FT: CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 LEICESTER CITY. Match thread

3pm Saturday.

Message posted online by Vince.

Arrangements from Cardiff City FC for Saturday fixture against Leicester;

As the players walk out the tunnel the attached 30x8m flag will be surfed up the Ninian stand between blocks 114 and 116 from pitchside to the back; it will then be surfed towards the Leicester supporters across 116,117 until reaching 118 & 119 where Leicester city supporters, and stewards will take the flag from Cardiff supporters and surf the flag into the Leicester fans to hold a loft during the minute silence as we pay our respect.

We urge everyone who is attending the match to take their seats early for the tribute to start and receive the flag in the Ninian stand.

Leicester City supporters are planning their own tributes during the game which you are welcome to join in with.

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I will be pleased if we can nick a point. Leics will be well up for the game. Whatever they say.

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Originally Posted by jeremy corbyn

I will be pleased if we can nick a point. Leics will be well up for the game. Whatever they say.

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In the circumstances a point would be a reasonable result

If we can more than match them for energy we can take this. I'd imagine that this week has taken something out of the Leicester players. We are desperate for 3 points so let's make CCS a fortress.

<p><strong>Cardiff City v Leicester City</strong><br /><strong>Cardiff City Stadium</strong><br /><strong>Saturday 3rd November 2018, ko 3:00pm.</strong><br /><br />An emotional day at CCS as Leicester City take to the field less than a week since the KP Stadium tragedy.</p>
<p><strong>Early team news:</strong><br /><br />Cardiff welcome back Harry Arter for Leicester's visit to the Welsh capital.<br /><br />Arter has recovered from an ankle injury which forced him to miss the 4-1 defeat at Liverpool last weekend, but Jazz Richards is out with a knock picked up in training and Joe Ralls completes a three-match ban<br /><br />Daniel Amartey will miss the trip to Cardiff. The 23-year-old midfielder suffered a serious ankle injury during the home draw with West Ham last weekend and he is set to be sidelined for around four months after undergoing surgery.<br /><br />Captain Wes Morgan is available again after serving a ban, while Matty James resumed training this week after a long-term Achilles problem.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><br /><strong>The Managers:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Neil Warnock:<br /></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">"I don't think anybody knows what the situation is going to be this week. It is surreal.<br /><br />"We have prepared as well as we can but I haven't got a clue what is going to happen on the pitch.<br /><br />"Football pales into insignificance when you see what has happened and how important life is. Tragedies such as this are so few and far between that they do hit home.<br /><br />"It is going to be a difficult time for both teams and supporters.<br /><br />"I think our fans have been fantastic. They have done a giant flag with the Thai emblem to be passed around and it will be quite emotional for our fans.<br /><br />"Things like this unite supporters.<br /><br />"Sean Morrison had a couple of meetings with me, to make sure it was appropriate for the Leicester players.<br /><br />"There will be tributes - our chairman, in particular, wanted to pay tribute from Vincent (Tan, owner) and everyone at the club.<br /><br />"We will have a minute's silence and a moment to reflect. Then, somehow, two teams have to get on with a game of football.<br /><br />"It is an important game but it seems irrelevant really, talking about the game, when you see the things that have happened this week."</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Claude Puel:<br /></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&ldquo;We play to honour a man who has done so much for our club.<br /><br />&ldquo;The result is not important but our desire, our actions, to give our best on the pitch, and to honour our chairman is the most important thing. The result is second.<br /><br />&ldquo;Our condition and focus is there. We will be ready.<br /><br />&ldquo;I hope we can find the good balance between conviction and emotion in this game. If we remain just on the emotion it will be difficult.<br /><br />&ldquo;I have confidence in them from when I saw them in training that they will give their best.&rdquo;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><strong>Match Stats:</strong></p>
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<li>Cardiff have lost just one of their last six meetings with Leicester in all competitions (W2 D3), with this their first match since March 2013 (1-1 in the Championship). They are also unbeaten in four home games against Leicester in all competitions (W1 D3), since a 2-3 defeat in the 2009-10 Championship play-offs.</li>
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<li>Warnock's side are looking to secure consecutive home top-flight wins in the same season for the first time since their last two home matches in the 1961-62 campaign.</li>
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<li>This will be Warnock's 22nd meeting with Leicester in all competitions (W8 D4 L9), and only his second in the top-flight, after his Crystal Palace side beat Nigel Pearson's Leicester 2-0 in September 2014.</li>
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<li>Leicester have won their last three top-flight meetings with Cardiff, by an aggregate score of 10-0. However, this is the first such meeting since April 1962 (Cardiff 0-4 Leicester). They have won six of their last eight Premier League games against promoted sides (D1 L1).</li>
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<li>Leicester have scored at least once in each of their last 12 Premier League games, though they've ended up losing more of these games than they've won (W5 D1 L6).</li>
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<li>None of Leicester's last 12 away Premier League games have finished level (W4 D0 L8).</li>
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<p><strong>The Officials:</strong><br /><br />Referee: Lee Probert<br />Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt<br />Fourth official: Andy Madley</p>

Don't want to be leaving space behind today with Vardy playing. Maddison has looked good hopefully can get someone on him quickly when he's got the ball. I'd love to see us looking more solid today have given away some easy goals and wasn't like that last season.

Ken Zohore not even on the bench.

Yes Bamba. Finally we get a bit of luck with the ref missing the handball. Warnock has to sort the midfield out as Leicester are getting the measure of us. We need to somehow stop them getting so much space and stop the ball being passed out of defence so easily.

We needed half time there. Game swung Leicester's way.

Surely we don't have to pump the ball into empty space even from kick off? What a waste. Same with the long throws.

I like Bobby Reid but he was poor last week and again today. We can't afford to carry players against good teams. To be fair Leicester have been brilliant.

Pathetic today

Etheridge 7
Manga 6
Bennett 6
Morrisson 5
Bamba 7
Arter 6
Gunnarsson 6
Camarasa 6
Reid 5
Murphy 7
Paterson 6

Hoilett 5

Not really good enough. Frustrating viewing. We're better than this.

Poor today. Not many good or even average performances

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Originally Posted by Shute

Etheridge 7
Manga 6
Bennett 6
Morrisson 5
Bamba 7
Arter 6
Gunnarsson 6
Camarasa 6
Reid 5
Murphy 7
Paterson 6

Hoilett 5

Not really good enough. Frustrating viewing. We're better than this.

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You seem to be agreeing with another thread I made, whereby, I was implying that Gunnarsson was fairly anonymous.


Ah, I see you edited it. :hehe:

Isn't there a rule about not surrounding the ref now? How many times did they have a group having a word with him? It must have been 8 or 9 times. Does it sour the day for Leicester fans that the ref was so much on their side, their player made contact (deliberate) with Murphy's face before the goal and that City should have had a penalty when Patterson went through on goal?

There was good periods for us today (see first 40 minutes) but frustrating day and the media will not have a proper look at the ref at all.

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Originally Posted by Shute

Yes Bamba. Finally we get a bit of luck with the ref missing the handball. Warnock has to sort the midfield out as Leicester are getting the measure of us. We need to somehow stop them getting so much space and stop the ball being passed out of defence so easily.

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What the ref (and particularly linesman) really missed was Vardy being miles offside before the shot. Lee Probert could barely have done more to help them win that. Even so, we were very poor after the first half hour. It's also a joke taking our best players off so we can just lump it forward to that absolute waste of space Madine.

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Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five

You seem to be agreeing with another thread I made, whereby, I was implying that Gunnarsson was fairly anonymous.


Ah, I see you edited it. :hehe:

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What I like about Gunnarsson is that he is usually quite composed and plays the simple pass or does run into a bit of space when the tackle is coming. Unfortunately he spends much of the game chasing shadows.

I watch Reid quite a lot because I really want him to do well but I bet he touches the ball less than any other player. How can we utilise him better?

Bamba is an important player for us. Great blocks and communicates with the defensive unit.

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Originally Posted by tomm

What the ref (and particularly linesman) really missed was Vardy being miles offside before the shot. Lee Probert could barely have done more to help them win that. Even so, we were very poor after the first half hour. It's also a joke taking our best players off so we can just lump it forward to that absolute waste of space Madine.

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I thought I was the only one who saw that. He was offside wasn't he. They didn't even mention it on the commentary.

Warnock absolutely clueless in being able to change it. Just chucking players on willy nilly and hoping for the best. Did Ward even touch the ball?

A Premier League side lumping it up aimlessly to Madine and Patterson. I despair.

Absolute garbage.

What a load of shit today. Atmosphere was appalling and so were we. Warnock needs to sort it out as that was painful to watch.

The expected anti climax ....disappointing today , some of our players anonymous.
Substitutions didn’t change anything really , all a bit desperate at the end.

It was cat and mouse 1st half and we were unlucky not to go ahead with the Camarassa free kick.

We did get lucky with the "penalty" not awarded just before HT and the referee seemed very sympathetic to their team every time one of theirs hit the deck.

That said, we looked very vulnerable defensively and the pace of their side was tough to handle.

Bennett and even Manga seemed to cope quite well, at least initially, but Leicester played little triangles time and again to create space to get in behind us.

Bamba made a number of last ditch tackles but looked very shaky at times and both he and Morrison struggled with their pace.

Arter did okay as did Gunnar & Murphy and Patterson won more than his fair share of headers, but there was little threat to Schmeichel's goal apart from the FK and a brief period before they scored.

Leicester were far more organised than Fulham at the back and this could well be our recurring problem, trying to break stubborn defences down.

Decent first half hour but lost our way after. Leics just a bit sharper and more savvy than us. They dId a good job to nullify Murphy.
Generally I thought our defence coped well. Didn't see the hand ball, interesting to see it on motd.

Thought we started very well, but then just went back into a shell after about 20 minutes. Bamba probably our best player and the only player who would deserve anything over 5/10. If we can somehow keep ourselves relevant by 1st january, we should just throw every penny of whatever our budget is at a striker, no point in dicking about. I actually think when we aren't panicking we can pass it around. Leicester weren't that good today. Can't see anything more than a comfortably win for Brighton next week.

That ref... feck me he was shocking. Absolute disgrace

Great success today on the public relations front. The performance was woeful though. Camarasa against the bar and a surging run into the box from Murphy and, er, that was it. Toilett appeared to be even more bored and lethargic than usual.

I'm not going to be too tough on our players today as the occasion clearly got to the ref and linos as much as the players.

What I was disappointed about, as others have partly noted, were:

- our inability to simply control the ball - the number of times we just sliced it our walked it into touch was painful to watch,
- our inability to play with any shape at all to enable us to press properly
- the number of times we were second best in 50:50 situations was really frustrating. Reid epitomised this. He's very lightweight and is only going to make a good premiership footballer if he is able to use his other skills to make up for his lack of physical presence. Not quite doing that yet and he needs to learn quickly.
- bringing Madine on when we already had Paterson and Ward on. Harris should have been brought on to provide a speed threat and possible supply to the middle.

Today was a weird day all round though so best to just move on and hope normal service is resumed vs Brighton

I dont think the occasion got to the players.

After Maguire went off we were outclassed.

I thought Paterson struggled against The centre half’s today Evans and Morgan. Just couldn’t win the ball as much as he does and that stopped us getting a foothold in the game.

I applaud Paterson’s effort but today wasn’t his day. Hoilett was non existent when he came on. Manga struggled at times. As did Bennet. To summarise we need a right back and striker. Which was the case in January.

Throw in another centre midfield player as well.

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

Warnock absolutely clueless in being able to change it. Just chucking players on willy nilly and hoping for the best. Did Ward even touch the ball?

A Premier League side lumping it up aimlessly to Madine and Patterson. I despair.

Absolute garbage.

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I couldn't make the Fulham game as I was with my son and I saw that people were saying we were excellent and I know the occasion meant we were on a hiding to nothing but as you say, our football is appalling.

We never even attempt to play between the lines and in the second half in particular all our players were just lined up against their last line of defence.

I know our fans are against moving the ball sideways but the whole reason for this is to create overloads for someone like Josh Murphy.

With us we just pass the ball to him and expect him to beat 3 players FFS.

Finally can we put to bed that players in the premier league won't be able to deal with us off set pieces etc.

Every game I've been to this season has shown us to be very ineffective with long throw ins and corners.

Very poor all round today.

I just dont think we are quite good enough for the prem. Our defence is leaky our midfield doesnt create enough and our forwards cant score. We are basically really struggling atm

I think we should relax about today, Leicester won the title two years ago and were able to demonstrate why today with the quality of player they were able to bring on as well as the ball skills their players possessed. For the first 30 minutes they were in trouble but the lino and ref conspired to allow them to get away with a number of things and we were unable to take advantage.

After that they simply outplayed us. We have to move on and try and get some composure back in our game. The one thing that was brought home to me today was the insanity of having Damour, Madine and Harris in the squad ahead of Pilkington and Tomlin. Either of the latter two would have brought so much more to the team in terms of quality.

Finishing the game with Paterson, Ward and Madine on the pitch was exasperating. Ward had to move out to the left wing at one point because we had nobody to deliver the ball into the penalty area.

Cardiff City 0 - 1 Leicester City. Demarai Gray scores the winner as Leicester end traumatic week with three points.

The off-field atttention has played heavy on the shoulders of Cardiff and Leicester in the build up to the Premier League clash between the sides at CCS on Saturday. After the decision was made to play the game the media has focussed on the Leicester reaction to the helicopter tragedy at the King Power Stadium last week.

But Cardiff City had to deal with occasion and they acted and delivered a fitting arena to honour and respect Leicester City, their owner's memory and the lives of those that perished with him.

But with the ceremony and circumstance out of the way Cardiff fell short when it came to matters on the pitch. A Victor Camarasa free kick rattled the bar in an even first half before Leciester also hit the bar but it seems via the arm of Sol Bamba who could have been sent off for stopping a goalbound effort. The half ended 0 - 0 with neither side in control.

But after the break Leicester's pace and movement made them the bigger threat and City's inability to close down balls in the wide area saw a cross fall to Demarai Gray who slotted home to earn the win the football community would be happy with. That is apart from the Cardiff City fans community who left feeling frustrated at the failure in front of goal from a shot shy City side.

Let's be honest, Callum Paterson is not the answer as a striker. Ken Zohore should be embarrassed that he's being kept out of the side by a defender. Gary Madine has shown nothing since a £6m move to CCS.

City are pinning all their hopes on Josh Murphy to create chances but he's ploughing a lone furrow when he looks up to see open spaces and defenders and not a strike force hungry to score goals.

It's now a myth that we are a danger from set pieces and long throws. Very little threat. And with Leicester far more savvy they saw out the game comfortably enough. They also used their influence and intimidation to presure the referee from the first whistle with scenes reminiscent of the way Man Utd used to gang up on the officials.

City are back in the bottom three, no complaints that we are not as good as Leicester, they did win the league two years ago, but disappointed that we are not putting ourselves into positions where we can win games, or at least not lose them.

We are apppearing second best far too often.

It's Brighton at home next week, an early 12:30 ko live on Sky.