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Match facts
- Cardiff have only managed a victory in one of their last five Championship home games against Sheffield United (D2 L2), with the last two meetings ending 1-1.
- However, the Welsh outfit have only lost one of their last eight league encounters against the Blades (W3 D4).
- Neil Warnock is set to meet his former club Sheffield United for the eighth time since he left them in 2007; he's lost only one of those seven meetings (W3 D3), a 2-0 defeat as Crystal Palace manager in December 2009.
- Cardiff have won both of their opening two games to a league season for the first time since 2011-12 - the Bluebirds have never won their first three games of a league season in their entire history.
- Sheffield United's Billy Sharp has scored just 12 goals in his 61 Championship appearances since the start of 2013-14 - this compared to 51 goals in 90 League One appearances over the last two seasons.
They did well to cover his bald patch. Do you reckon he knows it's there?
I vaguely remember vowing to hate them I think from a game in 2009 when their players were taking the piss after helping to scupper our promotion chances.
Always hated playing them. Fuelled by the thug Chris Morgan.
But, that said, one of my best away games ever was when we beat them 4-3 with Whitts getting a hat-trick,
and they had an injury time goal dis-allowed
The first goal, was originally ruled out for offside as well, wasn't it? 4 goals in 4 minutes before half time I think. Had to go for a pint to take the edge off!
We were leading 4-2 into injury time, I think the board went up for 6 minutes, we all groaned and a kid next to me said, "don't worry, they've got to score two". "Just you wait, this is Cardiff". They immediately scored through James Harper and then I think it was that little rodent Stephen Quinn scored, his shirt came off, jumping in the crowd, full works etc, only for it to be ruled out.
4 changes to the starting XI
Can we get Lecter's score prediction please?
Big game for hoilett IMO. He's a talented guy, but hasn't been showing it often enough. If he can put in back to back great games then maybe he can build a run of form.
I think it'll be much trickier than the villa game, Sheffield utd will at least be a cohesive team
Tomlin starts. Damour on bench. Manga starts as well.
No Joe Bennett in the squad... maybe it is happening? More likely he is still hurt?
Etheridge
Manga
Bamba
Morrison
Richards
Ralls
Gunnar
Tomlin
Hoilett
NML
Big Ken
Subs
Murphy
Peltier
Halford
Pilkington
Damour
Kennedy
Ward
Gone for a more attacking line up on paper but I can't see how more attacking than we can be since last Saturday?
So manga playing right back then?