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The simple outcome for Cardiff City to be promoted on Sunday is to beat Reading.
Then Cardiff will go up to the Premier League and there will be nothing Fulham can do about it.
City need to match Fulham's results so the Bluebirds could still go up with a draw or a defeat providing Fulham do no better.
There will be a sell out 32,000 or more crowd at CCS with around 2,000 Reading fans making the trip. They are not safe from relegation but it would take a specific set of results to see them go down.
Cardiff are without Aron Gunnarsson for what they hope will be a promotion party at home to Reading on Sunday, live on Sky Sports Football from 12pm (ko 12:30pm)
The Iceland midfielder has undergone knee surgery this week and misses out as Cardiff chase the win which will take them into the Premier League.
Marko Grujic or Craig Bryson are the favourites to replace Gunnarsson, who still hopes to make next month's World Cup in Russia. Bluebirds boss Neil Warnock also has to decide who gets the nod up up front between Kenneth Zohore and Gary Madine.
Reading welcome back defender Paul McShane (groin) and winger Callum Harriott (hamstring) as they seek the point which will almost certainly guarantee their Championship status. Defender Leandro Bacuna is also available after completing a three-match suspension.
Loan signing Tommy Elphick is contention for only his second Royals start after recovering from a knee problem. But fellow defender Tyler Blackett misses out again after his recent red card at Sheffield Wednesday.
Opta stats
Cardiff have won three of their last four home league meetings with Reading (L1) although they lost 1-0 last season.
The Royals are unbeaten in their last four league games against Cardiff (W2 D2).
Cardiff have won 13 of their 20 Championship games in 2018 - only Fulham have won more since the turn of the year (16).
By contrast, only Sunderland (two) have won fewer Championship games than Reading (three) in 2018.
Neil Warnock is set to face Reading in a home match for the first time since November 2010 with QPR, a 3-1 win - his last six games against them have all been at the Madejski Stadium.
Junior Hoilett has both scored more goals (nine) and provided more assists (11) this season than he has in any of his previous eight seasons in England.
Match Officials
ROBERT MADLEY
Harry Lennard and Marc Perry
Fourth Official: Oliver Langford
Let's do this.
Great team talk, simple and to the pointOriginally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
C'mon you Bloooooobirds
“....Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send. As for the others I expect you to rock their world. Wipe them out if that is what they choose. But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.”
Excerpt from Lt Colonel Tim Collins 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment eve-of-battle speech to his troops in Kuwait on Wednesday 19 March 2003.
Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure
Magnanimous not gracious
Team today then?
Which 2 out of Grujic Patterson and Bryson?
Manga or peltier at right back?
Zohore or madine in attack?
Get into them! Fck them up!
Etheridge
Peltier
Bennett
Morrison
Bamba
Paterson
Bryson
Ralls
Mendez-Laing
Hoilett
Zohore
That's the team for me. We have good options on the bench if we need a goal and Manga is great cover at the back.
It's going to be physical today.
Blòoooooooooobirds! !!!
See my note above 💪
"...ducks fly together.."
Coach Gordon Bombay, The Mighty Ducks
There's always one
That's the team I think we'll start with.
Brum one up against Fulham....
That's two penalties we could have had. This ref doesn't want to give us a goal though.
Brum now two up against Fulham...
Weird results so far, Brum two up against Fulham, Sunderland two up against Wolves, Leeds winning and Bristol City three goals down at home. Come on City...
For all of the talk before the game it doesn't look like we are feeling the pressure. Good half and could have easily got one or two. Reading look really nervous. Surely it's just a matter of time.
Fulham have blown it good and proper.
Not being biased but 3 pens not awarded to us!!!.
Was it a penalty on hoilett? Certainly looked like from where I am sitting
No, it wasn't. Bad defending, but not a pen. The one on Morrison was more of a penalty.
Is it time for the six million dollar man to come on and send us up? Zohore has played alright but hasn't got his shooting boots on today.
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