MATCH THREAD: " CARDIFF CITY v STOKE CITY " MATCH THREAD

CARDIFF CITY v STOKE CITY
Wednesday 16th March, 7.45pm
Sky Bet Championship
Cardiff City Stadium 



It’s pay on the night for both sets of fans.




Cardiff City will be without Alfie Doughty for the clash with Stoke City, due to the left-back being ineligible to feature against his parent club.




Fully fit squad available

How's the squad's fitness? Any concerns?

"We have got a fully fit squad. It’s a nice problem to have."

Steve Morison



Team News:


"Everyone’s fit. Nelson is back on the grass last week, so it’s too soon for him. But touch wood it’s a clean bill of health. Apart from the long-term injured we’ve got a full squad to pick from."


Max Watters is still out after rolling his ankle in training, while Curtis Nelson (calf) is also absent.

Sean Morrison and Isaac Vassell have both been ruled out for the season.


Can I stream or watch the match on TV?

Live on Cardiff City TV.

The Opposition's Manager - Michael O'Neill

O'Neill has been in charge of Stoke since November 2019. They were struggling at the bottom of the league when he took over but he has turned them into a solid Championship team.

His previous jobs include being manager of the Northern Ireland national team for nine years, where he successfully led them to the European Championship Finals in 2016.

Opposition Dangerous Players

Jacob Brown has nine goals and four assists in the league this season

Previous Meeting 

We drew 3-3 at Stoke in October

Team News - Predicted Line-Ups

Cardiff City: Smithies, Drameh, Ng, Flint, McGuinness, Doughty, Wintle, Ralls, Doyle, Davies, Hugill

Stoke City: Bonham, Duhaney, Jagielka, Chester, Harwood-Bellis, Tymon, Allen, Thompson, Baker, Fletcher, Brown

Form - Last Three Competitive Games

Cardiff City 0-0 Preston North End
QPR 1-2 Cardiff City
Cardiff City 1-0 Derby County

Peterborough United 2-2 Stoke City
Barnsley 1-1 Stoke City
Stoke City 0-1 Blackpool

Match Odds

Cardiff City - 8/5
Stoke City - 8/5
Draw - 23/10

Predictions

Post your predictions below 

Team News:


"Everyone’s fit. Nelson is back on the grass last week, so it’s too soon for him. But touch wood it’s a clean bill of health. Apart from the long-term injured we’ve got a full squad to pick from."





Max Watters is still out after rolling his ankle in training, while Curtis Nelson (calf) is also absent.

Sean Morrison and Isaac Vassell have both been ruled out for the season.

That 3-3 draw was unreal at their place earlier this season. Morisons first game in charge.

We had a fourth goal disallowed but if it stood that would have been the best comeback ever for us.

Te way things are going at the moment I'm expecting a dull 0-0 draw like against Preston. Just want to see this season through now.

MARCH 2022



UPDATED:

‘’Derby County 21 points deducted / Fighting every week

‘Reading 6 points deducted

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I think Morison will shuffle the pack a bit,Uche,Colwill,Valks And Bagan May get a start.2-1

Stoke are on a pretty crap run of form, 1 win in their last 10. I’m hoping for a comfortable win to get some confidence into the team before the derby next month.

2-0 win I’m going with

I think Morison will shuffle the pack a bit,Uche,Colwill,Valks And Bagan May get a start.2-1

I wouldn't be surprised with those changes although, depending on fitness, if he decides to start Uche I'd like to see Davies alongside him rather than Colwill just to see how that pairing works.

Pre-Stoke City facts:

Cardiff City have won two of their last 11 league matches against Stoke City (D5 L4).


Stoke are winless in three away league matches against Cardiff (D2 L1) since a 1-0 win in August 2007 with a goal from Ryan Shawcross.


Cardiff have won four of their last five league matches during the week (L1), keeping a clean sheet in each of those victories. This comes after a six-game losing run in such games.


Stoke have collected just 12 points from their 11 midweek Championship games this season (W3 D3 L5), though two of their three wins did come away from home, one of which was in Wales at Swansea in August.




Having beaten Swansea back in August, Stoke City are looking to win more than once in Wales in the same Football League campaign for the first time since 1999-00, when they beat Wrexham and Cardiff in the third tier under Gary Megson.

Does anyone know if this is on the red button on sky?

CRAYFISH

Games all on red button tonight tuesday it usually follows the following night in the same format be odd if they left just cardiffs game off
but never beyond sky.

Fully fit squad available

How's the squad's fitness? Any concerns?

"We have got a fully fit squad. It’s a nice problem to have."

Steve Morison

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A Woolmer - has been booked to ref this game .

May have missed it somewhere but surely Doughty can’t play tonight as Stoke are his parent club. Even worse that he got dragged off on Saturday due to a poor performance. Could have done with him having the 90 before the break.

What's the latest team news?

Cardiff City will be without Alfie Doughty for the clash with Stoke City, due to the left-back being ineligible to feature against his parent club.



Elsewhere, Cardiff have reported a clean bill of health, meaning Curtis Nelson is back available for selection.

Max Watters (ankle), Sean Morrison (ACL) and Isaac Vassell remain the long-term absentees.

What are the latest betting odds?

Cardiff City - 7/5

Draw - 11/5


Stoke City- 2/1

Arrived in Cardiff.

Hopefully a more energetic performance tonight, would like to see Colwill come into the team to give him another chance to impress.

Hopefully three points tonight.

i hope woolmer does not have his normal game

throw in to city bagan crosses no one there

city having loads of pessession

flint putting some very good passes in

good defending from mcguiness

free kick to city just outsive stoke pen are

began misses a sitter

0-1

sorry goalie saves good cross in by demeh

sorry goalie saves good cross in by demeh

one nil down

ng should have shut the stoke player down

commentator mentioned Smithies has the 2nd lowest show percentage saves in the league and one minute later Stoke score

harris nisses

Terrible goal to give away all around.

Really loose clearing, must have been about 3 clearances just given away. Followed by a shot that should have been saved.