FT: CARDIFF CITY 1 - 3 BLACKBURN ROVERS. Match thread

Saturday 9th November, ko 12:30pm
Live on Sky Sports Football

Cardiff are the main live Sky game on Saturday lunchtime as they look to make it five wins in a row at CCS since October 1st. The visitors, Blackburn Rovers, have lost their last three games and have failed to score in their last four games.

Match Officials:

Referee: GAVIN WARD
Assistants: Lee Venamore and Matthew McGrath
Fourth Official : Adam Herczeg

Match Facts:

• Cardiff have won one of their last 12 matches against Blackburn Rovers in all competitions (D5 L6), a 1-0 home win in the Championship in October 2022.
• Blackburn have failed to score in either of their last two league visits to Cardiff (D1 L1) since a 1-0 victory in the 2021-22 season.
• Cardiff City have won each of their last four home league matches – the Bluebirds haven’t had a longer home winning run since between January and March 2018 under Neil Warnock (seven in a row).
• Blackburn Rovers have won just three of their last 20 away league matches (D6 L11) and have lost each of their last three on the road.
• Cardiff have won each of their first four home Championship matches under manager Omer Riza. The last manager to win his first five home games at this level was James Shan in March/April 2019 when in charge of West Brom.

COME ON CITY COME ON :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Tyrhys Dolan will miss Blackburn Rovers' trip to Cardiff City after picking up his fifth booking of the season.

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Gavin Ward referees again. He was in charge of the recent victory over Millwall. He let a lot of strong challenges go that evening and it led to a reasonably entertaining contest, even if the quality of the football was low.

I hope he does so again tomorrow - I can't stand overly-fussy refs. But there will no doubt be moans and groans on here and elsewhere if he does, because that's how it seems to be these days. Fans grizzling about referees is something that has definitely increased in recent years. It's become really boring in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

Gavin Ward referees again. He was in charge of the recent victory over Millwall. He let a lot of strong challenges go that evening and it led to a reasonably entertaining contest, even if the quality of the football was low.

I hope he does so again tomorrow - I can't stand overly-fussy refs. But there will no doubt be moans and groans on here and elsewhere if he does, because that's how it seems to be these days. Fans grizzling about referees is something that has definitely increased in recent years. It's become really boring in my opinion.

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Managers particularly in the PL are worse than the fans.

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Originally Posted by Hilts

Managers particularly in the PL are worse than the fans.

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You should sit where I sit in the Ninian Stand...

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

You should sit where I sit in the Ninian Stand...

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I'll tell the others you said that......:hehe::ayatollah:

Decent starting 11 apart from the lack of a striker
https://x.com/CardiffCityFC/status/1855211318522826806

Three changes are made from the side that faced Luton Town last time out, with Jesper Daland, Alex Robertson and Chris Willock coming into the starting XI.

Cardiff City: Alnwick (C), Ng, Goutas, Daland, O’Dowda, Robertson, Turnbull, R Colwill, Tanner, Willock, El Ghazi.

Substitutes: Horvath, Fish, Collins, Bagan, Rinomhota, Siopis, Ashford, Kanga, Méïté.

Decent side but worrying about the lack of striker. Makes it more surprising that Reindhorf played yesterday and not on the bench today.

Sorry if it's been covered elsewhere, but is Chambers injured, he's not even on the bench?

Robinson is a real miss, he transformed the game against Norwich by holding the ball up and getting us further up the pitch. It didn’t work first half when Willock played that role. I’m surprised Reindorf isn’t on the bench. Meite I get as he is physical, if not very good, but Kanga is just using up a space on the bench .

Will be interesting to see Goutas and Daland together, Chambers must be injured then?

if we had a striker that would be a decent side

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Originally Posted by Don Corleone

Robinson is a real miss, he transformed the game against Norwich by holding the ball up and getting us further up the pitch. It didn’t work first half when Willock played that role. I’m surprised Reindorf isn’t on the bench. Meite I get as he is physical, if not very good, but Kanga is just using up a space on the bench .

Will be interesting to see Goutas and Daland together, Chambers must be injured then?

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Definitely! I think Daland has shown us better glimpses than what Chambers has shown but whether the partnership works is a whole separate issue.

God, I wish we had a striker.

Considering Tan likes players that shoot (from anywhere on the pitch), you would have thought he'd push a bit harder for better options at that position.

Kanga’s agent must have something on Tan.

He has offered less than nothing in every one of his appearances.

Clearly he is not rated as he’s not even worth starting when Robinson is injured.

Get the lad Reindorf into the first team match day squad from now on, Riza.

Sean Morrison on Sky Sports saying he believes Colwill can make it in the top half of the Prem.

Let's see it today Rubin, show 'em lad :ayatollah:

We're so reliant on Robinson up front.
Kanga's done nothing and is clearly considered a worse option than a winger up top - why he's even on the bench then is a mystery.
Meite clearly is nowhere near the player he was before his ACL injury.
Shame Davies is injured still.
Etete has played half a comeback match for the U21s but hasn't impressed much previously anyway - maybe he'd do better in a Riza team.
Ashford's not a number 9 type striker.
Reindorf should at least be on the bench - it was announced that he was moving up to the 1st team wasn't it, but he's just carried on playing for the U21s.
Just over 7 weeks until the transfer window opens!

Really promising start. Oh for a striker to get on the end of some of those teasing balls or make the one run to unlock the defense.

Yikes.

First Blackburn goal in over 7 hours.

Weimann always seems to score against us.

That’s a great goal tbf

Half-arsed defending from Daland led to that goal.

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That’s a great goal tbf

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Brilliant goal but Perry has had a stinker so far, two needless free kicks given away and then he's made a real mess of his positioning there

Weimann has grown a lot since his days on Jackass..