Cardiff vs Bristol City: Match Thread and Pre Match Build Up

Cardiff City vs Bristol City

Match Thread ​

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Cardiff City Stadium
16th February 2013
Kick Off 13:00​

NPower Championship Table

1 Cardiff 30 21 64
2 Leicester 30 26 53
3 Watford 31 18 53
4 Hull 30 8 53
5 Crystal Palace 31 15 52
6 Middlesbrough 30 3 47
7 Brighton 30 9 45
8 Blackburn 30 4 43
9 Burnley 31 1 43
10 Derby 30 4 42
11 Leeds United 30 -6 42
12 Millwall 31 -2 41
13 Nottm Forest 31 -4 41
14 Blackpool 31 4 40
15 Charlton 31 -2 40
16 Birmingham 31 -7 38
17 Bolton 30 -1 37
18 Huddersfield 31 -18 37
19 Sheff Wed 31 -9 36
20 Ipswich 31 -19 35
21 Wolves 31 -8 34
22 Barnsley 31 -11 34
23 Bristol City 31 -14 31
24 Peterborough 30 -12 30


The last time these 2 teams met each over, Bristol city gained bragging rights in a 4-2 win. New signing Sam Baldock scored on his debut as Bristol city eased to victory. Since then though Cardiff have had the better season, Sitting 11 points clear at the top. Bristol city currently in the relegation zone know a win could get them out and bring others into danger. Ex robins striker Nicky Maynard who failed at West ham and eventually moved to Cardiff where he took a season long injury will be gutted not to play against his former club, Of which he wouldn't receive a warm welcome



Cardiff City

A Little About Them


Full name Cardiff City Football Club

Nickname(s) The Bluebirds

Founded 1899 (as Riverside A.F.C.)

Ground Cardiff City Stadium Cardiff (capacity: 26,828)

Chairman Chan Tien Ghee

Manager Malky Mackay

2011–12 Championship, 6th

Last 3 Results

Huddersfield 0-0 Cardiff

Leeds 0-1 Cardiff

Blackpool 1-2 Cardiff

Top 3 Goal Scorers

Helguson
8
Whittingham
7
Gunnarsson
6

Possible Starting XI

01 Marshall
02 McNaughton 05 Hudson 12 Connolly 03 Taylor
07 Whittingham 11 Conway 13 Kim Bo-Kyung 17 Gunnarsson
14 Smith 39 Bellamy ​

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Bristol City

Last 3 Results

Bristol City 2-0 Nottingham Forest

Blackburn 2-0 Bristol City

Bristol City 2-0 Watford

Top 3 Goal scorers

Davies
10
Baldock
9
Adomah
5

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Possible Starting XI

01 Heaton
19 Moloney 04 Fontaine 05 Nyatanga 17 Cunningham
27 Adomah 25 Elliott 10 Kelly 21 Anderson
16 Davies 07 Baldock ​

Memorable Games

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/8470722.stm
Cardiff City produced an astonishing display to brush aside fellow play-off hopefuls Bristol City and move into fourth in the Championship table​

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/9322914.stm
Brett Pitman scored his seventh goal in as many games as Bristol City sent Cardiff crashing to a second successive defeat in the Severnside derby.

Key Match Ups​

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Hope Bellemy ain't fit, he will destroy Fonts and Tangle for pace. Even if Carey is fit I can't see him containing Bellemy.

 

This is a game that will show us how far we have improved since SODS arrival.
Certainly if Cardiff take us lightly as Watford did then happy days.
I am going for a 2 - 2 draw with Davies and Stead scoring.

 

We've got FC as an option for pace if Bellers didn't make it for any reason. So there'll be pace up front for us whatever happens.

 

We play a solid middle paring, Have you noticed lately pace doesn't mean nothing compared to what it did under McInnes, SoDs got us tight in the middle, The only time we look vulnerable is down the wings. Even then we have Anderson, Adomah, Cunningham and Moloney to protect the flanks. All of them are fast. Strikers with pace as I said, Won't effect us as much as it did

 

I see from above that the Cardiff chairman is Chan Tien Ghee.

Is he a close or distant relative of the previous manager of the blue and white quarters brigade, Mr McGhee?

 

Still think we struggle against pace when forest played with pace they looked threatening to say the least

 

Is this the 1st time we couldn't wear red away to cardiff?

 

Yes, I cannot ever remember an away match where we did not play in red. What a farce!

 

May the farce be with you.

That's life my friend - some you win, some you lose. Doubt it'll make any difference who's wearing red, the result is all that matters.

 

Hopefully football comes through on this one and we stuff the franchise leaving their plastic fans at LEGOLAND shell-shocked.

 

...."franchise", "plastic fans", "legoland"........

You guys are really struggling for something decent and original on here as well as on the bloody pitch.......

 

But all the above is completely true though.

 

I'am not one for all this crap talk...you will find us a well organised team now under SO'D sparkey.

 

BJA - I'm sure you're right mate.

I had a lot of time for O'Driscoll when he was at Doncaster - bloody good manager who was poorly treated by that excuse for a football club called Forest.

Wizey - I did see your statistics but the only ones I'm intersted in are the current league table and the fact that we're 34 points ahead of you.

(maybe still 34, maybe 31 or even 37 come Saturday, but I'll take where we are right now thank you)

 

That's a fair enough point of view to take, though if you break down those fixtures, it indicates a much wider gap than you allude to.

4 of our 5 were played away from home, whereas 3 of your 5 were at home and we still got 2 more points than you.

You can attempt to prove anything with statistics - it'll be tested on Saturday.