3) Cardiff could surpass even Derby
Chris Sutton soon retracted his pre-season claim that Cardiff “will go down – maybe with a record low points tally”, but he was not alone in expressing that opinion. Here was a Championship squad, led by a Championship manager on a Championship budget: this was no recipe for Premier League survival.
Yet with over a quarter of the season gone, Cardiff are more than holding their own. They are not scoring goals regularly, yet have more than four other sides. Their defence has been an inevitable issue, yet they have conceded just two more than Burnley. And in ten games, they have already recorded 45% of the points Derby managed in 2007/08. They might still go down, but this has been far from the embarrassment that was forecast.
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