters update

“He is training and fit,Whether he is involved at the weekend I am yet to decide.”



“Isaac Vassell we will see in February”




TEAM NEWS

KIEFFER MOORE 50-50

Sam Bowen injured

Isaac Vassell out another month injured



Can I stream or watch the match on TV?

This match is live on Cardiff City TV.

The Opposition's Manager - Tony Mowbray

Experienced manager Mowbray has been in charge of Blackburn since February 2017.

He had previously been in charge of clubs such as West Brom, Celtic and Middlesbrough.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Ben Brereton Diaz has 20 goals in the league this season.

Previous Meeting 

Blackburn beat us 5-1 in September.

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Smithies, Ng, McGuinness, Morrison, Nelson, Bagan, Ralls, Vaulks, Colwill, Harris, Collins

Blackburn Rovers: Kaminski, Nyambe, Lenihan, Van Hecke, Wharton, Pickering, Travis, Rothwell, Khadra, Buckley, Brereton Diaz

Form - Last Three Competitive Games

Cardiff City 2-1 Preston North End (AET)
West Bromwich Albion 1-1 Cardiff City
AFC Bournemouth 3-0 Cardiff City

Wigan Athletic 3-2 Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Huddersfield Town
Blackburn Rovers 2-1 Barnsley

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 15/8
Blackburn Rovers - 3/2
Draw - 23/10

Predictions

Post your predictions below 

Match now 12.30pm

Behind closed doors thanks to Drakeford

TEAM NEWS

KIEFFER MOORE 50-50

Sam Bowen injured

Isaac Vassell out another month injured

Blackburn - Last 12 Championship games - W 9 : D 2 : L 1 .

Can't see us getting anything out of this one.

Blackburn look a handful at the moment.

STEVE MORISON INJURY UPDATE:




Thursday 13th January 2022


“Bowen and Sang are both back.”




Is Kieffer Moore available to play?


“No. Covid, he hasn’t trained, he’s not fit.“





Is Joe Ralls available?

“Yeah, he was just rested [against Preston).”


Watters update

“He is training and fit,Whether he is involved at the weekend I am yet to decide.”



“Isaac Vassell we will see in February”

Issues watching the game today but this is the City line up...

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 0 BLACKBURN ROVERS

1 nil Blackburn.
Great back peddle tactics by the city defence. Pathetic watching there player run from the halfway line while back peddling then hits it home from outside the box

GOAL: BLACKBURN ROVERS

Defence caught out again and Smithies should have done better..

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 BLACKBURN ROVERS

Sven wrote:Issues watching the game today but this is the City line up...

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 0 BLACKBURN ROVERS

1 nil downs smithies should have saved that

Given the freedom of the Cardiff city stadium and pops it in the net,pathetic.

Plymuff Bloobird wrote:Given the freedom of the Cardiff city stadium and pops it in the net,pathetic.

Yep great to see the two center halfs running back and back and back like I said above. Embarassing really I get 10 yards but to back peddle untill he scored running from the halfway line ffs and nothing

What impact is Hudson having?

city corner good shot off vaulks good save

A bit of a lull right now, as injury stoppage takes its time

Good run from Perry Ng and a shot; but he is unable to get any power behind it and the keeper saves easily

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 BLACKBURN ROVERS

city playing well but still behind

collins taken outno foul awarded

City getting forward without too much success, as Ralls has a shot easily blocked

Blackburn initially look threatening but City doing okay (goal apart) and Blackburn unable to gain much momentum, although they just forced a (soft) long-range save from Smithies

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 BLACKBURN ROVERS

HALF-TIME

Goal apart, City have had a more than decent first half and possibly performance-wise onevof their best of thecseason

We just HAVE to stop those type of goals that are far too frequent!

Having said that, I can see some changes that are surely down to Mark Hudson's influence?

Impressed with Cody Drameh so far; he's getting forward and into some good positions before putting some good passes in

HALF-TIME SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 BLACKBURN ROVERS

No creativity and no width!! 3 CBs AGAIN!!! And 3 CMs!!

FFS. So desperate for that one more player up top.

Behind to a very good finish and struggling to open them up but overall not bad. Drameh looks a very decent signing and unlucky with a really soft yellow card. Big question is can Morison find something on the bench to change what we've seen so far.

jimmy_rat wrote:No creativity and no width!! 3 CBs AGAIN!!! And 3 CMs!!

FFS. So desperate for that one more player up top.

I agree on the shape and the striker; but I think we have created and with that extra body up front we might have fared better

Steve Morison seems to add attack in most second halves so fingers crossed

After a start where Blackburn had most of the possession, City turned it around in the stats...

City start the second half with vigour and Drameh does well at the far post to head across and it only needed a City striker to convert

Blackburn struggling a bit and a yellow card conceded

Tapped short to Vaulks and easily dealt with when a kick into the box may have fared better

City doing okay though...

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 BLACKBURN ROVERS

looks like we will be making some subs, our pssession is off the scale

City doing okay here without that finishing edge

Stats are backing us up, as Blackburn are disappointing

Perry Ng booked (seemingly for dissent)

LATEST SCORE: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 BLACKBURN ROVERS

shows how these refs are full of themselves NG getting booked standing about 5 feet away from the ref and the ref called him to come closer what an idiot ref

Sven wrote:

jimmy_rat wrote:No creativity and no width!! 3 CBs AGAIN!!! And 3 CMs!!

FFS. So desperate for that one more player up top.

I agree on the shape and the striker; but I think we have created and with that extra body up front we might have fared better

Steve Morison seems to add attack in most second halves so fingers crossed

Yeah. That's kind of what I meant. Too often do we get the ball in the final third and do nothing. There's no pass on or no one pulls the trigger! So the ball goes backwards.

pack and davies on

pack long thow city corner